One-Seventh of Village Voice Media Revenue Comes From Backpage.com

Media critic James Rainey’s latest piece in the LA Times takes on the subject of Village Voice Media and its staunch defense of its adult classified website Backpage.com. The piece is largely a retread of what’s been talked about at length on this site and others for nearly a year. But Rainey does come up with one interesting new factoid. Citing an anonymous VVM executive, Rainey reports that one-seventh of the company’s revenue comes from Backpage.