Vice Media is laying off about 10% of its total workforce, Deadline confirmed Friday. This comes a week after BuzzFeed’s similar staff reduction and is the latest signal of scale-backs in what was maybe a too-fast-growing sector.

CEO Nancy Dubuc revealed the move in a memo to staff Friday. It comes after the last…

EXCLUSIVE: Former Vice chief creative officer Eddy Moretti has launched Unbranded Pictures, and the company has gotten off to a rousing start. It is one of the producers on the Scott Z. Burns-directed The Report, which sold this morning at the Sundance Film Festival in a splashy $14 million world rights sale to Amazon…

UPDATED with Vice statement: More than 75 current and former writers for HBO have signed a petition calling on Vice Media “to sign a strong union contract” with the WGA. The list includes several high-profile scribes including John Oliver, David Simon, Warren Leight, Tom Fontana, Eric Overmyer and Jesse Armstrong.

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In the latest executive shuffle at Vice, chief creative officer Tom Punch has exited to take a similar position at Spring Studios, an ad agency and production company with offices in the U.S., UK and Europe.

Vice, the maverick, Montreal-born brand that was once the darling of the media business, has entered a more chop…

The Walt Disney Co. took a $157 million write-down on its investment in Vice Media, the millennial-focused media company that is undergoing a restructuring.

Disney invested a total of $400 million in Vice three years ago. It was one of several established media companies — together with 21st Century Fox and WarnerMedia…

No one is losing their job at Vice Media right now, but no one is getting one either.

Facing some serious bottom line realities, the semi-saucy brand co-founded by Shane Smith has instituted a hiring freeze and will also cut back staff through a process of attrition, Deadline has confirmed.

Kicked off about a month ago…

Nancy Dubuc, who took the reins at Vice Media this year after a long run atop A+E Networks, a longtime investor in the young-skewing brand, sees profitability ahead and isn’t daunted by the shadow cast by co-founder Shane Smith.

The executive sat down with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times DealBook Conference…

Vice Media president Andrew Creighton has left the media company nearly a year after reports that he had paid a former employee who said she was fired after rejecting his sexual advances.

A New York Times story examining the workplace culture at the boundary-pushing millennial news organization revealed that Creighton…

The Proud Boys, a far-right collective started by onetime Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, have been banned from Facebook and Instagram in an effort to crack down on hate groups.

While the group’s violent objectives have long been clear, the move to block them from social media follows the arrest of several members…

Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc talked about cultivating a culture of trust and respect at the youth-focused media company, following damaging reports last year in which women said they were subjected to unwanted kisses, groping, lewd remarks and propositions for sex.

Dubuc said she has drawn a hard line about the types of…

Vice Media has signed a big SVOD licensing deal with Hulu. The pact includes 15 critically acclaimed Viceland series including Ellen Page’s Emmy-nominated Gaycation and Gloria Steinem’s Woman, as well as popular shows such as rapper chef-Action Bronson’s F*ck, That's Delicious. The series will be available for…

Vice Media has announced She’s Running, a documentary series profiling female candidates running for office during the 2018 midterm elections.

A record 575 women have declared their intentions to run for the House, Senate or governor. The new Vice News documentary series will chronicle this historic moment, following c…