by Emma Davey Vice Media is dead, long live…well, what’s left to take its place, exactly?
Last week, Vice Media announced a massive wave of layoffs and the end of Vice.com. Mismanagement and greed had already whittled down the once unstoppable media conglomerate into a bare-bones operation; this decision effectively killed whatever remained. Once valued at $5.7 billion, Vice declared bankruptcy last year and closed its headquarters at 289 Kent Avenue (only after rewarding its top brass with
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