Southern Voice Speaks Up

Following Blade editor Kevin Naff's Wednesday announcement that his team would be launching a new online and print publication titled DC Agenda, the former owner and editor of the Southern Voice together have launched an effort to resurrect the Atlanta-based newspaper that folded last week after owner Window Media and United Media filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

"I was upset for about two hours," Chris Cash, the Southern Voice founder who sold the paper to Window Media in 1997, told The Atlanta Journal Constitutionin an interview published Monday. "That's about how much time I had to be upset before my mind clicked to, 'What now,' which is the most important thing."

As a result, Cash and former Voice editor Laura Douglas-Brown launched SaveSoVo.com. They are seeking donations from Voice readers in order to relaunch an online news publication with a print companion under a different name, since the duo do not own rights to the original Southern Voice title.

"Our vision now is a community-owned, community-led LGBT news outlet that focuses on reporting LGBT issues in Atlanta and beyond," Douglas-Brown writes on the site.