Newspaper CEO on Buying the Village Voice: ‘It Just Needs Food and Water’

The new owner of the Village Voice is keen to invest in the storied New York City weekly newspaper, he told Billy Penn on the afternoon that news broke of his acquisition. Peter D. Barbey, the 57-year-old CEO of the Reading Eagle Company, said his plans are to add staff until the weekly is “as big as we need to be. Bigger, definitely bigger. Until we get happy with the way the book is.”