Vice", le magazine montréalais sulfureux, se lance, avec succès, dans les reportages TV.
(…) From its start as a naughty and scabrous magazine in Montreal, Vice has always had international ambitions and says it currently has dozens of foreign bureaus and over 4,000 contributors. Other journalists working in conflict zones say that they have been amazed at the firepower Vice now brings to a story, with big crews and extensive equipment.
In early 2010, I wrote a column about Vice in which Shane Smith, one of the founders, suggested that he and his band of insurgents were building “the next MTV.” And then there was a promise to become “the next CNN” — outrageous claims at the time, but they are becoming truer every passing day.
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Being the crusty old-media scold felt good at the time, but recent events suggest that Vice is deadly serious about doing real news that people, yes, even young people, will actually watch.
Last year, Vice gained a share of infamy by getting access to the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and the notoriously secretive country he leads through a caper involving Dennis Rodman and the Harlem Globetrotters, a stunt that drew attention, invective and clicks. In March, Vice christened Vice News as a separate entity and joined with YouTube on a news channel. Almost immediately, the Vice reporter Simon Ostrovsky began filing remarkable dispatches from Ukraine and was, for his trouble, kidnapped in April. (He was freed after a few days.)
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Reportage de Vice:
The Islamic State (42.31)
The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria.