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Village Voice vying to take back classifieds

Weekly turns daily, and fights for online local ads The Village Voice has been around for 41 years, and for the latter part of the last century dominated the local advertising and classified market in New York. It was a weekly newspaper that survived on advertising. But these days, the Village Voice, which is comprised of 15 newspapers and five national blogs has watched Craigslist and Yelp, as well as Topix, and other online sites encroach on its bread and butter – the local market. Moreover, the economic downturn has pummeled offline ad dollars. Village Voice’s is stepping up it’s online, albeit local-focused efforts. While at the Digital Hollywood conference in Hollywood, I caught up with Bill Jensen, director of new media of Village Voice, and asked him about ... [ Read more ]

Vator TV | October 29, 2008Watch more videos from Vator TV

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