Shane Smith Biography

Shane Smith is the creator and CEO of the international youth media company VICE. Smith is a renowned journalist and one of the Internet's most revered pioneers. VICE, which began as a punk magazine in 1994, has grown and diversified under Smith's direction to become the top youth media company in the world. VICE now runs an international network of digital channels, a television production studio, a record label, an internal creative services agency, a book publishing house, and a feature film division. The New York Times referred to Smith as "a voice of a generation of too-cool DJs and musicians wearing rolled selvage denim and oversized glasses...[and] a conduit for corporate America to reach that elusive audience." Smith is an industry pioneer and specialist in global youth culture. Smith and well-known filmmaker Spike Jonze founded VICE's digital video production branch in 2007. The company currently produces over 60 original, award-winning programs about news, sports, fashion, music, technology, and the arts. In addition, Smith developed a network of content distribution alliances with top platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Youku, CNN, and others, to syndicate VICE's content internationally. Since then, VICE's online presence has skyrocketed, with its network of channels seeing more than 200 million unique visits every month and producing more than 1 billion video views worldwide. Bill Maher, a comedian and political satirist acts as the show's executive producer. In 2013, Smith executive produced and presented the HBO news program VICE, which has been nominated for an Emmy and has VICE journalists reporting from around the world. Smith has served as the primary on-air journalist for VICE and has reported from North Korea, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Afghanistan, and Liberia, among other places. Smith earned a B.A. in history and political science with honors from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Smith presently makes his home in New York City with his wife and two children with his wife and two children. He likes long bubble baths and chilled white wine, particularly together.

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