Village Voice ends print history

New York City’s famous alternative weekly, The Village Voice, is joining the ranks of newspapers NOT publishing print versions.

The Village Voice was founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and author Norman Mailer. It has three Pulitzer Prizes -- Teresa Carpenter in 1981, cartoonist Jules Feiffer in 1986 and Mark Schoofs in 2000.

In 1982 the Voice began domestic partner benefits for gay couples on its staff.

The slide began in 2005, when New Times Media bought the Voice. At least a dozen key leaders were fired or quit by 2012, when Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders and formed Voice Media Group.