Will Bourne, who served as The Village Voice's editor-in-chief for seven months between 2012 and 2013, has returned to the legendary New York City weekly publication at the behest of new owner Peter Barbey.
The news was first reported today by Politico.
Bourne resumes his former position Wednesday, according to Politico. He succeeds Tom Finkel, who served as editor after Bourne’s departure in 2013.
Bourne first joined the Voice in late 2012, but abruptly resigned the following spring when the newspaper’s then-owners allegedly ordered him and other management to cut staff.
After leaving the Voice, Bourne became editor at large at Inc. magazine and later served as executive editor for the National Audubon Society.
The famed New York newspaper that birthed the media category later known as alternative weeklies, The Village Voice was launched in 1955 by five co-founders (one of whom was author Norman Mailer). The publication saw a series of owners in the following decades — Rupert Murdoch among them — before it was purchased by AZ-based newspaper company New Times Media (later Village Voice Media) in 2005.
Besieged by financial woes, the paper later experienced an exodus of key editorial personnel that had been with the publication for decades.
Barbey acquired the Voice in October from Village Voice Media spin-off Voice Media Group. A Pennsylvania-based newspaper publisher, Barbey owns Reading, PA-based daily newspaper Reading Eagle.
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