Just days after announcing a $250 million investment from A&E Networks, Vice Media today announced another $250 million investment, this one from the venture capital firm Technology Crossover Ventures. That's half a billion dollars they can use to pay their employees a living wage, theoretically.
Vice UK Is Not as Cool as It Seems, Either
Vice Media, which is still playing footsie with the world's media conglomerates in search of a huge investment, is a global company. We've heard tons of complaints about low pay from their workers in the U.S. Employees in London say it's just as bad there.
Vice and Williamsburg Now Synonymous
Vice Media is the tech bubble. Vice Media is not as cool as you think. Vice Media is about to get very, very rich. But what is Vice, above all? Vice is Williamsburg.
We Will Now Correct a Vice Media Co-Founder's Lie
We would like to briefly correct a lie about our reporting told by Vice Media co-founder Suroosh Alvi in an interview this week.
Vice Reportedly in Talks for $2.2 Billion Deal With Time Warner
Sky News is reporting that Vice Media is currently in negotiations to sell "a major stake in itself" to Time Warner in a deal that would value Vice at $2.2 billion. Perhaps they'll finally make enough money to pay their staff a living wage?
The Single Most Insufferable Response to Our Vice Media Story
Last Friday, we ran a report about poor wages and business practices at Vice Media. Many cast this as a "fight," or took it as an opportunity to choose sides. That's fine. We're used to that. There was one response, however, that we simply cannot let stand.
Working at Vice Media Is Not As Cool As It Seems
Vice Media is one of the hottest media properties in America. It's the counterculture empire that even Rupert Murdoch could love. Vice's founder, Shane Smith, has speculated his company could raise tens of billions of dollars. So why are its employees so broke and pissed off?
Vice Is the Tech Bubble
Vice Media, a company that sells cool kids to corporations for marketing purposes and does good journalism on the side, is a legitimately profitable business. Makes a lot of cash. But is Vice really worth one jillion skillion bazillion dollars? Hmm...
Shane Smith Explains Journalism
Wanna understand the finer points of this whole journalism thing? There is no need to go to a "J-school" or a fancy conference. Just internalize the wisdom contained in this here interview with VICE boss Shane Smith.
James Murdoch’s Daddy Puts Him on Board of Vice Media
It turns out that one point of launching an ostentatiously renegade bad-boy media company is so that one day it can be inherited by an upwardly failing scion. More than a year after resigning from his chairmanship at News International, Rupert Murdoch's son James has found a new position as director of at Vice Media,…
Vice Just Got Super Rich
Vice Media, the parent company of Vice magazine, VBS.tv, and other editorial ventures whose quality content is still tinged by a permanent veil of—well, you know what we mean—is now insanely rich. Are you surprised?
