Vice’s tobacco/vape and labor reporter Norcia is laid off

Alex Norcia

Alex Norcia, who covered the tobacco and vaping industry as well as labor for Vice Media, was among those laid off at the news organization on Friday.

He has been covering those beats since July 2018 and previously was a copy editor for more than two years at Vice.

“It was a thrill editing the print magazine, and it was a thrill reporting for the site, especially about the vape world I fell into,” he wrote on Twitter.

Norcia previously was a news assistant at the New York Times. He is a graduate of Boston University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.