Village Voice and New Times: Their love is real, dammit
After literally months of rumor and speculation – the kind that top Village Voice brass won’t comment on, certainly – it’s the kind of lede that must feel pretty good, even if the outcome sucks:
The Nation’s two largest alternative newspaper publishers have been in intense negotiations over a merger that would create an 18-paper chain controlled to a significant extent by venture capitalists.
Tim Redmond, the terrier who has been sinking his teeth into this at the San Francisco Bay Guardian, had unearthed the proof: Village Voice Media indeed be merging with the New Times – and they’ve got the draft May 27, 2005 merger agreement to prove it.
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