Vice News Chief Subrata De Leaves Amid Layoffs

Subrata De, one of the most high-ranking executives at Vice Media, is leaving as the youth-skewing company.

De was EVP, News and Global Head of Programming and Development.

Her departure comes amid the latest tranche of layoffs at Vice, which is eliminating “several hundred positions”

“We’ve been together in this long goodbye for some time now, but today it’s real for me, as this is my last official day with Vice,” she wrote in an internal memo to colleagues. “Working with you for close to six years, as you braved some of the most dangerous and trying circumstances has been life-changing.”

De re-upped her contract in September 2022 for two years.

The Vice World News brand launched in 2020 and Vice News ran for ten seasons on HBO and Showtime.

De was promoted to the role in 2020, having previously been Senior Executive Producer, Long Form, Vice News. She oversaw all aspects of the company’s news content internationally and leads Vice News’ longform unit, long lead development programming, and editorial staffing.

She was previously Vice President of Newsgathering at ABC.

De, in her note to staff, said it “has been extraordinary to be a part of a grand experiment like Vice News”.

“I will never forget that first day walking into the newsroom. It was liberating. I shed so many long-held assumptions about TV news as we worked together and constantly reinvented how a story can be told. Our work established a direct relationship with the audience, long before this content pillar became a go-to line in presentation decks everywhere,” she added.