How Vice became 'a fucking clown show'
Vice was once promised to become the brash young voice of news. But wild expenses, shady deals, and founder Shane Smith’s greed kept the newsroom from ever being a sustainable business.
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Vice was once promised to become the brash young voice of news. But wild expenses, shady deals, and founder Shane Smith’s greed kept the newsroom from ever being a sustainable business.
As we survey the rubble that once was the U.S. journalism industry, a common refrain involves lamenting that "online journalism just isn't profitable." But as the recent collapse of outlets like Sports Illustrated and The Messenger illustrate, the real culprit often isn't that journalism isn't profitable, it's that U.S. media is predominantly run by utterly…
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The company, which once enjoyed a $5.7 billion valuation, filed for bankruptcy in 2023 and will no longer publish content on Vice.com.