• Poynter, Monday, August 20, 2012 3:45 PM

The Village Voice's recent firing of three staffers led to several pieces on its future -- and the future of alt-weeklies as a whole -- which Andrew Beaujon analyzes. "The Village Voice is not dead yet, contrary to reports," is the headline of his post, which looks at a piece by a former Voice staffer beamoaning the tiny staff left (an account contradicted when Beaujon directly contacts the paper's editor), along with reports that audiences for alt-weeklies are aging. Meanwhile, "David Carr writes that 'The version of the Voice that was the "the voice of a city" has not existed for many years,' and that echoes a problem for alt-weeklies everywhere," according to Beaujon.

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