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VICE MEDIA LAUNCHES FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND MULTIMEDIA PROJECT PRODUCED ENTIRELY FROM USER-GENERATED CONTENT

The new weekly digital series includes podcast and video versions of each episode, retelling the biggest stories from the people who lived them

Unnarrated. Unfiltered. World events told through the recordings of those who experienced them firsthand.

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BROOKLYN, NY (OCTOBER 30) – Today VICE ​ Media Group announced the launch of Source ​ Material, an innovative and gripping multimedia ​ project from VICE available now on YouTube and all the places you get your podcasts, with eight episodes dropping weekly starting October 30. Combining video and audio storytelling, Source Material is produced ​ ​ entirely from user-generated content, telling the world’s biggest stories in the most unfiltered way possible: directly from the recordings of those who lived it.

With reports ranging from war zones to wildfires, the series is presented without a host, allowing the audience to get a raw look at news events from the people who lived the headlines. Each episode will be released as both an in-depth original podcast and a dynamic short film, produced uniquely for each medium, so the audience can experience the event in two ways.

“VICE News is famous for our boots-on-the-ground reporting that brings our audience directly into the story,” said Jesse Angelo, President, Global News and Entertainment, VICE Media Group. “We are constantly thinking of innovative ways to deliver our and Source Material brings the audience straight to the firsthand sources themselves—unfiltered and unvarnished. Cellphone videos, live streams, CCTV, dash-cams, and user-generated content are increasingly part of how we consume the news, and this documentary series shows a new way to tell stories in a world where almost everything is captured on camera.”

The ambitious multimedia series launches today with the premiere episode bringing audiences aboard two of the world’s largest cruise ships at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. The episodes provide a firsthand look at crew members' lives as they find themselves stranded at sea. With new episodes launching each week, Source Material will feature episodes on the shooting at Yaya’s BBQ in Louisville in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests this summer; the Australian wildfires; Georgia's Ware State Prison riot; the Syrian civil war; the Las Vegas shooting; and more.

Building off the success of VICE News in the U.S, VICE World News is a newly-launched content hub from VICE Media Group, producing hundreds of hours of international television, digital and audio news programming for a global audience. The premium documentaries, docu-series and original podcasts will focus on the core issues that so define VICE's content: extremism, climate, drugs, privacy, politics, inequality, and race.

Source Material video series is directed by Ian Bell with from Alex Megaro. Executive ​ producers are Vivek Kemp, Shawn Killbrew and Courtney Brooks. Source Material the ​ podcast is produced by Peter Lang-stanton, Nicole Kelly, Stephanie Brown. Sound design by Kyle Murdock and Steve Bone. Executive produced and edited by Kate Osborn.

Source Material Synopsis Journalism is powered by primary sources—people who were there, people who saw it, people who lived it. Now, with a camera in everyone’s pocket, phone footage is powering the press. From war zones to wildfires, Source Material presents the stories of people who lived ​ the headlines with their cameras running. Cut out the host, cut out the reporter, and hear the source material for yourself.

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ABOUT VICE MEDIA GROUP VICE Media Group is the world’s largest independent youth media company. Launched in 1994, ​ VICE has offices in 35 cities across the globe with a focus on five key businesses: VICE.com, an award-winning international network of digital content; VICE STUDIOS, a feature film and television production studio; VICE TV, an Emmy-winning international television network; a Peabody award-winning NEWS division with the most Emmy-awarded nightly news broadcast; and VIRTUE, a global, full-service creative agency with 25 offices around the world. VICE Media Group’s portfolio includes , the leading global media and entertainment company focused on women; ​ ​ ​ PULSE Films, a London-based next-generation production studio with outposts in Los Angeles, New ​ York, Paris and Berlin; i-D, a global digital and bimonthly defining and ​ ​ ​ contemporary culture; and Garage, a digital platform and biannual publication converging the worlds ​ ​ ​ of art and design.