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The Gotham Group Signs Village Voice Media
Leading Entertainment Management and Production Firm Will Represent Country's Largest Group of Alternative Newsweeklies
| Quelle: The Gotham Group
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - January 28, 2010) - The Gotham Group, a leading entertainment
management and production firm, announced today its worldwide
representation of Village Voice Media, publisher of 14 metropolitan
alt-weekly print publications and 20 online properties.
Village Voice Media, anchored by the company's namesake, Village Voice, in
New York City, is the country's largest group of alternative, metropolitan
newsweeklies. It is dedicated to hard-hitting, high-spirited journalism
and multimedia storytelling.
About Village Voice Media
Village Voice Media is a collection of 20 online properties and 14
alt-weekly newspapers in major metro areas across the U.S., including New
York's Village Voice, the Houston Press, Miami New Times, SF Weekly, LA
Weekly and Denver Westword. Online, in print, and on mobile devices,
Village Voice Media's properties combine music, food and events coverage
with gritty, hard-hitting magazine-style journalism to create the most
powerful city guides in each market. While the focus of the brand is local,
its free classifieds site, backpage.com, partnership with social
recommendation engine LikeMe.Net and national sales force, Voice Media
Group, allow it to extend its reach to a national level. Since 2000,
Village Voice Media stories have won more than 550 national journalism
awards.
About The Gotham Group
The Gotham Group is a multi-faceted management and production company,
representing some of the most creative minds in Hollywood. Gotham boasts a
roster of over 500 top directors, screenwriters, producers, authors,
illustrators, and artists, as well as book and comic book publishers and
animation studios. Gotham represents more source material from major
publishers and comic book companies than any other entity, including but
not limited to works from such clients as Bloomsbury/Walker US, Dark Horse
Entertainment, Penguin Group, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins (U.S. & UK),
Houghton Mifflin/Harcourt, SAF Comics, and Com.x.