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Podcast: Profile
Episode: Shane Smith
Description: How did Shane Smith - a hard-partying, tattooed former Ottawa punk rocker - turn a community magazine into an international multi-media empire?Mark Coles looks at the life of one of the founders of Vice, a man whose motto is: "We like our stories to punch you in the face."His company is the fast-growing enfant terrible of digital media. Renowned for its often controversial reports aimed at a young audience disillusioned with mainstream media, it seems that no subject is taboo. Scoops include an interview with a former Liberian warlord and cannibal...