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Vice magazine was founded in October 1994 in Montreal, Quebec, under the original name Voice of Montreal. Suroosh Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith later bought out the original publisher and renamed it Vice in 1996.
Vice Media filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on the 15th of May 2023, following years of mounting losses and near-annual layoffs. A consortium of lenders including Fortress Investment Group, Soros Fund Management, and Monroe Capital purchased the company's assets for $225 million.
Vice.com stopped publishing new content in February 2024 after CEO Bruce Dixon announced several hundred additional layoffs. Some former Motherboard journalists went on to found a successor outlet called 404 Media.
The three co-founders who shaped Vice into a media company are Shane Smith, Suroosh Alvi, and Gavin McInnes. Dominique Ollivier and Alix Laurent founded the original precursor publication, Voice of Montreal, in 1994.
By February 2013, Vice published 24 global editions with a combined circulation of 1,147,000 copies, including 100,000 in the United Kingdom. The print magazine went on hiatus in 2019 and relaunched as a quarterly in September 2024.
Vice won multiple ASME Reader's Choice awards, including Best Travel and Adventure for its June 2017 issue and Most Delicious for the March 2016 issue. In 2010, Ad Age ranked Vice ninth on its Magazine A-list, making it the first free publication to receive that recognition.