Thursday, August 18, 2011

RIP New York Press; welcome back Our Town Downtown

Over at the Observer, Kat Stoeffel reports that Manhattan Media is shuttering New York Press and, on Sept. 1, relaunching Our Town Downtown — "a magazine/community newspaper hybrid."

In a telling statement, Publisher Tom Allon said: "Downtown has changed, it's more ripe for a community paper than an alternative paper."

Here's more from Mr. Allon:

"It'll compete with the Voice for hipsters, Downtown Express for community activists, and New York magazine for intelligentsia who care about real estate and their home values."

Uh-huh.

Read the whole Observer piece here.
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5 comments:

  1. dmbreamAugust 18, 2011 at 4:32 PM

    Isn't there some adage about this?

    "When you try to please everyone, you please no one."

    Godspeed, NYP!

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  2. Richard D JamesAugust 18, 2011 at 5:44 PM

    I am actually interested.

    The current identity (basically a "me too" to the Village Voice) wasn't working.

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  3. AnonymousAugust 18, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    So what did work? A snarky, hipper than thou, pile of crap with right wing "libertarian" politics that ushered in and welcomed gentrification?

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  4. clayton 161August 19, 2011 at 11:19 AM

    The NY Press died when John Strausbaugh and Sam Sifton left the paper.

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  5. JanosAugust 19, 2011 at 4:22 PM

    The NY Press was basically unreadable for the last year. Even their movie reviews were terrible.
    They did produce Matt Taibbi in their heyday.

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