The Downfall of Vice News and Media Sustainability

Vice Media was once valued at 5.7 billion dollars - This week it closed its doors. One final episode of the podcast Cyber was released to give listeners a peek into what was going on at Vice. The staff knew something was amiss when the quality of the snacks began to deteriorate. 

The Liberals tabled Bill C-63 to take aim at online hate. If this new bill comes into force it could make some online hate speech punishable by life in prison. 

Host: Jesse Brown

Credits: James Nicholson (Producer), Caleb Thompson (Audio Editor and Technical Producer), Karyn Pugliese (Editor-in-Chief)

Guest: Justin Ling

Further reading: 

• Vice Media Is Basically Dead
• Vice’s cunning, irreverent journalism is dead – and executives with bloated pay cheques helped kill it | Sirin Kale | The Guardian 
• VICE Management Kills Vice.Com, Set to Lay Off Hundreds of Employees - Hell Gate 
• I Was a Heretic at The New York Times - The Atlantic
• C-63 (44-1) - LEGISinfo - Parliament of Canada 
• My First Take on the Online Harms Act: Worst of 2021 Plan Now Gone But Digital Safety Commission Regulatory Power a Huge Concern - Michael Geist
• Opinion: Pierre Poilievre wants big government to protect kids from porn - The Globe and Mail
• Online harms bill puts onus on tech platforms to remove child pornography - The Globe and Mail

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