Editing Dallas Observer (section)

== History ==
The'' Observer'' was started in October 1980 by partners Ken Kirk, Bob Walton, Jeff Wilmont, and Gregg Wurdeman as a weekly local arts and cinema review publication. In 1991, the ''Observer'' was bought by [[New Times Media]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vane |first1=Sharyn |date=November 1998 |title=Consider the Alternative |journal=[[American Journalism Review]] |url=http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=912 |access-date=October 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606165524/http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=912 |archive-date=June 6, 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2005, New Times  both acquired  and adopted the corporate name of [[Village Voice Media]].<ref>{{cite news |title=  The Village Voice, Pushing 50, Prepares to Be Sold to a Chain of Weeklies |author= Richard Siklos |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/business/24voice.html |newspaper= [[The New York Times]] |date= 2005-10-24|access-date=2022-03-14 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220119073643/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/business/the-village-voice-pushing-50-prepares-to-be-sold-to-a-chain-of.html | archive-date = 2022-01-19 | url-status = live | eissn = 1553-8095 | issn = 0362-4331 | oclc = 1645522 | df = dmy-all}}</ref> In September 2012, Village Voice Media executives Scott Tobias, Christine Brennan, and Jeff Mars bought Village Voice Media's papers and associated web properties from its founders and formed [[Voice Media Group]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Village Voice Media Execs Acquire The Company's Famed Alt Weeklies, Form New Holding Company|date=September 24, 2012 |url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/23/voice-media-group-acquisition/|publisher=Tech Crunch|access-date=September 27, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Mooney|first1=Michael J.|title=Why the Dallas Observer Was Sold|url=http://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/november/why-the-dallas-observer-was-sold/|access-date=25 January 2017|work=[[D Magazine]]| date=2012-10-24 | issn = 0161-7826 | lccn = sn78000457 | oclc = 4020946 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201120214837/https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2012/november/why-the-dallas-observer-was-sold/ | archive-date = 2020-11-20 | url-status = live | df = dmy-all}}</ref>