Meet The Guy Who Just Bought The 'Village Voice'

Meet The Guy Who Just Bought The 'Village Voice'

If you're The Village Voice, a legendary newspaper that has fallen on hard times, you could do worse than to be sold to a deep-pocketed newspaper lover who's been reading you since the 1970s.

Meet Peter D. Barbey.

He's no Rupert Murdoch, the 83-year-old media baron and News Corp. chairman who owned the Voice for a memorable stint between 1977 and 1985. But Barbey's an affluent ink-stained wretch all the same.

One side of the 58-year-old's Pennsylvania-based family has been publishing newspapers since the first edition of The Reading Adler rolled off a Gutenberg-style printing press in 1796. (The modern-day descendant of that title is The Reading Eagle, of which Barbey serves as president and C.E.O.)

The other side of his family controls the publicly-traded lifestyle clothier VF Corporation (Nautica, Jansport, Wrangler, Timberland, Lee, Vans, etc.) and is ranked no. 48 on Forbes' list of America's richest families.

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