Most of their advertisements directly involve groups of people gathering, and that is not happening now due to the pandemic. In its 33 years of existence, New Times has been a major news source for Miami, as have dozens of alternative weeklies across the country - like the Village Voice in New York and LA Weekly, which were once owned by Voice. The truth is we will monitor conditions in real time and make decisions accordingly.” If the environment gets worse, if the downturn lasts longer than we’re assuming, if our performance declines, we’ll have to reassess and make further moves. And let’s be frank: They may not be enough. “To be clear, these actions will not make up for the current or anticipated decline in revenues. In a recent letter to employees across the chain announcing the pay cuts, the firm’s CEO, Scott Tobias, wrote: Voice Media owns Miami, Broward Palm Beach New Times, Denver Westword, the Dallas Observer, the Houston Press and Phoenix New Times. And freelance budgets have also been dramatically reduced.
As part of a move to save money across the Voice Media Group chain, which owns New Times, salaries for those full-timers who remain have been slashed by at least 25 percent. And Culture Editor Zach Schlein was laid off Tuesday. Ten former reporters have headed to the Washington Post, the New York Times and The New Yorker magazine in just the last few years.īut in the last couple weeks, two top writers, Manuel Madrid and Jerry Iannelli, have left for other jobs amid fears of layoffs.
It has won hundreds of prestigious awards including a George Polk, a Livingston, and several top national honors from the Investigative Reporters and Editors. New Times cover this week by the inimitable Tom CarlsonĪfter over 30 years, the Miami New Times is facing perhaps its hardest moment ever, mostly due to COVID-19.