James "Jim" Anthony Larkin (born June 16, 1949) is a Phoenix publisher and journalist, known for his influence in the alternative newspaper industry. He is largely responsible, along with business partner Michael Lacey, for expanding the Phoenix New Times from its origins as an anti-Vietnam War weekly begun in Tempe, Arizona in 1970 into what became the nation's largest chain of alternative weeklies. Known as New Times Inc. and eventually, Village Voice Media (VVM), the 17-paper chain included the Village Voice in New York, the LA Weekly, and the Miami New Times, among others.