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New York Press
Type	Alternative weekly
Format	Tabloid
Owner	Manhattan Media
Publisher	Nick Thomas
Editor-in-Chief	David Blum
Founded	1988
Headquarters	79 Madison Ave., 16th Floor New York, NY 10016  United States
Circulation	105,005[1]
Website: nypress.com

New York Press is a free alternative weekly in New York City. It is the main competitor to the Village Voice. It was founded in 1988, and originally conceived and published as a conservative voice in traditionally liberal New York. The paper developed an impressive following over its first decade, and by 1996 had forced the Village Voice to become a free paper to compete. Recent cover of Portland, Oregons Willamette Week An alternative weekly is a type of weekly newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... David Blum is the editor-in-chief of The Village Voice. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see Manhattan (disambiguation). ... This article is about the state. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Recent cover of Portland, Oregons Willamette Week An alternative weekly is a type of weekly newspaper that eschews comprehensive coverage of general news in favor of opinionated reviews and columns, investigations into edgy topics and magazine-style feature stories highlighting local people and culture. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... The Village Voice is a New York City-based weekly newspaper featuring investigative articles, analysis of current affairs and culture, arts reviews and events listings for New York City. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...

The rivalry with the Village Voice has expressed itself in other ways. Emulating New York Press's own popular "Best of Manhattan" annual feature, the Village Voice later began publishing its own annual "Best of New York" issue. Press editors have written about hiring away writer Nat Hentoff from the Voice. [1] Nat Hentoff (born June 10, 1925) is an American civil libertarian, free speech absolutist, pro-life advocate, anti-death penalty advocate, jazz critic, historian, biographer and anecdotist, and columnist for the Village Voice, Legal Times, Washington Times, The Progressive, Editor & Publisher, Free Inquiry and Jewish World Review. ...

The paper's weekly circulation in 2006 was around 110,000, [2] in comparison with around 250,000 for the Village Voice. [3] The Press touts a Manhattan focussed, controlled distribution system while a good portion of the Village Voice's circulation is outside of the NYC metro area.

The paper was founded by Russ Smith, who published it until he sold it in 2003 to investment group Avalon Equity Partners for around US$3 million. [4] Publishers Chuck Colletti and Doug Meadow became the president and C.O.O., respectively. Smith still contributes his long-running column, which was originally published under the pseudonym "MUGGER" but is now simply called "Mugger" and published under his real name. Russ Smith (b. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Avalon Equity Partners is a New York, New York-based investment group that manages the $63 million private Avalon Equity Fund. ...

Although Smith was nominally editor-in-chief, the actual editor through most of the paper's history was John Strausbaugh. When Smith sold the Press, Strausbaugh was fired and replaced by former production editor Jeff Koyen. Since then the paper has seen a series of editors come and go. Under Smith, the often page-inflated paper was a money-losing operation, rumored to function as a tax shelter for Smith's wealthy family. Today, the paper runs less pages but is rumored to finally be breaking even. John Strausbaugh is an author and journalist who is a regular contributor to the New York Times, The Washington Post, and Cabinet Magazine. ... Writer Jeff Koyen was born in suburban New Jersey. ...

On July 31, 2007, the paper was acquired by Manhattan Media, the owner of Avenue Magazine and a small stable of New York community weekly newspapers. One of those weeklies, “Our Town Downtown,” will be merged with the New York Press.

From April 2003 to July 2004, the Press had a sister publication, New York Sports Express, that was a free weekly devoted to sports. The publishers discontinued it due to insufficient circulation. The New York Sports Express (sometimes abbreviated NYSX) (April 2003 to July 2004) was a free publication first distributed in April 2003 as a sister paper to the New York Press. ...

New York Press earned reprobation in March 2005 for a cover story entitled "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope," written by Matt Taibbi. [5] The cover prompted outraged comments from a variety of New York politicians, [6], and within a few weeks led to the resignation of its then-editor, Jeff Koyen. He was replaced by "interim editor" Alexander Zaitchik. Harry Siegel became the paper's editor in August 2005, bringing along with him three editors and writers (Tim Marchman, Jonathan Leaf and Azi Paybarah), and giving the Press a greater focus on local politics. In February 2006 all four resigned from the paper, after the publisher rejected a planned cover story that would have shown the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons. [7] Siegel was replaced for a short time by Steve Weinstein, former editor of the New York Blade. In 2006, Adario Strange, former editor of The Source, became the new editor. A year later, in 2007, Strange left the paper to return to film directing. Upon his promotion to publisher, Nick Thomas named former arts and entertainment editor Jerry Portwood to editor of the publication. Matthew C. Taibbi (born February 3, 1970), an American journalist and political writer. ... Harry Siegel is a journalist and editor based out of Brooklyn, New York. ... Tim Marchman is a baseball columnist for the New York Sun newspaper. ... Jonathan Leaf is a playwright and journalist based out of New York City. ... Azi Paybarah is a New York-based journalist who focuses primarily on local politics. ... The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after twelve editorial cartoons, most of which depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005. ... The New York Blade is a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) newspaper in New York, New York. ... Adario Strange is a New York based film director, writer and artist. ... The Source is a United States-based, monthly full-color magazine covering hip-hop music, politics, and culture, founded in 1988. ...

Noted memoirist and longtime staff writer, occasional arts and entertainment critic, and author of the nearly two decade old "Slackjaw" column, Jim Knipfel was one of the paper's only mainstays for more than thirteen years. "Slackjaw" ran in the Philadelphia Welcomat for five years before it was picked up by the Press in 1993. Later, Knipfel worked as the Press' receptionist before moving into a staff writer position. In June, 2006, his column was discontinued. Film critic Armond White is another of the paper's mainstays. Jim Knipfel (born 1965), a native of Wisconsin, is the author of a series of memoirs, Slackjaw, Quitting the Nairobi Trio, and Ruining It for Everybody, and a novel, The Buzzing. ... Armond White (born in Detroit, Michigan) is one of Americas leading film critics and has been the chairman of the New York Film Critics Circle since the mid-1990s. ...

During Strausbaugh's editorship, the Press ran regular columns by Alexander Cockburn, Taki Theodoracopolous, Christopher Caldwell, Soul Coughing lead singer M. Doughty (both under his own name and under the pseudonym "Dirty Sanchez"), and articles and reviews by future screenwriter William Monahan, Daniel Radosh, Dave Eggers, Todd Seavey, Paul Lukas, Alan Cabal, future Weekly Standard editor David Skinner, Toby Young, Amy Sohn, Jonathan Ames, "JT LeRoy", Scott McConnell, Kevin R. Kosar, and David Corn, among others. During Koyen's and Zaitchik's editorship, the paper ran regular columns by Paul Krassner, Michelangelo Signorile, and Matt Taibbi, among others. Currently the Press runs regular columns by Amy Goodman and Ed Koch (former Mayor of New York City), among others. Alexander Claud Cockburn (pronounced , co-burn), born June 6, 1941, is a self-described radical Irish journalist who has lived and worked in the United States since 1973. ... Taki Theodoracopulos (born August 11, 1937), better known as Taki, is a Greek born conservative journalist and writer, living in the United Kingdom and the United States. ... Christopher Caldwell is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, as well as a regular contributor to The Financial Times and Slate Magazine. ... Soul Coughing (1992–2000) was a New York-based alternative rock band comprised of Mike Doughty (vocals, lyrics, guitar), Mark De Gli Antoni (samples, keyboards), Sebastian Steinberg (string bass) and Yuval Gabay (drums). ... Michael Doughty (born June 10, 1970), often credited as Mike Doughty or M. Doughty, is a New York City musician, best known for his work as songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist for the band Soul Coughing from 1993 to 2000. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... William Monahan (IPA pronunciation: )[1] (born November 3, 1960) is an American novelist and screenwriter. ... Daniel Radosh is a New York based journalist and blogger whose writing has appeared in several publications, including Details, Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, GQ, Mademoiselle, McSweeney’s, Might, New York Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Playboy, Salon, Slate, Spin, and Talk Magazine. ... Dave Eggers at the 2005 Hay Festival Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. ... Paul Lukas (May 26, 1887 - August 15, 1971) was a Hungarian actor. ... Alan Cabal is an American journalist. ... Toby Young (born Toby Daniel Moorsom Young in 1963) is a homuncular high-flying British journalist, author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, the tale of his disastrous five-year attempt to make it in the U.S. as a contributing editor at Conde Nast Publications Vanity Fair... Amy Sohn (born 1973) is a Brooklyn-based author, columnist and screenwriter. ... Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs. ... Jeremiah Terminator LeRoy was a pen name of American writer Laura Albert. ... Scott McConnell (born 1953) is an American journalist best known as the current editor of The American Conservative. ... David Corn is a political correspondent for The Nation and author of the book as well as the political novel Deep Background and the biography Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIAs Crusades. ... Paul Krassner (April 9, 1932) was the founder, editor and a frequent contributor to the freethought magazine The Realist, first published in 1958. ... Michelangelo Signorile Michelangelo Signorile (born December 19, 1960), is a gay American writer and a national radio host whose program is aired each weekday across the United States and Canada. ... Matthew C. Taibbi (born February 3, 1970), an American journalist and political writer. ... Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! Amy Goodman b. ... Edward Irving Koch (born December 12, 1924; pronounced ) was a United States Congressman from 1969 to 1977 and the Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. ... For a list of the Dutch Director-Generals who governed New Amsterdam (as New York City was called when it was a Dutch-run settlement) between 1624 and 1664, see: Director-General of New Netherland. ...

In the tradition of earlier NY underground papers like East Village Other, New York Press has regularly published cutting-edge comic art, including early work by founding art director Michael Gentile, Kaz, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Mark Newgarden, Ward Sutton, M. Wartella, Gary Panter, Danny Hellman, Tony Millionaire, Christopher X. Brodeur, and others. The East Village Other (often abbreviated as EVO), was a leading underground newspaper in New York City during the late 1960s. ... Kaz may refer to: Kaz Hirai, the President and COO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. ... Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American cartoonist. ... Charles Burns (cartoonist), cartoonist/illustrator Charles Montgomery Burns, fictional character from The Simpsons cartoon This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Mark Beyer (born 1950) is a comic artist who is known for his bleak story lines, often featuring death, disfigurement, depression, and humiliation, which contrast with his childlike, geometric drawing style. ... Mark Newgarden is an American underground cartoonist. ... Ward Sutton is an illustrator and writer born in Minneapolis and based in New York City, whose comic strip, Sutton Impact (formerly Schlock n Roll), has been published in The Village Voice since 1995. ... Michael M. Wartella is an American underground cartoonist. ... Gary Panter (born 1950 in Oklahoma), known to many as the father of punk comics, is a fine artist and a luminary of the post-underground, new wave comics movement that began with the end of Arcade: The Comics Revue and the initiation of RAW. Overview As an early participant... Danny Hellman (born August 2, 1964) is a freelance illustrator and cartoonist nicknamed Dirty Danny. ... Tony Millionaires (1956 - ) Maakies is one of the most popular alternative newspaper comic strips in the world. ... Christopher X. Brodeur is a journalist, artist, cartoonist, political gadfly, and two-time political candidate for the mayor of New York City. ...

Many New York Press alums went on to work at The eXile. The eXile, founded in 1997, is a Moscow-based English-language biweekly free newspaper, aimed at the citys expatriate community, which combines outrageous, sometimes satirical, content with investigative reporting. ...

See also

• Media of New York City
• The eXile

The media of New York City is internationally influential, with some of the most important newspapers, largest publishing houses, most prolific television studios, and biggest record companies in the world. ... The eXile, founded in 1997, is a Moscow-based English-language biweekly free newspaper, aimed at the citys expatriate community, which combines outrageous, sometimes satirical, content with investigative reporting. ...

External links

• The New York Press website
• Example of a New York press article

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