Brian Calle

Brian Calle, the publisher of LA Weekly, bought The Village Voice in December 2020 and revived its dormant website in January 2021. Copies of The Voice, fresh off the press and still free, appeared on newsstands and in street boxes in April 2021. He plans to publish a print issue about four times a year, he added, meaning that a famed alt-weekly is now an alt-quarterly. The end goal is to publish monthly. Mr. Calle said he had not appointed an editor in chief, but was having conversations with people as he rebuilt the newsroom. R.C. Baker, a longtime Voice writer, has taken the role of senior editor. Mr. Calle was previously an opinion editor at The Orange County Register in California and a vice president of the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank, and his tenure at LA Weekly has been marked by boycotts led by former writers for the publication and a lawsuit filed by an investor.