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The Voice was founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer in the fall of 1955. It has published groundbreaking investigations of New York City politics, as well as reporting on local and national politics, with arts, culture, music, dance, film and theater reviews.
The Voice has published many well-known writers, including Ezra Pound, Henry Miller, Katherine Anne Porter, James Baldwin, e. e. cummings, Nat Hentoff, Ted Hoagland , Tom Stoppard, Lorraine Hansberry, Jerry Tallmer , Allen Ginsberg, Murray Kempton , I.F. Stone, Pete HamillPete Hamill (born 1935) is a prominent American journalist and novelist. He is currently on the staff of The New Yorker''. Hamill was born in Brooklyn as the oldest of seven children of Irish immigrants from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He attended Catholic, Michael MustoMichael Musto is a writer who began his career with The Village Voice. He has since become somewhat of a media gadfly. With the advent of the E! channel he has become a celebrity gossip commentator, and appears on shows of that nature. He is openly gay an and Roger Wilkins .
Former editors have included Dan Wolf, Clay Felker, Tom Morgan, Marianne Partridge, David Schneiderman, Robert Friedman, Marty Gottlieb, Jonathan Larsen, and Karen Durbin.
The Voice's competitors in New York City include the New York PressThe New York Press is the conservative alternative weekly competitor to the Village Voice in New York City. In the late 1990s the publication forced the Village Voice to become a free paper to compete. Until 2004, the paper was edited by Russ Smith who wr, New York ObserverThe New York Observer is a weekly newspaper first published in New York City on September 22, 1987 by Arthur L. Carter, a very successful former investment banker with publishing interests. The Observer focuses on the city's culture, real estate, the medi and Time Out New York . In the late 1990s, competition from the free New York Press forced the Voice to become free.