HBO announced Monday morning they are canceling Vice Media’s TV show “Vice News Tonight.”
The company also announced its new CEO, Jesse Angelo, who has agreed to work on “finding a new home” for the show.
HBO aired “Vice News Tonight” exclusively, which helped promote the start-up Vice in 2013. The show did some influential work during its brief run. When Vice News correspondent Elle Reeve documented her weekend with the Unite the Right rally organizers in Charlottesville, Va., the report received more than 3.5 million views on YouTube.
Many on social media reacted to the news with sadness and praised the show’s ambitions, including Wall Street Journal reporter Ted Mann, who commended the show for its coverage the 2017 Charlottesville riots.
To this date, the best coverage of the racist convulsion of Charlottesville 2017, and a prescient warning about what more was, and is, to come.https://t.co/0yKUtGyA9a https://t.co/sjUuxHRCTM
— Ted Mann (@TMannWSJ) June 10, 2019
The cancellation of “Vice News Tonight” comes as the company changes its CEO for the second time in two years, following allegations of sexual misconduct and mounting financial struggles.
