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Vice
is a
Canadian
-
American
magazine. It was started by
Suroosh Alvi
,
Gavin McInnes
and
Shane Smith
in 1994 in
Montreal
,
Canada
as
The Voice of Montreal
. It was a magazine for
alternative punk music
and received government funding.
[2]
[3]
It is now an
alternative media
outlet which talks about
lifestyle
, the
arts
,
culture
,
news
and
politics
. When the editors later sought to get rid of their connections with the original publisher Alix Laurent, they bought him out and changed the name to
Vice
in 1996.
[4]
As of February 2018, the magazine's editor-in-chief is Ellis Jones
[5]
[6]
and former
editor-in-chief
for the
UK
, Alex Miller, was appointed to the position of global head of content.
[7]