Vice Media

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BuzzFeed had forecast making a profit of about $30 million this year – for the first time in its 14-year history - but is now striving to keep its annual loss below $20 million.
Promise of profits and growth vanishes for digital media publishers

It was supposed to be the year that digital publishers finally turned a profit. After years of cost-cutting, consolidation, lay-offs and missed forec(...)

Alyssa Mastromonaco: the former Obama staffer says the Trump White House is uniquely hard to watch
Obama’s right-hand woman: ‘I want a giant, beautiful nerd to get heard’
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  • April 27, 2019, 06:00

In 2017, Alyssa Mastromonaco published a memoir, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?, about her time working in the Obama administration. Between 2009 a(...)

Advertising group WPP has teamed up with the ‘Daily Mail’ and Snapchat to launch a content marketing agency called Truffle Pig.
WPP teams up with Snapchat and ‘Daily Mail’ to launch digital content agency

Advertising group WPP has teamed up with news publisher Daily Mail and messaging app Snapchat to launch a content marketing agency called Truffle Pig.(...)

Shane Smith, co-founder and chief executive officer of Vice Media, speaks during the TechCrunch Disrupt NYC 2014. Photograph: Peter Foley/Bloomberg
Vice Media boss wins $1m gambling at Las Vegas casino

Shane Smith, the co-founder and chief executive of Vice Media, has taken his place among the high-rollers in Las Vegas after winning $1m at the Bellag(...)

Vice Media co-founder and CEO Shane Smith at the Web Summit in Dublin last October. Time Warner is reportedly in talks to acquire a stake in Vice. Photo: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times
Time Warner in talks to acquire stake in Vice Media

Time Warner is reportedly in talks to acquire a stake in Vice Media, the company that combines punk culture with online journalism. The discussions ar(...)

Shane Smith: “I’m very excited to be back in Dublin and want to visit old haunts.”
Shane Smith: ‘How I went from serving pints in the Baggot Inn to building a $400m fortune'

Shane Smith used to work in the Baggot Inn in Dublin. Now he is worth $400 million (€290 million), has a pub in London, a loft in New York and a mount(...)