• New York Observer, Monday, September 17, 2012 3:02 PM

Tony Ortega, editor of the Village Voice, is leaving the paper to work on a book about Scientology, but he was actually pushed out, according to "sources with knowledge of the situation," writes Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke. Village Voice Media has not announced his replacement. Ortega's departure is cited as another example of rough times at the alt-weekly, including the layoff of four editorial staffers and the "legal and political drama due to its online adult classifieds operation, Backpage.com, which has been a crucial source of revenue for Village Voice Media in recent years," she writes.

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