Titles include The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Seattle Weekly, City Pages (Minneapolis-St. Paul), Cleveland Free Times, OC Weekly (Orange County, CA), and Nashville Scene. Coverage for the weekly newspapers begins with January 2002 and continues forward. In addition, ProQuest is adding Village Voice articles back to the first issue in 1955, with full text and complete indexing.

Village Voice Media is the nation's leading alternative weekly newspaper company. The Village Voice has been the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes, and all papers have earned scores of other awards for reporting and criticism.

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