Posted on 02/22/2024 2:28:54 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Hours after multiple staffers expressed concern that Vice Media was considering shuttering or gutting its flagship news website following the brand’s sale to a consortium of its former bankruptcy lenders, the CEO of the company weighed in with a memo (below) detailing sweeping change.
Vice Media chief Bruce Dixon confirmed that “several hundred” staffers would be laid off and “we will no longer publish content on vice.com” as the company transitions to a “studio model” to sell its content to other outlets.
Earlier in the day, editors from different parts of Vice met with their staffs and informed them that they have asked management for clarity on the situation but haven’t received a reply. Vice News’ top editor Josh Visser addressed staffers on a midday Zoom and said he had given senior executives of the company, including CEO Dixon, an opportunity to deny rumors the site was shuttering, but he had not heard back, which he described as “very upsetting.”
“Our website and our work being pulled down would be completely reprehensible,” he told staffers. “I cannot even understand any business reasons why you would do something like that.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...
A tragedy of similar scale to that of the sinking of the Titanic.
So sad …..
Cue the Seinfeld, aw, that’s a shame pic.
It makes me cry every time a rabid leftist media propagandist loses their job.
Lol.
Funny story—I know a young leftist guy who went to Journalism school a couple of years ago and told me his goal was to work at Vice.
Oops.
This requires someone to post the the meme of the Boohoo girl.
Thanks for posting some good news in the afternoon.
cant they learn to code...
Every time a Jorno-list loses their job and angle gets their wings :)
““Our website and our work being pulled down would be completely reprehensible,” he told staffers. “I cannot even understand any business reasons why you would do something like that.””
maybe because no one reads your lies anymore, and ya’ll are gonna all be fired in a couple of days anyway ... maybe THAT’S why!
“It makes me cry every time a rabid leftist media propagandist loses their job.”
why? I thought an angel got its wings every time that happened ...
It’s dead, Jim.
“Learn to Code” alert!
That’s the one!
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