Vice’s Shane Smith Hints at HLN Acquisition: ‘We Believe We Could Do a Better Job’

By: Mark Joyella | Mediabistro

Is Vice founder and CEO Shane Smith pondering an acquisition of HLN? He sure hinted as much in a conversation with Jeff Jarvis at the Paley Media Council Tuesday. “There’s a lot of distressed media assets out there, some of them in TV, that we can go after” Smith said. “HLN is a distressed media asset. It’s a great opportunity because they’re doing a very bad job and we believe we could do a better job.”