If you think "best" and "of" are generic words, free to be used by anyone who wants to award a superlative, you're apparently angling for a fight with...
Sept 24 (Reuters) - Village Voice Media (VVM) will split off from its controversial Backpage.com online advertising site and create a new company fo...
Now, with many more papers and far less revenue, VVM faces a mountain of debt with no discernible exit strategy.
SEATTLE -- A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Friday to block enforcement of a new Washington state law that would require classified adv...
Backpage is a very bad neighbor. It is time for Dallas citizens and the Dallas City Council to join the nationwide fight to demand that Backpage stop making a profit from selling children. Not on our watch. Not our children. Not in our backyard!
In the same place that generations of children learned about freedom, a Backpage.com employee may be accepting fees for ads that facilitate a contemporary form of slavery.
The backlash against Village Voice Media's ownership of Backpage.com continues with a group of high-profile musicians speaking out against the controv...
By Greg Roumeliotis A blind trust in the name of Ann Romney, wife of Republican U.S. presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, was an investor in a fun...
By Greg Roumeliotis NEW YORK, April 2 (Reuters) - A blind trust in the name of Ann Romney, wife of Republican U.S. pre...
Called upon to act by a multifaith clergy coalition of hundreds of rabbis, ministers, imams, priests, and other religious and moral leaders, Village Voice has claimed that this issue is "complicated."
New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof reignited his war against Village Voice Media with a new editorial, "Where Pimps Peddle Their Goods," ...
I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16 and ...
Change.org is getting help from New York council members to pressure the Village Voice to shut down its adult section of classified ads. The social...
Hyperbole only obscures the true issue and damages the movement's credibility. It's critical that as a field that we pay attention to statistics, instead of focusing on media-friendly quick fixes and sensationalized stories.
If Backpage.com can't monitor its ads carefully enough to keep nudity out of its ads, how can anyone believe that it can keep underage people from being offered up for sale?
The perspectives of sex workers are sidelined in the public discourse on sex ads. Of the many politically savvy voices that fill the debate, few belong to the human beings on whose bodies this culture war is being waged.
What if the horror of what happened at Penn State was happening on a larger scale all over the country? What if a Web site made money providing a platform where kids were regularly sold for sex, right here in America?
Websites like Backpage.com legitimize the sex trafficking of minors by giving a prominent commercial platform to their pimps and adult customers. We need a groundswell to end this practice.
When Craiglist closed the adult services section of its website last fall, it left a lot of money on the table. Village Voice Media was the single biggest beneficiary of Craigslist closing this section of the website.
To state as a fact that a strike was "narrowly averted" has little more meaning than if I told you I narrowly averted missing dinner by consuming a sandwich just two hours before bedtime.
Village Voice Media, fresh off its triumph putting Ashton Kutcher in his place for trying to bring awareness to the problem of human trafficking, has directed its crosshairs to an even bigger celebrity and a more vexing issue.
Staffers at The Village Voice are set to strike if they can't agree on contract negotiations by midnight on June 30th. According to the union pre...
Let us join together to create zero tolerance for the buying and selling of children for sex because if even one girl is trapped in sexual slavery, it is one girl too many.
Anti-human trafficking advocates say that explicit advertisements in many of New York City's local publications fuel brothels.
"You have to know when to kick ass and when to kiss ass." That Tweetable maxim was Leonard Stern's principal advice to me during the six years I wor...
