Shamani Joshi

📎Thread: work update 4 years, 50+ website pages, 600+ bylines, countless sleepless nights, anxiety attacks and milestone moments filled with pride later, my time as a staff writer and vertical video producer at VICE comes to a close.

@gav_butler Terribly sorry to hear this, your stories always managed to capture the most incredulous facts in the most definitive way. Thank you for everything you taught me in the early days, can’t wait to see what you do next!

After almost 5 years, my time at VICE is over. I was laid off last week along with the entire Asia-Pacific news team and countless brilliant colleagues around the world. It's been a privilege working with some of the best in the business. I'm so proud of everything we achieved.

@HanakoMontgome1 @VICEWorldNews Will always be in awe of how you brought such a fresh and nuanced perspective to global issues, very sorry to hear the news 🤍

Well, it’s been a rough few weeks but it's come to an end: I’ve been laid off from @VICEWorldNews. Thank you, for everything. It’s been such a rewarding couple of years, being able to work with the most amazing colleagues🤍. Please hire them!! (tagged below)

@SaharHGhazi @VICE You were all such a force of inspiration, truly a huge loss. Thank you for all the hard hitting facts and investigations y’all brought to life with such attention to detail at a moments notice.

Lots of thoughts & feels about an award-winning news team that outperformed every social & web target while covering 60% of the world getting obliterated in @vice layoffs but for now grateful I worked 2 years with this extraordinarily kind, skilled & mighty team. Hire these ✨

@natashya_g @VICEWorldNews Breaks my heart to see this unfold. This team taught me how to be fearless and I can’t wait to see what you all do next 🤍

And just like that, the entire Asia-Pacific @VICEWorldNews newsroom comes to a close. Our APAC team brought to life important, indomitable reporting from this underreported, misunderstood region. It has been my greatest honour to lead them. 🙏

I hope you’ve enjoyed reading, watching and engaging with all the articles and videos as much as I enjoyed working on them!

Couldn’t have done it without my brilliant editors @natashya_g @SaharHGhazi @dhvanisolani @theresereyes_, whose wisdom and guidance is what shaped both the stories and me, as well as the incredibly talented and supportive teams at @viceindia @viceasia @VICEWorldNews @VICE

📎Thread: work update 4 years, 50+ website pages, 600+ bylines, countless sleepless nights, anxiety attacks and milestone moments filled with pride later, my time as a staff writer and vertical video producer at VICE comes to a close.