PERSON: Shane Smith
Employer
VICE
Position
CEO, journalist
Biography
Shane Smith (born 1970) is a Canadian journalist and web entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the international media company VICE. He gained widespread notoriety in 2006 after his online TV series "VICE Guide to Travel." The New York Times has described Smith as "a cross between a punk rocker and Fortune 500 Executive".
Smith founded VICE magazine along with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes after taking over the youth magazine Voice of Montreal in 1994. After initially publishing print articles based on offbeat alternative culture, VICE moved to creating news content and social criticism on multiple media platforms in the mid-2000s. VICE currently includes former Viacom executive Tom Freston as an advisor and filmmaker Spike Jonze as creative director. Smith has traveled to various places such as North Korea, Iran, Liberia, Russia, and many other countries.
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Smith founded VICE magazine along with Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes after taking over the youth magazine Voice of Montreal in 1994. After initially publishing print articles based on offbeat alternative culture, VICE moved to creating news content and social criticism on multiple media platforms in the mid-2000s. VICE currently includes former Viacom executive Tom Freston as an advisor and filmmaker Spike Jonze as creative director. Smith has traveled to various places such as North Korea, Iran, Liberia, Russia, and many other countries.
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11/21/2015: ‘Eagles of Death Metal’ Speaks to Vice News About the Paris Attacks for the First Time
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09/21/2015: Shane Smith Asks President Obama Is the American Justice System Racist
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03/16/2015: Obama: ‘Michelle and My [Student Loan] Bill Was Higher than Our Mortgage’
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03/16/2015: ‘Aim Before You Shoot’: Obama Blames Bush for Rise of ISIS (clip)
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03/16/2015: ‘Aim Before You Shoot’: Obama Blames Bush for Rise of ISIS
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03/16/2015: Obama: On Issues Young People Care About, Republicans Entirely To Blame
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03/16/2015: Obama: ‘Disturbing’ that James Inhofe Threw a Snowball on the Senate Floor
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03/13/2015: David Carr Confronts Vice’s Shane Smith: ‘Just Because You Put on a F***ing Safari Helmet and Looked at Some Poop Doesn’t Give You the Right to Insult What We Do’
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