Vice News (stylized as VICE News) is

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's current affairs channel, producing daily documentary essays and

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through its website and

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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

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, though it has bureaus worldwide.

History

Before Vice News was founded, ''

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'' published news documentaries and news reports from around the world through its

channel alongside other programs. ''Vice'' had reported on events such as

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, the

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, the

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n and

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regimes, the

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, 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

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, the same audience to which its parent company appeals. Vice News logo

In November 2014, Vice News launched its French-language version. In October 2015 Vice hired Josh Tyrangiel to run a daily Vice News show for HBO. Tyrangiel had recently left ''

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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 ''

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'', 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 ''

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'' newspaper that will include ''Guardian'' journalists working at Vice's offices in

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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

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. On April 21, 2014, while covering the

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, Simon Ostrovsky, a Vice News reporter was kidnapped by pro-Russian separatist forces and held for three days until being released in

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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 The Russo-Ukrainian War; uk, російсько-українська війна, rosiisko-ukrainska viina. has been ongoing between Russia (alongside Russian separatists in Ukraine) and Ukraine since February 2014. Following Ukraine's Rev ...

; civil war in Iraq; the

; the Western Sahara conflict; the struggles of Afghan interpreters working for the US military in acquiring visas; the prison crisis in the US at

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; protests against the FIFA World Cup in Brazil; Venezuelan anti-government protests; expansion of the

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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;

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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

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, a Canadian television network, of documentaries that highlight Vice News reporting. * ''

'': A newsmagazine television series on

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* ''

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'': A daily evening news broadcast on Vice on TV

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 ''

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'' 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 BBC 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 icestep in and fill in", he says. "People see a sense of fun behind it.

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is very popular, but he's an entertainer. Vice is something similar." Rick Edmonds, media and business analyst at the

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, 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. In a 2013 opinion piece for '' U.S. News & World Report'', editor of the New York-based

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Robert Nolan, stated that Vice's

reporting was "more ''Jackass'' TV series than journalism".

Awards

Vice News has won four

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s for its documentary programs, ''The Islamic State'' and ''Last Chance High'' in 2015, ''Charlottesville: Race and Terror'' in 2017, and ''Losing Ground'' in 2020. In 2020, Emily Green of Vice News jointly won the first

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with ''

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'' and Molly O'Toole of the ''

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'' for their collaboration on "The Out Crowd", an investigative podcast episode on the effects of the Remain in Mexico policy. In 2021, Vice News won the Rory Peck Award for "Uyghurs Who Fled China Now Face Repression in Pakistan", the Lorenzo Natali Media Prize for "Rohingya Brides Thought They Were Fleeing Violence. Then They Met Their Grooms.", the Online Journalism Award for "The Story of...", and two Edward R. Murrow Awards 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

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for "The Shockwave". From 2018 to 2021, Vice News received more News & Documentary Emmy Award nominations each year than any other organization. Vice News was nominated for 23 News & Documentary Emmy Awards in 2021, winning four.

References

External links

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Vice on City (TV network)

The Islamic State (Full Length)
— documentary about the

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