Vice News (stylized as VICE News) is
Vice Media
Vice Media Group LLC is an American-Canadian digital media and broadcasting company. , the Vice Media Group included five main business areas: VICE.com (digital content); VICE STUDIOS (film and TV production) VICE TV (also known as VICELAND); V ...
's current affairs channel, producing daily documentary essays and
video
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through its website and
YouTube
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channel. It promotes itself on its coverage of "under-reported stories". Vice News was created in December 2013 and is based in
New York City
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, though it has bureaus worldwide.
History
Before Vice News was founded, ''
Vice
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'' published news documentaries and news reports from around the world through its
YouTube
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channel alongside other programs. ''Vice'' had reported on events such as
crime in Venezuela
Crime in Venezuela is widespread, with violent crimes such as murder and kidnapping increasing annually. In 2014, the United Nations attributed crime to the poor political and economic environment in the country—which, at the time, had the sec ...
, the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is one of the world's most enduring conflicts, beginning in the mid-20th century. Various attempts have been made to resolve the conflict as part of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, alongside other ef ...
,
protests in Turkey, the
North Korea
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n and
Iranian
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* Iran, a sovereign state
* Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran
* Iranian lan ...
regimes, the
Uyghur genocide
The Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other ethnic and religious minorities in Xinjiang that is often characterized as genocide. Since 2014, the Chinese government, under the ...
, and the
Syrian Civil War through their own YouTube channel and website. After the creation of Vice News as a separate division, its reporting greatly increased with worldwide coverage starting immediately with videos published on YouTube and articles on its website daily.
In December 2013, Vice Media expanded its international news division into an independent division dedicated exclusively to news and created Vice News. Vice Media put $50 million into its news division, setting up 34
bureaus worldwide and drawing praise for its in-depth coverage of international news. Vice News has primarily targeted a younger audience comprised predominantly of
millennials
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, the same audience to which its parent company appeals.
In November 2014, Vice News launched its French-language version.
In October 2015 Vice hired
Josh Tyrangiel
Josh Tyrangiel is an American journalist. He was previously the deputy managing editor of ''TIME'' magazine and an editor at ''Bloomberg Businessweek''.Stephanie Clifford (November 17, 2009"Josh Tyrangiel Named Editor of BusinessWeek"/ref> In Ju ...
to run a daily Vice News show for
HBO
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. Tyrangiel had recently left ''
Bloomberg Businessweek
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'', where he was reported to be "a divisive figure who was both admired and despised during his six years there." Tyrangiel named Ryan McCarthy, formerly an assistant editor of ''
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'', as editor-in-chief of Vice News.
In May 2016, it was announced that Tyrangiel had also been given control of the weekly Vice on HBO show as well as Vice News. As the announcement was made, Tyrangiel promptly laid off much of the news staff.
In an interview given the previous week, Vice Media founder
Shane Smith called Tyrangiel "a murderer," foretelling a "bloodbath" in digital media.
On May 24, 2016, a change in leadership at Vice News resulted in the laying off of some 20 editorial and production staff members.
That June, Tyrangiel touted various new hires he had brought aboard as part of his team.
In December 2016, it was announced that Vice News had entered into a partnership with ''
The Guardian
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'' newspaper that will include ''Guardian'' journalists working at Vice's offices in
East London
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Etymology
As in other languages, the word is formed from the f ...
and contributing to the two HBO television programs currently on the air. It will also include allowing ''The Guardian'' access to Vice's video production skills with content distributed to its millennial-skewed global audience.
Reporters
Vice News had more than 100 members of its reporting and editorial staff in 35 bureaus around the world including
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
,
Toronto
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...
,
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
,
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...
,
Mexico City
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,
São Paulo
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,
Los Angeles
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,
Istanbul
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,
Moscow
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,
Beijing
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, and
Kabul
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. On April 21, 2014, while covering the
Russo-Ukrainian War
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,
Simon Ostrovsky
Simon Ostrovsky (russian: Симо́н Остро́вский; born ) is an American documentary filmmaker and journalist. Best-known for his coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War for ''VICE News'', he reported extensively on events that unfolde ...
, a Vice News reporter was kidnapped by
pro-Russian separatist forces and held for three days until being released in
Sloviansk
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.
Programming and content
Since its creation, Vice News has covered emerging events and widespread issues around the world. Every day it publishes a daily news capsule called "News Beyond the Headlines" where it briefly covers four daily stories which did not receive much coverage by other mainstream news outlets but it still considers important. It also publishes daily articles on its website on a variety of world current events, along with maintaining a Vice News Wire where it displays wire reports from around the world.
It has several prominent past and ongoing documentary series including:
Russian military intervention in Ukraine;
civil war in Iraq; the
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is one of the world's most enduring conflicts, beginning in the mid-20th century. Various attempts have been made to resolve the conflict as part of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, alongside other ef ...
; the
Western Sahara conflict
The Western Sahara conflict is an ongoing conflict between the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic/ Polisario Front and the Kingdom of Morocco. The conflict originated from an insurgency by the Polisario Front against Spanish colonial forces ...
; the struggles of Afghan interpreters working for the US military in acquiring visas; the prison crisis in the US at
Salinas Valley State Prison
Salinas Valley State Prison (SVSP) is a California state prison located north of Soledad, in Monterey County, California, adjacent to the Correctional Training Facility (aka Soledad State Prison).
Facilities
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;
protests against the FIFA World Cup in Brazil;
Venezuelan anti-government protests; expansion of the
Islamic State
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;
protests in Ferguson, Missouri; the
Syrian Civil War; the militarization of America's police forces and
Central American refugees fleeing street gangs borne in
American prisons to cross the American border;
global warming
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and the evidence of the
melting of Antarctica's glaciers; and the build-up of military forces of Russia with Scandinavians assisted by the American military.
Television series
* ''Vice on City'': A weekly television series on
City
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, a Canadian television network, of documentaries that highlight Vice News reporting.
* ''
Vice
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'': A newsmagazine television series on
Showtime (TV network)
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* ''
Vice News Tonight'': A daily evening news broadcast on
Vice on TV
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Reception
The Vice News YouTube page has 7.55 million subscribers as well as more than 1.8 billion views in total. and in August 2014, was described by ''The Guardian'' as one of the fastest growing channels on YouTube.
Lara Pendergast, deputy online editor at the UK magazine ''
The Spectator
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It is owned by Frederick Barclay, who also owns ''The ...
'' argues that Vice News gets its strength and popularity by getting younger audiences to become more and more interested about international news in a way that traditional media has not. "Its videos may fail every rule in the
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impartiality book, but they are brilliantly edited and, often, utterly compelling. Vice News has found young, fearless foreign correspondents to serve a youthful audience who are bored stiff by traditional outlets but are quite prepared to watch videos on their mobile phones."
"Vice's brand image marketing as an edgy, hip outlet have helped drive its popularity with young people", says media critic Charles Johnson. "Mainstream media is not trusted by a lot of people, and rightly so, so they
step in and fill in", he says. "People see a sense of fun behind it.
is very popular, but he's an entertainer. Vice is something similar."
, critiques Vice News' reporting as "raw and tasteless sometimes" and more akin to personal essays than balanced journalism. Other critiques mention that its work is more affiliated with entertainment than hard-hitting news.
than journalism".
. In 2020,
'' for their collaboration on "The Out Crowd", an investigative podcast episode on the effects of the
for "Rohingya Brides Thought They Were Fleeing Violence. Then They Met Their Grooms.", the
s for "Say Her Name: Investigating the Death of Breonna Taylor" and "Life Under Bombs: On the Frontlines of Fighting in Azerbaijan". In 2022, Vice News won the
nominations each year than any other organization. Vice News was nominated for 23 News & Documentary Emmy Awards in 2021, winning four.