Rockie Horoscope [VV]

Earlier: The Dean is Dead

Update: Actual statement after the jump. From what we're hearing, the memo is posted on the Voice's office bulletin board, where someone has scrawled "LIES" across it.

The Village Voice has undergone a staff restructuring intended to both
streamline its internal operations and to reconfigure the editorial
department to place an emphasis on writers as opposed to editors. This
involved the layoff of eight employees: five editorial employees and
three employees in the art department. Those layoffs took place today.
Painful though they may be in the short term, these moves are consistent
with long-range efforts to position the Voice as an integral
journalistic force in New York City.

As part of these efforts, the Voice has already increased its arts
coverage. Those additions include a greatly expanded calendar section,
the hiring of an additional full-time staff film reviewer, a larger
music section, the new art column "Best in Show" by R.C. Baker, and a
larger theater section that features more reviews and, for the first
time, complete and comprehensive theater listings. These steps will
culminate with the hiring of additional writers over and above existing
staff after the arrival of incoming editor-in-chief David Blum on
September 12.