David Schneiderman, an editor turned publisher, turned chief executive of The Village Voice, died on Jan. 17 in Edmonds, WA. He was 77.

Named editor in 1978, Mr. Schneiderman elevated The Voice’s journalistic game, diversified a newsroom, and reckoned with an increasingly competitive landscape of alternative publications imitating The Voice’s cutting-edge counter-cultural tone and media coverage, and enhancing The Voice’s commitment to reporting.

He resigned in 2006, worked for a corporate communications firm, Abernathy MacGregor Group, and retired in 2016.