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Vox
Type of site
News and opinion website
Available inEnglish
OwnerVox Media
Founder(s)Ezra Klein, Melissa Bell, and Matthew Yglesias
EditorSwati Sharma
URLvox.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedApril 6, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-04-06)
Current statusActive

Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media. The website was founded in April 2014 by Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, and Melissa Bell, and is noted for its concept of explanatory journalism.[1] Vox's media presence also includes a YouTube channel, several podcasts, and a show presented on Netflix. Vox has been described as left-of-center[2] and progressive.[3]

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Content

According to Vox's founding editors, the site seeks to explain news by providing additional contextual information not usually found in traditional news sources.[4] To reuse work from authors prior to the relaunch in 2014, Vox creates "card stacks" in bright canary yellow that provide context and define terms within an article. The cards are perpetually maintained as a form of "wiki page written by one person with a little attitude".[5] As an example, a card about the term "insurance exchange" may be reused on stories about the Affordable Care Act.[5]

Vox uses Vox Media's Chorus content management system, which enables journalists to easily create articles with complex visual effects and transitions, such as photos that change as the reader scrolls.[5] Vox Media's properties target educated households with six-figure incomes and a head of house less than 35 years old.[5]

Vox's Future Perfect, a reporting project that examines the world through philanthropy and effective altruism, is funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.[6]

Video

Vox has a YouTube channel by the same name where they have regularly posted videos on news and informational subjects since 2014.[7] These videos are accompanied by an article on their website. The themes covered in the videos are usually similar to the themes covered in the regular, written articles on the website.[8] The channel has over 10 million subscribers and over 2.6 billion views as of November 5, 2021.[7] Content surrounds current affairs, timeline of certain events, and interesting facts.[9]

In May 2018, Vox partnered with Netflix to release a weekly TV show called Explained.[10][11]

Podcasts

Zack Beauchamp interviewing Michael Bennet for the Worldly podcast in 2019

Vox distributes numerous podcasts, all hosted by Vox staff, as part of the Vox Media Podcast Network:[12][13]

  • The Weeds is a twice-weekly roundtable podcast, hosted by Yglesias and immigration correspondent Dara Lind, focusing on U.S. national news with a focus on the fine details of public policy.[13][14][15] Senior politics reporter Jane Coaston was a regular co-host before joining the New York Times.[16]
  • Vox Conversations is a weekly interview podcast in which Sean Illing and other hosts across the Vox newsroom interview guests in politics, media, science, and culture.[17]
  • I Think You're Interesting is a weekly interview podcast about the arts, entertainment, and pop culture, hosted by Vox's "critic at large" Emily St. James.[13][18]
  • Worldly (2017–21) was a weekly roundtable podcast focusing on U.S. foreign policy and international affairs, hosted by Vox foreign-and-security-policy writers Jennifer Williams, Zach Beauchamp, and Alex Ward; Yochi Dreazen also previously hosted.[13][19]
  • The Impact is a weekly narrative podcast hosted by Kliff investigating the effects of policy decisions in practice.[20]
  • Today, Explained is a daily podcast, hosted by Sean Ramaswaram, providing short explanations of items in the news.[13][21][22]
  • Future Perfect is a weekly podcast, hosted by Dylan Matthews, exploring provocative ideas with the potential to radically improve the world, often discussing ideas associated with effective altruism.[23][24][25]
  • Primetime is a short-run podcast hosted by Emily St. James. Season 1 (six episodes) focused on TV's relationship with the presidency and was released on a weekly schedule.[13][26]
  • Unexplainable is a weekly science podcast hosted by Noam Hassenfeld and a panel of experts exploring unanswered questions and the ways scientists are trying to answer them.[13]
  • Land of the Giants is a weekly podcast hosted by Shirin Ghaffary and Alex Kantrowitz where each season covers a tech giant like Google, Apple, Uber, Netflix, and Amazon and their dominance in their respective technology sector.[13]
  • Vox Quick Hits was a daily podcast consisting of short episodes covering topics in news, politics, and pop culture. Vox Quick Hits ended on September 10, 2021.[13]

Reception

In March 2014, before it had officially launched, Vox was criticized by conservative media commentators, including Erick Erickson, for a video[27] it had published arguing the U.S. public debt "isn't a problem right now".[28]

The website's launch received significant media attention.[29] Websites noted that the launch came around the same time as other data and explainer websites like FiveThirtyEight and the New York Times' The Upshot.[30][31] Vox was described as trying to act as a "Wikipedia for ongoing news stories".[29]

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry at The Week argued that the website produced "partisan commentary in question-and-answer disguise" and criticized the site for having a "starting lineup [that] was mostly made up of ideological liberals".[32] The Week's Ryu Spaeth described the site's operations as "...essentially tak[ing] the news (in other words, what is happening in the world at any given moment in time) and fram[ing] it in a way that appeals to its young, liberal audience."[33]

The Economist, commenting on Klein's launching essay "How politics makes us stupid",[34] said the website was "bright and promising" and site's premise of "more, better, and more lucidly presented information" was "profoundly honourable", and positively compared the site's mission to John Keats's negative capability.[35] In an opinion piece in The Washington Times, Christopher J. Harper criticized the site for numerous reporting mistakes.[36]

Accolades

In 2015, the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry presented Julia Belluz the Robert B. Balles Prize for Critical Thinking for her work on Vox.[37]

Original programming by Vox has been recognized by the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, which are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In 2017, the documentary 2016 Olympics: What Rio Doesn't Want the World to See was nominated in the "Outstanding News Special" category, Vox Pop was nominated in the "Outstanding Arts, Culture and Entertainment Report" and "Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction" categories,[38] and The Secret Life of Muslims was nominated in the "Outstanding Short Documentary" category.[39] In 2018, Borders was nominated in the "Outstanding Video Journalism: News" category,[40] and Earworm received nominations in the "Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction" and "Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture" categories.[41]

Readership

Vox received 8.2 million unique visitors in July 2014.[42] In October 2021, readership was estimated to be 19.7 million visitors.[43]

In a 2017 interview on Nieman Lab, Klein stated: "We watch our audience data pretty closely, and our audience data does not show or suggest to us that we are overwhelmingly read on one side or the other of the political sphere, which is good.[44]

See also

References

  1. ^ Bercovici, Jeff (May 12, 2014). "Why Do So Many Journalists Hate Vox?". Forbes. Retrieved June 9, 2019.
  2. ^ Schmidt, Steffen W.; Shelley, Mack C.; Bardes, Barbara A. (2018). American Government and Politics Today, Brief. Cengage Learning. p. 140. ISBN 978-1-337-67017-3.
  3. ^ The Editorial Board (July 8, 2020). "Bonfire of the Liberals". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
  4. ^ Klein, Ezra; Bell, Melissa; Yglesias, Matt (March 9, 2014). "Nine questions about Vox". Vox. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  5. ^ a b c d Kaufman, Leslie (April 6, 2014). "Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level". The New York Times. Archived from the original on May 6, 2015. Retrieved December 26, 2014.
  6. ^ Schwab, Tim (August 21, 2020). "Journalism's Gates keepers". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
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  10. ^ "Why Vox's Netflix show 'Explained' is different from Vox's YouTube videos, explained (by Ezra Klein)". Recode. Retrieved August 29, 2018.
  11. ^ Weissman, Cale Guthrie (May 23, 2018). "Vox's new Netflix show is just the start of its video ambitions". Fast Company. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  12. ^ "Vox Media Podcasts Network". podcasts.voxmedia.com. Retrieved May 17, 2021.
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Podcasts". Vox. Vox Media. June 10, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  14. ^ "The Weeds". Vox. Vox Media. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  15. ^ "Vox's The Weeds". Stitcher. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  16. ^ "Jane Coaston Named New Host of "The Argument"". The New York Times Company. November 6, 2020. Retrieved August 17, 2021.
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  18. ^ "I Think You're Interesting". Vox. Vox Media. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  19. ^ "Worldly". Vox. Vox Media. June 10, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  20. ^ "The Impact". Vox. Vox Media. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  21. ^ "Today, Explained". Vox. Vox Media. Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  22. ^ "The Ambies: 2021 Winners". Ambies. 2021. Archived from the original on November 7, 2021. Retrieved December 12, 2021.
  23. ^ Matthews, Dylan (October 15, 2018). "Future Perfect, explained". Vox. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
  24. ^ Matthews, Dylan (October 15, 2018). "How to save a stranger's life (Future Perfect Podcast Ep. 1)". Vox. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
  25. ^ Matthews, Dylan (November 28, 2018). "How to pick a career that counts". Vox. Retrieved December 8, 2018.
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  27. ^ Yglesias, Matthew (March 28, 2014). "Stop freaking out about the debt". Vox. Vox Media. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
  28. ^ Cosman, Ben. "Ezra Klein's Vox Is Already Being Labeled 'Left-Wing Propaganda' by Conservatives". The Atlantic. Retrieved November 3, 2016.
  29. ^ a b "How Vox is going to make its way to the top". The Daily Dot. April 7, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2016.
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  32. ^ "Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left". The Week. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  33. ^ Spaeth, Ryu (July 21, 2015). "The Gawker meltdown and the Vox-ification of the news media". Retrieved October 24, 2016.
  34. ^ Klein, Ezra (April 5, 2014). "How politics makes us stupid". Vox. Vox Media. Retrieved December 17, 2019.
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  36. ^ Harper, Christopher (January 7, 2015). "Vox news website needs to take serious look at how it 'reinvents' journalism". The Washington Times. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
  37. ^ Fidalgo, Paul (2016). "CSI's Balles Prize in Critical Thinking Awarded to Julia Belluz of Vox.com". Skeptical Inquirer. 40 (5): 6.
  38. ^ Peterson, Tim (August 9, 2018). "Vox Entertainment is developing a TV show with Vox.com's Emmy-nominated YouTube producer". Digiday. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  39. ^ "Nominees for the 38th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards Announced" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 10, 2019. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  40. ^ Scott, Caroline (August 23, 2018). "How Vox expanded its network by crowdsourcing for its latest documentary series". Journalism.co.uk. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  41. ^ "Nominees for the 39th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards Announced" (PDF). National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. July 26, 2018. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
  42. ^ Weigel, David (August 23, 2014). "Here's What You Need to Know About Politico's Coverage of Vox, in Two Charts". Slate. Retrieved July 26, 2018.
  43. ^ "vox.com Traffic Statistics". SimilarWeb. Retrieved December 29, 2021.
  44. ^ "Ezra Klein hopes Vox can change the fact that 'people who are more into the news read the news more'". Nieman Lab. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
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