Voice Media Group® is the largest group of metropolitan newsweeklies in the U.S., publishing papers in eleven of the country’s most vibrant cities. VMG was created in 2012 when a group of company executives purchased the publications from the previous owners, Village Voice Media Holdings. The company's namesake Village Voice in New York City was founded in 1955, and introduced the notion of free-form, high-spirited and passionate journalism into the public discourse. As the nation's first and largest alternative newsweekly, the Voice is the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, and today maintains the same tradition of no-holds-barred reporting and cultural coverage that it first embraced more than fifty years ago.
Though many of the country's alternative weeklies continue to be known for their agenda-driven approach to news, VMG remains true to a different vision. VMG papers emphasize strong writing and solid reporting and are averse to protecting sacred cows. That commitment to journalistic fundamentals has only deepened over the years. As a result, while an increasing number of daily papers shorten stories and hire consultants to tell them what to print, VMG papers thrive by cultivating source networks, generating truly original story ideas, and digging into stories rather than skating across their surface.
Becoming part of the Voice Media Group team is a chance to join world class talent - individuals who produce professional content, design & develop innovative products, and deliver exception results for our advertisers, users, and partners.
Reach out to us and find out how you can become part of a forward leaning digital media company.
Voice Media Group® is the largest group of metropolitan newsweeklies in the U.S., publishing papers in eleven of the country’s most vibrant cities. VMG was created in 2012 when a group of company executives purchased the publications from the previous owners, Village Voice Media Holdings. The company's namesake Village Voice in New York City was founded in 1955, and introduced the notion of free-form, high-spirited and passionate journalism into the public discourse. As the nation's first and largest alternative newsweekly, the Voice is the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, and today maintains the same tradition of no-holds-barred reporting and cultural coverage that it first embraced more than fifty years ago.
Though many of the country's alternative weeklies continue to be known for their agenda-driven approach to news, VMG remains true to a different vision. VMG papers emphasize strong writing and solid reporting and are averse to protecting sacred cows. That commitment to journalistic fundamentals has only deepened over the years. As a result, while an increasing number of daily papers shorten stories and hire consultants to tell them what to print, VMG papers thrive by cultivating source networks, generating truly original story ideas, and digging into stories rather than skating across their surface.
Becoming part of the Voice Media Group team is a chance to join world class talent - individuals who produce professional content, design & develop innovative products, and deliver exception results for our advertisers, users, and partners.
Reach out to us and find out how you can become part of a forward leaning digital media company.
Voice Media Group's tradition of in-depth reporting and insightful cultural coverage is alive and thriving in the digital age. On our desktop and mobile offerings you'll find long-form print features alongside timely blog posts, sweaty nightlife photos and cutting-edge calendar listings. Whether you're into food, art, music, news, film or all of the above, we've got you covered.
Page views per year
800 million
Downloads
700K app downloads
Active users per month
14 million
Social media
1.5 million Social followers/ likes, 16k events syndicated to foursquare weekly
My Voice Nation user profiles
2 million
Registered email users
1.35 million
Take everything Voice Media Group does in print and online, condense it into a smartphone, and you have VMG mobile products. Our robust mobile websites give you the full content from our desktop sites - nothing is limited just because you are viewing it from a mobile device.
City guides in each market bring our events and concert calendars into easily accessible apps for both iOS and Android, and give you access to daily news as well. Our BestOf app is great for travel or getting to know your city better, with years of award winners in dining, shopping, entertainment and more. And the Voice Daily Deals app gives you purchasing power on the go.
Happy Hours, the USA's premier happy hour guide, shows all of the food and drink specials going on near you.
City app that is your essential guide to local news, music, restaurants and events. Our easy-to-use menu helps you decide what to see and where to eat, and lets you know what's going on in your city.
Condensed version of our professional desktop content optimized for Mobile. Accessible on all web-enabled phones through the internet browser.
View thousands of the best local photo galleries and party pictures from across the country.
Voice Media Group's journalistic passion isn't just felt in our print editions. Our websites publish dozens of daily blog posts, and contain a full complement of restaurant and location listings, slideshows, and concert and events calendars. We're a one-stop shop for anyone looking to learn a city from top to bottom.
We provide SEO and schema-focused “on-page” optimization of your organic presence to drive clicks to your sites and visitors to your physical locations.
We understand mobile and tablet, and will improve your reach and relevance within Google + Local so you can be found when people are on the go.
We’ll utilize a series of paid search providers to produce qualified leads, a process which may include all top search engines as well as social networks and distributorship points. We can target Facebook users who are in our email opt-in program (as well as yours) and the look-alike audience we have created that matches our users’ likes to drive leads.
We can monitor, manage and engage your community through your social presence (Facebook, Foursquare, Twitter and Google+), fulfill customer service requests and inquiries online, and manage your online reputation (more than 150 sources are monitored 24/7).
We create and host easy-to-navigate websites using only the latest HTML5 responsive-design technology, increasing engagement on mobile and tablet experiences.
Voice Media Group's email offerings connect our most engaged readers with our best stories and promotions. As a reader, you get the news and reviews you care about the most, whether that's food, music, film, arts, deals or happy hours. As an advertiser, you get access to a core audience that knows the scene but is always looking for more. Join our 1.35 million subscribers and stay connected.
Print is far from dead. And Voice Media Group's 1 million weekly circulation shows it. When it was founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer in October of 1955, the Village Voice introduced free-form, high-spirited and passionate journalism into the public discourse. The Village Voice is alive and kicking, and that same spirit is in every one of Voice Media Group's eleven publications.
Our writers and editors produce some of the nation's finest investigative journalism, taking top honors in national award contests with their projects and special reports. Weekly restaurant sections are the go-to source for the latest local restaurant reviews, Best Of winners and listings. The nation's liveliest criticism can be found in our music sections, with interviews and in-depth features from the world of hip-hop, rock 'n' roll and DJ culture. And don't forget our calendar listings, the most comprehensive and informative way to plan your week.
Voice Media Group's eleven weekly newspapers and websites are iconic institutions in their communities, and are known for a patented mix of investigative reporting, magazine-style feature writing, thoughtful arts and culture coverage, and bare-knuckle blogging. Our reporters specialize in developing sources and digging deep to give readers in-depth analysis and smart perspective.
The eleven publications of Voice Media Group regularly break stories that make waves nationally. In January 2013, for example, Miami New Times published a major three-month investigation by managing editor Tim Elfrink revealing a connection between major-league baseball players and a controversial "anti-aging" clinic that was in the business of selling performance-enhancing drugs. Confidential clinic records obtained exclusively by Elfrink included the names of ballplayers such as New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez — and provided ample evidence that baseball's steroids problem is far from over.
Each year, Voice Media Group writers and editors compete in the nation's most prestigious journalism contests, going head-to-head against reporters from major websites, daily newspapers, and national magazines. In the past decade, VMG journalists have won more than 580 national awards, including the first Pulitzer Prize awarded for restaurant criticism, and more winners and finalists in the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists than any other news organization in America. The company also has dominated the weekly category of the Investigative Reporters and Editors contest, and has won more than thirty first-place awards from the National Association of Black Journalists.
The Voice Media Group fellowship program presents an unparalleled opportunity for young writers who wish to pursue a career in magazine-style journalism.
The purpose of the program is to identify writers who have the potential to become full-time staff writers, but who, through no fault of their own, lack the experience to be hired into such positions.
Writing fellowships are six-month jobs. They pay $500 per week, without benefits. Most fellows hired either have a master’s degree or at least a year of practical journalistic experience outside school. However, in some instances, fellows may be hired immediately after completing their bachelor’s degree.
Voice Media Group fellowships are writing and reporting jobs. Our fellows don’t do busywork, compile listings, go for coffee, or complete "research" for more experienced writers. Instead, they work intensively with an experienced editor/mentor to learn the basics of long-form news and feature writing. During the six-month fellowship period, they produce three magazine-style cover stories, as well as making daily contributions to their publication’s news blog.
The fellowship program is a performance-based meritocracy. Fellows do not compete against each other for jobs, and there is no guaranteed wash-out rate. Instead, upon completion of their fellowship, fellows who have performed up to Voice Media Group standards are given first priority for any entry-level staff writing jobs available around the company.
Since the Voice Media Group fellowship program began in 1999, 83 people have accepted and completed fellowships. Of that number, 54 — or 60 percent — have been hired as staff writers.
Perhaps the best way to gauge the success of the Voice Media Group fellowship program is to read stories written by our present or former fellows. Here is a selection:
In addition to competing successfully in regional and local writing competitions, Voice Media Group fellows have been recognized in national writing competitions pitting them against the country’s major newspapers and magazines.
McCoy's "The Battle of Remington Lane" told the bizarre story of two multimillionaires feuding over an opulent Houston mansion. Could an oil-drilling magnate known as "the most powerful man in town" bully an affluent surgeon into handing over the $8.3 million jewel he'd just purchased fair and square? McCoy set out to find out.
Snyders' "Moles Wanted", along with two other news stories written in advance of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, earned him first-place for election coverage in the 2009 AltWeekly Awards. It was an especially sweet victory for Snyders given his arrest by police while covering demonstrations at the RNC.
"Alone No More", about star hoopster Sandora Irvin's troubled path to the WNBA, earned Kix a first-place award for sports reporting in the 2006 NABJs.
Barbassa was a national finalist in the 2000 Eugene S. Pulliam National Writing Awards for her story "Children of the Storm."
Barbassa was a national finalist in the 2000 Eugene S. Pulliam National Writing Awards for her story "Children of the Storm."
For her story "The Fall of the House of Rubashkin," about the tribulations of a kosher meatpacker, Dwoskin was named a finalist in the Livingston Awards for Young Journalists, the nation?s premier contest for reporters 34 years of age and younger.
Bliss took second-place in the 2001 National Education Awards for Education Reporting for her story "A Scout For Life."
Gay's "Eat Me" told how the USDA was making life difficult for boutique beef merchants, and earned him two national awards: a first-place in the 2005 James Beard Foundation Journalist Awards, and a Bert Greene Award.
It's getting hard to keep track of Warner's plaudits. His "Pot of Gold", about international coffee freaks, was a 2008 National Finalist in the Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Awards; his "You Do the Meth", which described the effects of meth raids on families, was a finalist for the 2008 DART Award; his "The Good Soldier", about the first American G.I. to be charged with cowardice since 1968, was a 2009 DART finalist and also won first-place for feature writing at the 2009 AltWeekly Awards.
"The People Under the Bridge", written by Thompson shortly after he arrived in Miami, was the 2008 First-Place Winner in the Local Circulation Weeklies category of the Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) Awards.
"Band of Outsiders", the story of a Florida couple who had adopted 57 special-needs children, earned Witt a finalist slot in the 2007 Livingstons alongside Maher.
"Ace of Spaides", which detailed St. Louis rapper Spaide R.I.P.P.E.R.'s rise from obscurity, won first-place in business reporting in the 2007 National Association of Black Journalists Awards.
Fleischer's story "Navahoax," which revealed a remarkable scandal in the publishing industry, was a national finalist in the annual Investigative Reporters and Editors contest.
Like his Denver colleague Warner, Maher has received multiple awards. He took second-place in investigative reporting in the 2009 AltWeekly Awards for "State of Emergency", about problems with the City of Denver's ambulance system. His "The Impersonator", the bizarre true-life tale of a man who successfully impersonated a paramedic, got him named a 2007 finalist in the Livingston Awards. "The Magic Number", which revealed that identity fraud on the part of illegal aliens was disproportionately affecting Hispanic Americans, was a 2008 National Finalist in the Missouri Lifestyle contest.
For his story "Gambling on Iraq,", which exposed the dangers faced by ordinary American citizens signing up for war-zone jobs in Iraq, Serazio was named a 2005 Livingston finalist.
Mathieu was a finalist in the 2002 GLAAD Media Awards for her article "Positive Love", and took first-place in the 2003 Alternative Newsweekly Awards "Media Reporting" category for the story "Reality TV Bites."
At the Village Voice in New York we offer a range of NYC-specific fellowships and internships, all of which are explained in greater detail at its internship microsite.
We have now hired all of our fellows for 2014. We are accepting applications for 2015 fellowships. Those interested in applying should send a cover letter, resume and five best clips to:
Andy Van De Voorde
Executive Associate Editor
Voice Media Group
969 Broadway
Denver CO 80203
andy.vandevoorde@voicemediagroup.com
No campus visits are scheduled at this time.
Our eleven markets and two national blogs collectively have over 2.5 million followers on Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, and Tumblr. To follow, please go to one of our city sites and click on "Follow us." Chime into the conversation, check into our events or feed us content ideas. We would love to hear from you. Follow our Voice Media Group corporate news in any of our channels below. Curious about partnerships around social? Give our Community Architect Kevin Spidel a shout out on Twitter @kspidel.
Voice Media Group publications host the leading food, music, art and beer related events in their cities. From annual music festivals to intimate art soirees and weekly beer tastings, these events are considered entertainment staples by locals. Voice Media Group events embrace local culture and celebrate each city's unique character.
Voice Media Group markets support the local music scene by hosting a variety of music events, from annual festivals to monthly intimate concert series.
Making its home at New York's legendary South Street Seaport, the Village Voice's 4Knots Music Festival will be back for its second year in 2013. 4Knots highlights emerging artists on today’s music scene and takes on added charm thanks to its location in a historic district featuring some of the oldest buildings in Lower Manhattan. In keeping with the maritime theme, the name of the festival refers to the speed of the East River at the South Street Seaport.
One day. Twelve stages. 150 local bands and some of the hottest national talent on the scene. That's the Westword Music Showcase presented by Miller Lite, which returns on June 22, bigger and better than ever. Tickets are on sale now for this increasingly popular event, which takes place in Denver's scenic Golden Triangle neighborhood and, in addition to the music, features food and libations from local vendors.
Voice Media Group celebrates local culinary culture and talent by hosting a range of food and wine events throughout the year.
LA Weekly presents Plate, our 5th annual food and wine event featuring a selection of LA's best and most eclectice restaurants hand picked by LA Weekly's Squid Ink food critics.
Iron Fork, held for the 7th consecutive year, is THE event for the St. Louis Foodies. Ian Froeb, RFT’s Food Critic, has hand selected 45 of his favorite restaurants to serve a signature dish at the event. Guests will also enjoy an exciting chef and mixologist competition, live music, drinks, and more!
The Village Voice is proud to present our sixth annual Choice Eats Tasting Event. Our resident food critics have scoured New York’s culinary landscape and combined their tastiest picks from several years of unearthing the five boroughs’ best-kept secrets. The event features 50+ restaurants, sweets, and complimentary beverages.
Food, fashion, art and culture collide at Voice Media Group Artopia events. All elements are brought together for one night of celebration.
Houston Press Artopia is a celebration of local art in all forms. It is an evening of culture, fashion, art, music and food. Entertainment includes 3 musical acts, 2 fashion shows, 2 live dance performances and art works from over 25 local artists.
An upscale celebration that incorporates food, drinks, art, music, theater, and fashion into one exciting evening! Attendance: 1,200. Audience: ages 21-35.
The newest addition to the Voice Media Group event line up, Beer tasting events are held annually or in some markets, monthly.
The 16th annual New Times "Original" Beerfest, presented by Isle Casino, returns on April 6, 2013 from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Beerfest, the oldest and largest in the area, offers guests 100+ local, international and craft beer, live music performances, interactive games, good food, and great times. College basketball championship games will be displayed on a large Jumbotron screen with high-tech sound systems in the basketball viewing pavilion.
The 21st annual City Pages Beer Festival is a highly anticipated event featuring a variety of domestic, imported, specialty, craft, seasonal and micro brewed beers, live music and food vendors. Attendance: 3,000+. Audience: adults 21-30.
VMG product solutions are aligned with award-winning content across mobile, desktop and print platforms, and offer advertisers premium placement opportunities.
In verticals ranging from local news to arts and entertainment, advertisers are placed in the most relevant editorial context to reach their target audience.
For more information on our local brands:
Village Voice Media announces the launch of Voice Local Network, a local sales network that provides quality web sites with high-cpm, geotargeted ads from local restaurants, bars and clubs, retail and services.
It’s print, web and street. It’s everywhere they go to plan where they’re going, and it’s the only way you’ll catch up with them in the top 50 markets.
This isn’t a random group of unrelated media. Voice Media is a carefully constructed network of like content that comes at your audience from all angles with dedicated account teams in Manhattan, Chicago, LA and Phoenix. We can create, execute and manage your campaign. Along the way, we track it to see how well it performed in any and all of our 50 markets. If you want to reach fun, active people who go out and spend money, Voice Media is the smart turnkey alternative.
A full service approach:
VMG product solutions are comprised of award winning content across mobile, desktop, and print platforms and offers advertisers premium placement opportunities. Covering verticals from local news to arts and entertainment, advertisers are placed in the most relevant editorial content to reach their target audiences. Our partners are passionate about keeping their users happy and continue to work with VMG because they know all advertising experiences will be positive, engaging, and relevant.
New York City (July 8, 2013) – Voice Media Group announced today that veteran editor Tom Finkel will take the reins of the Village Voice later this summer.
For the past ten years Finkel has helmed VMG’s Riverfront Times in St. Louis, where his staff regularly brings home national awards in writing and design. Five RFT stories are finalists in this year’s National Association of Black Journalists newspaper contest, including Finkel’s “Plenty of Guilt to Go Around,” an investigation of a murder conviction cowritten with Tony D’Souza. [More] [Direct Link]
Denver, CO (July 1, 2013) — Voice Media Group announced today that Amy Nicholson will join the staff as a full-time film critic for its eleven newspapers. She will be based in Los Angeles at LA Weekly.
Nicholson has long been a contributor to both LA Weekly and numerous film-focused publications. She will work closely with VMG principal film critic Stephanie Zacharek, who is based at the Village Voice in New York. [More] [Direct Link]
New York, NY (March 4, 2013) — The Village Voice today announced plans to relocate its offices to Maiden Lane in Lower Manhattan, a move from its present location at 36 Cooper Square in Greenwich Village. The move is planned for mid-August. [More] [Direct Link]
DENVER, CO (February 25, 2013) — Voice Media Group (VMG) today unveiled the first major mobile refresh under its new ownership, launching new city apps for its leading weekly newspapers across 11 markets. The new apps replace existing local city apps and serve as a guide to local news, music, restaurants and events. The company also announced the debut of Pictureshow, a native iPad app providing users access to thousands of professionally curated photos from the local publications in a seamless slideshow experience. [More] [Direct Link]
DENVER, CO (January 30, 2013) — Voice Media Group (VMG) is delighted to announce the appointment of Jessica Lustig as the Deputy Editor of The Village Voice.
A magazine veteran, Lustig began her career at The Atlantic and The Paris Review before working as an editor at publications including Time Out New York; New York Magazine, where she was a Senior Editor and ran the front-of-book Gotham section; and Details, where she spent three years as Articles Editor and five more as a contributing editor, assigning and editing cover stories, features, style columns, and cultural essays on everything from Justin Timberlake and sex education to gays in the military and African warlords. [More] [Direct Link]
DENVER, CO (January 22, 2013) — Voice Media Group (VMG) today announced a strategic data syndication partnership with Foursquare. Over the coming weeks, VMG's Voice Places event data will be syndicated on Foursquare for more than fifty categories in eleven markets, enabling the Foursquare community to check into events, explore trending events, and find nearby events in those cities. Voice Media Group will also provide its well-respected "Best Of" content to Foursquare in those eleven markets, as well as awarding city-specific, leveled badges based on "Best Of" check-ins. [More] [Direct Link]
Denver, CO (January 9, 2013) — Voice Media Group today announces the sale of SF Weekly and Seattle Weekly. Specifically, SF Weekly LP has closed on the sale of SF Weekly to the San Francisco Newspaper Company, which is the publisher of The San Francisco Examiner and the San Francisco Bay Guardian. [More] [Direct Link]
Denver, CO (January 9, 2013) — Voice Media Group today announces the sale of SF Weekly and Seattle Weekly. Specifically, Seattle Weekly LLC has closed on the sale of Seattle Weekly to Gloria Fletcher, President, Sound Publishing, which is the publisher of 38 newspaper titles in Washington state. [More] [Direct Link]
DENVER, CO (November 16, 2012) — Voice Media Group announced today that Will Bourne will join the staff of the Village Voice as its Editor-in-Chief.
Bourne was most recently an Editor-at-Large of Inc. Magazine in New York. Prior to this, Bourne oversaw editorial development for digital startup Semi-Linear and served as Executive Editor of Fast Company from 2005-2010, where investigative work he produced won numerous honors, including the Cunningham award from the Overseas Press Club, a Polk, and several Loeb and National Magazine Award nominations. Fast Company was on the Ad Age Hot List three years running during his tenure at the magazine. [More] [Direct Link]
DENVER, CO (November 9, 2012) — Village Voice Media and its successor company Voice Media Group announced today the settlement of a trademark infringement lawsuit against Yelp.
On October 25, VVM filed a civil complaint against Yelp in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. That suit accused Yelp of trademark infringement arising from Yelp's recent redesign and use on its website of the federally registered trademarks "Best of Phoenix," "Best of Dallas," "Best of Denver," "Best of Houston," "Best of St. Louis," "Best of Miami," "Best of San Francisco," "Best of the Twin Cities," "Best of Seattle," and "Best of Broward/Palm Beach." [More] [Direct Link]
DENVER, CO (October 31, 2012) — Voice Media Group announced today that Scott Foundas will join the staff of theVillage Voice as its principal film writer. [More] [Direct Link]
DENVER, CO (September 24, 2012) — New holding company Voice Media Group today announced that it has signed an agreement to purchase the publishing and related sales properties owned by Village Voice Media Holdings, LLC. The purchase includes the iconic Village Voice Media alternative weekly newspapers and their associated websites, as well as the national advertising arm of the company. [More] [Direct Link]
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