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Vice expands Josh Tyrangiel’s role, will lay off around 15 staffers

Josh Tyrangiel is being promoted at Vice Media to oversee the company’s entire news division, as part of a reorganization that will see around 15 Vice News digital producers, writers and editors laid off in New York and Los Angeles, a source familiar with the plans told POLITICO.

Tyrangiel will oversee Vice News, the weekly HBO Vice News show, and the daily Vice News show, which is expected to premiere later this year on HBO. Tyrangiel will aim to connect the disparate news divisions in order to create a more cohesive product, the source said. He was originally hired by Vice last year to lead development of the daily HBO program.

According to a tweet from Vice News foreign correspondent Harriet Salem, the entire editorial team in the United Kingdom was laid off, plus two foreign correspondents, including Salem.

Vice also plans to open up new bureaus in San Francisco and Hong Kong in the coming months and expects to hire more staffers in the coming weeks.

Last month, Tyrangiel announced a slew of big-name hires, including NBC News veteran producer Madeleine Haeringer as executive producer of the new daily HBO show as well as New York Times assistant editor Ryan McCarthy as editor-in-chief of Vice News and media reporter Ravi Somaiya as tech correspondent.

"The plan in place will expand Vice's news offerings across digital and TV, continue the recent of wave of newsroom hires, add additional foreign bureaus, and marshal the company's existing news divisions into one cohesive powerhouse," a Vice spokesperson told POLITICO.

Some of the employees laid off were members of the Writers Guild of America-East union. A representative for the union declined to comment.

