Vice News , the hip current events platform targeted at Millennials and which sought to be “ The Economist for young people” during the decade hundreds of journalists spent producing its daily online news and video, is now being resuscitated by company founder Shane Smith, both as a social-platform-first outlet for his podcast and news reports and as a brand partnership vehicle — starting out with a collaboration with Adobe that’s being announced today. Smith’s media company, which he built from a DIY punk magazine in Montreal into a global juggernaut over 20 years, expanded into hard news in 2014 with the launch of the buttoned-up news brand. Vice News offered a mix of daily written news, feature articles, and eye-popping video styled in the brand’s unique form of parachute journalism — hipster staff correspondents who entered news events with a camera and, at times, narrated the action in first-person.…