Vice Media taps ex-Post publisher Jesse Angelo to lead news
Vice Media just got its biggest shake-up since CEO Nancy Dubuc joined its ranks a year ago.
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The Brooklyn-based media company tapped former New York Post publisher Jesse Angelo as president of global news and entertainment, overseeing Vice’s news, digital and TV operations.
Separately, Vice said HBO has canceled “Vice News Tonight,” and that the half-hour weekday show’s creator Josh Tyrangiel is departing as Vice’s executive vice president of news.
Angelo, who will report directly to Dubuc, will focus on growing Vice News’ digital content.
“Jesse is a news pioneer and has built an incredible career by successfully expanding the world of publishing into wider forms of distribution through a multitude of platforms, including digital, social, audio and television,” Dubuc said.
Dubuc lauded Vice’s “run” with HBO — despite the fact that it is coming to an end — and said Vice is looking to launch news shows on new platforms. “Vice News Tonight” will end in September when Vice’s deal with HBO is up.
The millennial-skewing media firm built its brand with considerable help from HBO. Vice’s hard-partying executive chairman and co-founder Shane Smith struck a deal with HBO in 2013 for a news magazine series called “Vice.” The scrappy, in-your-face, hour-long weekly made headlines in its first season when it sent Dennis Rodman to North Korea.
The show won two Emmys and spawned documentary specials on a range of topics from global warming to cancer research. It also made way for the launch of the daily news show “Vice News Tonight” in 2016.
At the time, Smith tapped Tyrangiel, an aggressive editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, to oversee the creation and execution of the show. Smith said of Tyrangiel at the time that “Josh is an angry young man who wants to shove it up their asses.”
But the brash Smith would resign in 2018 amid reports alleging a top-down sexist culture at Vice, prompting the hiring of Dubuc, a former A+E CEO. Meanwhile, HBO got a new corporate overlord in AT&T, which has cleaned house in recent months.
In February, “Vice” was canceled on HBO as Vice Media said it was cutting 250 employees, or 10 percent of its workforce, worldwide. The same month, HBO CEO Richard Plepler stepped down. According to sources, Plepler had been close to Tyrangiel and championed their partnership.
Angelo comes to Vice after spending two decades at News Corp’s New York Post. The exec left the company as publisher and CEO and chief of digital advertising solutions for News Corp in January. Angelo joined The Post in 1999 as a business reporter. As an exec, he launched a TV unit, New York Post Entertainment, and created syndicated entertainment show “Page Six TV,” which will end after two seasons.
Angelo, who will be based in Vice’s Brooklyn headquarters, starts his new gig on June 24.
