Joe Biden Chillaxed With His Countercultural Peers at Vice
Anyone taking a stroll down by the water in Williamsburg today might have noticed a swarm of police cars, ambulances, black SUVs and SWAT team personnel. What was all the fuss in the middle of the day? Joe Biden was at Vice.
"Perhaps the surest sign of Vice's impact is its influence on culture: It is perceived by many (including marketers at top agencies and brands) as the arbiter of cool."
Here Is Vice Media's Salary Breakdown
Vice Media, now valued at two and a half billion dollars, made a ton of money this year. How much do its employees make? Here is Vice's most detailed information yet.
Brooklyn Venue Owner Explains What it's Like to Be Pushed Out By Vice
Five days before Thanksgiving, the adored Brooklyn indie rock venue Death By Audio shut its doors after seven years. When DBA's founders announced its demise in September, they did not explain why they were suddenly closing, and they declined comment when we stated what everyone knew to be true: that they were being…
Shane Smith Gave Vice Employees a Million Bucks
Last weekend, Vice had a huge concert party to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Before the party, zillionaire Vice boss Shane Smith handed out ca$$$hh money.
Earlier this year, Vice Media explored the possibility of taking over the CNN-owned cable network HLN. At an employee meeting this week, CNN boss Jeff Zucker reportedly said Vice boss Shane Smith is "an asshole." Wrong, Jeff—you're both assholes.
Vice Editor Called for Boycott of "Scumbag" Vice Partner Live Nation
Last week, multibillion-dollar media megashark Vice announced that it has "teamed up with concert giant Live Nation" to create a new music site, launching next year. You may be interested to learn that an editor at Vice's other music site absolutely hates Live Nation, his company's new business partner.
Here's a Look at One of the Beloved NYC Venues Vice Is Pushing Out
As we told you last month, major media company Vice (whose average salary is allegedly $70,000 a year), will be displacing several beloved institutions in the South Williamsburg area in order to build out its own 75,000-square foot new office space. The first to close, on November 22nd, is DIY music venue Death By…
Shane Smith Has Problems
"To live is to suffer," Nietzsche said. "To survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
What Is Vice Media's "Average" Salary?
Vice Media boss and enthusiastic brand ambassador Shane Smith yesterday publicly derided the "sour grapes" of also-ran website Gawker.com, declaring that his company's average salary is very high. Let's explore that further.
No One Wants To Say It, But Vice Is Displacing Brooklyn Institutions
Yesterday, the longtime Brooklyn music and art venue Glasslands announced that it would be closing on New Year's Day 2015. Why? Because the marketing conglomerate Vice Media has already started building its huge new office near the property where Glasslands now stands, and will eventually get to Glasslands itself.
Emails: Vice Requires Writers to Get Approval to Write About Brands
At most media organizations, there's a "Chinese wall" between editorial and advertising operations—each department operating independently of one another. At Vice Media—marketing shop first, editorial brand second—that's not quite how it works, according to a series of emails published to Twitter by recently departed…
Here Is the VICE Style Guide
Many media outlets have style guides, which governs all matters related to writing style. We got a copy of Vice's style guide. Here it is.
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.
Insider Video Shows How the Islamic State's Shitheads Brainwash Kids
VICE News has dropped part two of its mesmerizing five-part behind-the-scenes look at the "Islamic State," and it is a maddening inside look at how the militant movement sweeping Iraq and Syria recruits young boys, uses UN humanitarian aid, and hides away women.
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.
