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''New York Press'' was a free alternative weekly in New York City, which was published from 1988 to 2011. During its lifetime, it was the main competitor to ''The Village Voice''. It was originally conceived and published by founder Russ Smith as a conservative voice in a traditionally liberal New York; later it became less political.〔http://www.observer.com/2011/08/new-york-press-is-dead-long-live-our-town-downtown/〕 The Press strove to create a rivalry with the ''Village Voice'', and took credit for forcing the ''Voice'' into becoming a free paper in 1996, although almost all other alternative weekly newspapers had long since gone that route. Emulating ''New York Presss own popular "Best of Manhattan" annual feature, the ''Village Voice'' later began publishing its own annual "Best of New York" issue. ''Press'' editors wrote about their unfruitful attempt to hire away writer Nat Hentoff from the ''Voice''.〔(New York Press - THE EDITORS - Resolutions for the Unresolved )〕 Liz Trotta of ''The Washington Post'' compared the rivalry to a similar sniping between certain publications in the eighteenth-century British press, such as the ''Analytical Review'' and its self-styled nemesis the ''Anti-Jacobin Review''. The paper's weekly circulation in 2006 topped 100,000,〔(New York Press | Association of Alternative Newsweeklies )〕 compared to about 250,000 for the ''Village Voice'',〔(The Village Voice | Association of Alternative Newsweeklies )〕 but this total fell to 20,000 by the end of the paper's run. The ''Press'' touted a Manhattan-focused, controlled distribution system while a good portion of the Village Voice's circulation is outside of the NYC metro area. The print edition of ''New York Press'' was discontinued on September 1, 2011, with its online edition an aggregate of Manhattan Media's other publications. The print edition of ''Our Town Downtown'' was resumed in its place, after originally merging with ''New York Press''.〔(New York Press Is Dead, Long Live Our Town Downtown ), Kat Stoeffel, ''The Observer'', October 18, 2011.〕 NYPress.com is currently owned by Straus News. ==An independent weekly (1988–2002)== The paper was founded by Russ Smith, who published it until he sold it in late 2002. Smith was assisted throughout this period by John Strausbaugh. Smith wrote a column starting with the first issue, which was published under the pseudonym "MUGGER"; it mostly focused on media coverage of politics, as well as restaurant reviews and personal anecdotes. At some point Smith began running the column under his own name, though still titled "Mugger"; it ran in the ''New York Press'' until 2009. During Smith's editorship, the ''Press'' ran regular columns by the radical Alexander Cockburn, the conservative Taki Theodoracopolos, the future ''Weekly Standard'' editor Christopher Caldwell, Soul Coughing lead singer Mike Doughty (both under his own name and under the pseudonym "Dirty Sanchez"), Adam Mazmanian, Todd Seavey, Paul Lukas, occultist Alan Cabal, Mistress Ruby, J. R. Taylor, Zach Parsi, CJ Sullivan, Dave Lindsay, Spike Vrusho, Ned Vizzini, and Daniel Radosh.〔 Many ''New York Press'' writers and editorial staff from this time have gone on to achieve some renown. Examples include the author and screenwriter William Monahan, author Dave Eggers, future ''Weekly Standard'' and ''Humanities'' magazine editor David Skinner, author and raconteur Toby Young, ''New York'' magazine contributing editor and author Amy Sohn, author Jonathan Ames, theater critic Jonathan Kalb (two-time winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism), author Ben Greenman, faux-memoirist "JT LeRoy", American Conservative magazine editor Scott McConnell, writer Kevin R. Kosar, future ''New York Times'' editor Sam Sifton, and ''Mother Jones'' Washington Bureau Chief and novelist David Corn, among others. According to writer Jim Knipfel, the "Golden Age of the ''Press''" occurred in the years 1996 and 1997, and that "between 1995 and 2000, there was nothing like (''Press'' ) anyplace". He describes the ''NYPress'' as "a ratty, underground version of those early years at ''Esquire''".〔(Who Walk In Brooklyn » Blog Archive » Jim Knipfel: A Swell Looking Babe )〕 After "The City Sun" film critic Armond White joined the staff in 1997, New York Press became renown for its film coverage by three regular critics. This practice was imitated by "The New York Times" in 2000 with its short-lived experiment having a trio of first string critics. In the tradition of earlier NY underground papers like ''East Village Other'', ''New York Press'' also regularly published cutting-edge comic art, including early work by founding art director Michael Gentile, Kaz, Ben Katchor, Charles Burns, Mark Beyer, Mark Newgarden, Ward Sutton, M. Wartella, Gary Panter, Danny Hellman, Tony Millionaire and others. Ballpoint pen artist Lennie Mace was also among the regular contributing illustrators. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「New York Press」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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