- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Shane Smith is the founder and CEO of VICE, the global youth media brand. One of the industry's most respected visionaries, Smith is also a critically acclaimed journalist, and the host and executive producer for the Emmy winning news series, VICE, on HBO.
Under Smith's guidance, VICE, initially launched in 1994 as a punk magazine, has expanded and diversified to become the world's leading youth media company; operating an international network of digital channels, a television production studio, a record label, an in-house creative services agency, a book-publishing house and a feature film division. VICE recently announced a new TV network in a joint venture with A&E called VICELAND.
VICE's award-winning video content covers news, culture, music, technology, sports and fashion from a unique perspective tailored towards a young international audience often ignored by mainstream media. To syndicate VICE's content globally, Smith established a network of content distribution partnerships with leading platforms, including YouTube, Snapchat, Rogers, HBO, 20th Century Fox, Verizon, and others. VICE's reach has since exploded, with its network of channels reaching hundreds of millions of viewers a month.
Smith has reported from the world's most isolated and difficult places, including North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Liberia and Greenland.
Smith has been awarded numerous journalism and media awards, including the 2014 Knight Innovation Award, two Environmental Media Awards, the Frank Stanton Award for Excellence in Communication, the LA Press Club Award, and more. VICE has also won scores of awards for its groundbreaking reporting, including an Emmy Award for Best Information Series or Special, two Peabody Awards for VICE News, the PEN Center 2014 Award of Honor, the Television Academy Honors for socially conscious programming, and many others.
Smith graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, with a BA in English Literature and Political Science.- IMDb mini biography by: Isabel Evans
- Shane Smith currently works at the Vice offices in Brooklyn and resides in TriBeCa.
- [on Donald Trump] He calls the press the opposition, but that's the press' job. Without free press there is no democracy, it's just propaganda. [2017]
- Online and TV, it's all going to merge. [2017]
- If you are trying to manage out of fear of what will happen, you're not going to do anything new or innovative. [2017]
- [about his business partners] I think they'd like us to be a little more controversial because controversy brings in ratings. They would like to see more Jong-Un Kim [who appeared on the first episode of "Vice" on HBO] in the mix. [2017]
- Having the largest library of millennial IP is important for us. People are looking at us and mimicking what we've done. [2017]
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