#Vice media jobs series#
We are NOT exiting the news business, but we are changing the shape of VICE News to position the whole Company for long-term opportunities and improve how we deliver important, ground-breaking journalism well into the future.Īs part of this process, we’ve decided to streamline VICE News and make reductions in roles across our global News team to focus on our growing digital video business and our News documentary and series production business for VTV and distribution partners worldwide. To be incredibly clear, VICE News is core to VICE Media Group and fundamental to our business. We are transforming VICE News to better withstand market realities and more closely align with how and where we see our audiences engaging with our content most. In response to the current market conditions and business realities facing VMG and the broader news and media industry, we are moving forward on some painful but necessary reductions, primarily across our News business.
#Vice media jobs full#
See the full email to staff from Bruce Dixon and Hozefa Lokhandwala below: The Wall Street Journal reported last week Vice had discussed closing Vice World News if it did not find a buyer within weeks. Vice has been trying to sell itself and in February received $30m in debt financing. The planned cuts to Vice News come within one week of the closure of Buzzfeed News in the US, and further job losses at Insider, ABC News, including to data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight, and the layoff of all staff at pop culture title Paper Magazine.
We are NOT exiting the news business, but we are changing the shape of Vice News to position the whole company for long-term opportunities and improve how we deliver important, ground-breaking journalism well into the future.”Ī Vice Media Group spokesperson said they were not able to comment on how many jobs are being put at risk across the global news team as a result of the plans.ĭixon and Lokhandwala said Vice News would “accelerate” its transition onto the “platforms where its biggest audiences are”, including Youtube, Tiktok, Twitch, and its documentary programming for streamers such as Netflix and HBO Max.
“To be incredibly clear, Vice News is core to Vice Media Group and fundamental to our business.
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