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April 27, 2023updated 07 Nov 2023 5:56am

Vice makes ‘long-term commitment’ to Twitch where journalists can talk Pentagon documents while playing Minecraft

Vice has a team of six or seven people working on Twitch and is now exploring monetisation.

By Bron Maher

To most news executives, Twitch is either an interest they’re vaguely aware their children have or something they’ve been meaning for months to get checked at the doctor.

But the Amazon-owned streaming site is one of the engines of internet culture – and so, perhaps unsurprisingly, youth-focused publisher Vice has set up shop there.

Few news publishers have tried to publish to Twitch – and most attempts so far seem to have failed.

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