Vice Media’s ‘Mad Dog’ Departs After Less Than a Year

New York Post: Richard “Mad Dog” Beckman is exiting Vice Media, less than a year after he joined the media company that focuses on a millennial audience. When Beckman joined Vice last May, he was one of several big-name hires by company founder Shane Smith. Beckman, a veteran of Conde Nast and Prometheus Global Media, said he wanted to explore options to run his own company: “My entrepreneurial skills beckoned.”