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Vice magazine was founded in October 1994 under the name Voice of Montreal. The publication was created by three young men in Montreal to help social welfare recipients gain work experience through a Quebec government job creation program.
Suroosh Y. Alvi, Gavin McInnes, and Shane Smith were the original founders who changed the name to Vice in 1996. Richard Szalwinski acquired the magazine and relocated the operation to New York City in 1999.
Vice magazine switched to a quarterly publication schedule in 2018 and was put on hiatus in 2019. The magazine relaunched its print edition in September 2024 with a goal of reaching 20,000 subscribers within a year.
Vice Media formally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on the 15th of May 2023. In February 2024, CEO Bruce Dixon announced additional layoffs and that the website Vice.com would no longer publish content as the company restructured under new ownership.
Gavin McInnes left the publication in 2008 citing creative differences as the primary issue. In an email communication dated the 23rd of January, McInnes explained that he no longer had anything to do with Vice or VBS or DOs & DON'Ts.