carla griffin wrote:Don't know if it's been mentioned here yet or now but it seems that Jonathan Blue has bought The Voice. (maybe sometime this past summer)
It'll be interesting to see what kind of plans he has for it but I doubt it will remain the same cozy little neighborhood paper that's it's been for years.
I'm not sure I mentioned it, but yes, ownership of The Voice changed hands maybe six months ago? It's been a while.
It's so far back in the past that few people remember it, but I worked at the Voice when I was just a youth, before going to The Louisville Times. At that point it was also under a new owner, a guy who was going to turn it into a serious, hard-hitting, investigative paper that would turn the East End upside down and grow into a daily as the suburbs grew.
It was a lot of fun for a few years, and we really did make some waves in St. Matthews, but the guy burned through his money in just a few years and made a lot of enemies.
Of course, that was (gasp) thirty years ago, and the 'burbs have changed a lot. So has the competition, with a much weaker daily newspaper downtown now. So maybe Blue could do something like that and make it work.
I'll have to say, though, that based on my very limited contact with the one or two monthly dining columns and one monthly wine column I provide for them, I haven't noticed any major changes from where I sit.
