Vice Media has canceled “Vice News Tonight,” announcing Thursday that the news program’s final airdate will be May 25.
The move comes amid company-wide layoffs at Vice Media and a strategic refocus on digital video and news documentary verticals.
“We believe this strategic focus strongly positions VICE’s incredibly important news coverage for the future,” co-CEOs Bruce Dixon and Hozefa Lokhandwala wrote in a staff memo Thursday.
At the top of their announcement, Dixon and Lokhandwala cited the “current market conditions and business realities facing VMG and the broader news and media industry” as they join a growing list of media companies to implement layoffs over the last year — a list that most recently includes the shuttering of BuzzFeed News.