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I had to take a look and those estimates were wildly optimistic. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/inside-vice-media-shane-smith.html https://nymag.com/i
by criddell 4y ago
I had to take a look and those estimates were wildly optimistic.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/inside-vice-media-shane-smith.html https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/inside-vice-media-sh...
Near the end is this:
> But the underlying driver of Vice’s success has always been the close connection between its editorial work and its work for brands.
I’m not sure their great investigative journalism was ever self-sustaining.
- jcrubino 3y agoWars end and it must be difficult to convince Simon Ostrovsky and Ben Anderson to stay on or even captain their own ship in the fleet let alone get Morris to do something other than pharmacopia.