Vice News soft-relaunches website and announces Adobe partnership

11 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · May 6

Founder Shane Smith is reviving the brand with his podcast, new video segments and reporting from Morocco around Africa Lion, with no new staff hired yet.
The pared-down model centres on social platforms, freelancers and sponsored journalism, with Adobe Acrobat's PDF Spaces used to show source documents alongside reporting on defence technology and security.
Vice News follows Vice's 2023 bankruptcy and a broader digital-media downturn, replacing its former global, big-budget operation with intermittent coverage tied to Smith's show and selective collaborations.

Is Vice's freelance-first model the future for news, or a final surrender to Big Tech and corporate influence?

With brand partnerships as its main revenue, can Vice News truly deliver on its promise of nonpartisan journalism?

Will embedding raw documents in Adobe's AI platform build trust, or just create a new form of curated truth?