Co-founder Shane Smith is taking up a brand new position at Vice. The Wall St. Journal stories that he has been appointed editor-in-chief of Vice Information.
“It’s your child that you simply constructed, that you simply birthed,” Smith stated to the WSJ of his new duties, which come within the wake of a number of years of rocky monetary instances on the firm.
Smith will reportedly host a number of reveals, beginning with Vice Information: The Reality? a video podcast that can characteristic talk-show host Invoice Maher as a recurring visitor. Smith stated the present will report info freed from political bias and expose misinformation, and can air on Maher’s podcast community and Vice TV.
The WSJ says Smith will even create content material on the corporate’s social-media channels.
Vice exited the day-to-day information enterprise earlier this yr and is concentrated on long-form documentaries.
Smith blamed social media platforms for siphoning off Vice’s advert income.
Final yr, Fortress and different lenders took over Vice for $350 million.