Vice Media’s Shane Smith Fast Becoming ‘Media Folk Hero’

Variety: “Shane Smith knows he’s living dangerously, and he doesn’t give a damn,” writes Peter Bart. “In his role as a producer and host of the ‘Vice’ TV series on HBO, he is committed to ‘irreverence and unorthodoxy,’ and he won wide praise recently for a startling piece about breakthrough cancer cures. In his role as a corporate CEO of Vice Media, meanwhile, he is pledged to orthodoxy — making money. And he is fast becoming a media folk hero for aggressively leading a print company into the frenzy of the digital and mobile universe.”