VICE Exiting Online News, Axing “Several Hundred Positions”

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Employees at VICE were informed that the media group is stepping back from online news and preparing a round of heavy layoffs.

On Thursday (February 22), VICE News CEO Bruce Dixon sent out an internal memo informing employees that the media company would no longer be publishing on its flagship news site. “It is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously,” Dixon wrote. “As part of this shift, we will no longer publish content on vice.com, instead putting more emphasis on our social channels as we accelerate

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