Vice Media reportedly hires former Obama official

Vice Media has reportedly hired former White House official Alyssa Mastromonaco to become its chief operating officer starting in January.

Mastromonaco began working for President Obama when he was still a senator, in 2005, and she stayed with him through two presidential campaigns and his first term in the White House. She started as the scheduling director and eventually rose to become the deputy chief of staff for operations in 2011, a post she filled until leaving last May.

Vice Media is a fast-growing news and entertainment company that recently received $500 million in funding from A&E Networks and investment firm Technology Crossover Ventures. Each investor agreed to pay $250 million for a 10 percent stake in Vice, valuing the company at $2.5 billion.

Vice now operates in 36 different countries, according to the New York Times, and is known for its edgy reporting, including an in-depth documentary made by embedding a reporter with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

As she prepared for her departure from the White House this spring, Mastromonaco spoke to "CBS This Morning" co-host Charlie Rose in her first interview in eight years.

She said that before Obama agreed to let her go, however, Mastromonaco had to promise the president one thing: that she would be there for him after his presidency.

"We've been through a great adventure, and what he said was, 'You can go and you can take some time off. But you know, we're together forever, and I need you around.' And he's like, 'You have to tell me that's the deal,' and I said, 'Of course,'" Mastromonaco said.

She also said Mr. Obama initially tried to talk her out of leaving.

"I think that he knew that for me to actually get to the point where I said, 'You know what, it's time,' that he understood," she said.