HBO has cancelled “Vice News Tonight” and the former CEO of the New York Post has been tapped to “create expanded platform opportunities,” according to a Monday report from the Hollywood Reporter.
The premium cable channel had partnered with Vice Media for seven years.
“It’s important to remember that Vice News is an entire business division, not just one show on one platform with limited U.S. distribution,” Vice News CEO Dubuc wrote in a memo to her employees. “And in a time of media consolidation, this is a business that is growing.”
“Vice News Tonight” was widely praised for its documentary on the Charlottesville white nationalist rally in 2017.
The show is scheduled to wrap up in September.
Dubuc also hired Jesse Angelo, the former CEO and chairman of the New York Post, to oversee Vice’s digital, news and TV content.
This is too bad. The show was hardhitting journalism, well produced, and with appeal to millenials.
Sad about this. The show featured intelligent young, gutsy reporters. More often than not, I’d find myself asking “why don’t the networks do quality, in depth reporting like VICE does?” Perhaps most impressive was that their reporters on international assignments often spoke the language of the country they were in, which I’ve never seen on cable or network news. This show featured the exact kind of quality reporting that we need now to cut through the pap most often served up as news these days. It’s a terrible shame that they’re taking it off the air.
I guess HBO finally got tired of spending money to send hipsters in skinny jeans halfway around the world to to just talk to the first person they found on the street. Then give you the most superficial reporting of current events that somehow simultaneously conveyed practically no new information yet took so much time you only got two a week.
CEO of the Post. Hmm.
It appeals to me and my husband and we are in our 70s.