Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
hollywoodreporter.com
Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
1–10 of 86 posts
Re: Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
#2It’s surprising that there are 2500 staff at vice. I thought they mostly used freelancers.
Re: Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
#3It’s surprising that there are 2500 staff at vice. I thought they mostly used freelancers.
Likewise. I mostly consume their content via nightly news on HBO, and an occasional YouTube video. I had no idea they were so large!
Anyone know how this compares to other organizations?
Re: Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
#4Verizon media (aka huffpost, techcrunch and others), Buzzfeed, and now Vice. The beat goes on.
Re: Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
#5[deleted]
Re: Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
#6Verizon media (aka huffpost, techcrunch and others), Buzzfeed, and now Vice. The beat goes on.
your list just show the yearly churn of the news-repost industry (i.e. companies that have zero investigative journalism, needs fresh people to get fresh news sources to repost)
vice (not the site) and buzzfeed news (not regular buzzfeed) are a new beatst in the news industry. they sell tailored pieces (pretty much an improved model that wired used to reborn in the 2000s). for example vice got a huge account promoting gun hobby. go to their YouTube channel and you will see half of their documentaries are touting the fun of owning guns. the site now only exists as a payment hub for those documentaries. buzzfeed (and Verizon media) tried the same but are moving much slower (but you wait when an election is around the corner, you will hear a lot from those)
Re: Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
#7I wonder if the Buzzfeed/Vice/Huffington Post layoffs are related to the appropriations of the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act running out. The US government was subsidizing certain organizations to counter fake news to the tune of $20M.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Countering_F...
Re: Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
#8I wonder if the Buzzfeed/Vice/Huffington Post layoffs are related to the appropriations of the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act running out. The US government was subsidizing certain organizations to counter fake news to the tune of $20M. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Countering_F...
Section 1B seems especially pertinent to beats like (until recently) Buzzfeed's Charlie Warzel's who spent most of his research tracking far-right propaganda on YouTube and 4chan.
Re: Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
#9I wonder if the Buzzfeed/Vice/Huffington Post layoffs are related to the appropriations of the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act running out. The US government was subsidizing certain organizations to counter fake news to the tune of $20M. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Countering_F...
How do you keep abreast of these sort of appropriations that are passed?
Re: Vice Media to Reorganize, Lay Off 10 Percent of Staff
#10Yes, burn the regressive fake news to the ground.