Julia Stoll
Research expert covering TV and video media
The end of vice.com and Vice News - statistics & facts
The end of vice.com marks the end of an era. Once hailed as the darling of digital media and a hallmark of alternative and indie culture – when Vice was not reporting on trends, it was creating them. One person’s clickbait was another’s mantra, and the website’s coverage of drugs, extremism, sex, and politics (often with provocative headlines) sometimes drew criticism. Vice reports and investigations also won the company several awards, with coverage of women’s rights in Afghanistan, the Russia-Ukraine war, and journalists in Mexico on the list of accolades in 2023. But what was Vice all about and why did it fail?
