Shane Smith Net Worth 2020, Bio, Wiki, Height, Weight, Awards, and Instagram.
Shane Smith Net Worth 2020 – Shane Smith is a Canadian journalist and media executive. He is the Executive Chairman and co-founder of the international media company, ‘Vice Media’.
He also served as CEO of ‘Vice Media’ from the beginning until March 2018.
Bio of Shane Smith
He was born on September 28, 1969, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Shane is currently 49 years old and his birth sign is Libra.
He holds Canadian citizenship and his ethnicity is Irish. He has not mentioned the detail about his parents, siblings, and his childhood.
He joined the Lisgar Collegiate Institute and later attended Carleton University and graduated from there with a degree in English literature and political science.
Then, he went to university in Ottawa and played in local punk bands, and visited Eastern Europe and moved to Montreal.
He along with his co-founders Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes bought ‘VICE’ back after being acquired in 1999 and they moved to Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 2001.
They used to publish print articles based on offbeat alternative culture, but later created news content and social criticism on multiple media platforms in 2006.
The VICE media expanded the digital media on the advice from the company’s creative director Spike Jonze. They made a partnership with Intel in 2010 for The Creators Project and dealt with partners like YouTube, Viacom, and HBO, led by Smith.
VICE started news series with HBO in April 2013, in which Shane Smith and other VICE members cover news storied around the globe. The show was awarded an Emmy for outstanding Information Series or Special for their second season.
VICE dealt with the partnership with Verizon, Live Nation, Spotify, Snapchat and Discover.
He traveled to different countries for the 2006 online TV series ‘VICE Guide to Travel’ and served as a correspondent for VICE.
He took an interview with the politicians including President Obama, former U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner, and former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on December 9, 2016, in which the development of excessive polarization and gridlock, culminating in the 2016 presidential election was discussed.
Height and Weight
Shane stands at a height of 6 Feet 2 Inch or 1.88 m.
Awards
He was awarded the youth magazine ‘Voice of Montreal’ in 1994 with co-founders Suroosh Alvi and Gavin McInnes.
Shane Smith Net Worth
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Ніѕ nеt wоrth іѕ mаіntаіnеd thrоugh thе rеvеnuеѕ gеnеrаtеd bу thе VІСЕ mеdіа grоuр, rеlаtеd аdvеrtіѕіng аnd еndоrѕеmеnt dеаl аѕ wеll.
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Вut hе саn ѕеrvе аѕ а rоlе mоdеl fоr lоng tеrm lіfе gоаlѕ thаt реорlе uѕuаllу рlаn. Ѕhаnе Ѕmіth іѕ аn іnfluеntіаl реrѕоn іn thе mеdіа wоrld аnd wіll соntіnuе tо bе fоr а lоng tіmе.
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