Vox (website)

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On-line April 6, 2014 (currently active)
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Vox is an English language news portal owned by Vox Media . The site was founded in April 2014 by Ezra Klein , Matt Yglesias and Melissa Bell founded and by their concept of explanatory journalism ( explanatory journalism known). This brand core includes the Netflix series Explained , which is also received in Germany.

history

Before founding Vox , Ezra Klein was responsible for the Wonkblog , a blog about public policy, at the Washington Post . Ezra Klein tried unsuccessfully to start a new website with financial help from the Post's editors. This was the reason for him to give up this job and instead to switch to Vox Media in January 2014 . The New York Times described Vox Media as "a technology company that produces media", whereas traditional media tried to do the opposite. Klein used his new position to found Vox , including building the staff for the website. It was important to him to "(to) improve the technology of news" and to build an online platform that is well suited to making news understandable. When it was founded, the workforce consisted of 20 people, including journalists Matthew Yglesias and Melissa Bell , both of Klein's former colleagues from the Washington Post.

The news portal Vox has been available on the Internet since April 6, 2014 . Ezra Klein acted as editor-in-chief.

In June 2016, Vox fired Emmett Rensin over a series of tweets that led to an uproar against Donald Trump's election as president.

In September 2017, Ezra Klein resigned as Editor-in-Chief and instead took the role of Editor-at-Large . The new editor-in-chief was Lauren Williams , who was hired just a few months after Vox was founded.

content

According to the founders of Vox , the aim of the website is to explain news by providing additional conceptual information that cannot be found in traditional news sources. Like all other Vox Media websites, Vox uses its own product Chorus as a content management system to enable journalists to create articles with complex visual effects and transitions, including, for example, the ability to scroll through changeable photographs. Vox defines educated households with six-figure incomes and an age of less than 35 years as their target audience.

Video

Vox operates a channel of the same name on YouTube . Videos on news and documentation have been published there regularly since it was founded in 2014. There are always articles about these videos on the website. The channel has over 6.7 million subscribers and over 1.5 billion views.

Vox has been producing the documentary series Explained for Netflix since May 2018 .

Podcasts

Vox operates eight podcasts, all of which are run by Vox journalists:

  • The Weeds, published twice a week, is a round table discussion on domestic politics in the United States. The regular cast include Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias.
  • The Ezra Klein Show is released twice a week. Ezra Klein interviews guests from politics and the media.
  • I Think You're Interesting is a weekly interview podcast on arts, entertainment and pop culture topics. Emily Todd VanDerWerff acts as the moderator.
  • Worldly is a weekly discussion podcast on US foreign policy and international political events. Foreign and security policy journalists Jennifer Williams, Zach Beauchamp and Alex Ward usually attend.
  • The Impact
  • In Today, Explained, host Sean Ramaswaram provides brief explanations of a topic on the news once a day. The structure of the podcast is based on The Daily , a podcast by the New York Times .
  • Future Perfect
  • Prime time

Political stance

Vox has a left-liberal basic orientation. Ross Douthat , a columnist for the New York Times, described Vox in 2016 as “mostly left-wing liberal”. Both the left-wing Daily Kos and the more conservative Washington Examiner have described Vox as a “left-wing website”.

Range

Vox reached 8.2 million unique visitors in July 2014. In August 2019, the visitors were estimated at 33.4 million.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeff Bercovici: Why Do So Many Journalists Hate Vox? In: Forbes . May 12, 2014, accessed June 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dirk Peitz: There's sex on top of that. In: The time . Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Roger Yu: Ezra Klein launches news site Vox.com. In: USA Today . April 7, 2014, accessed July 26, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c d David Carr: Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself. In: The New York Times. January 26, 2014, accessed December 26, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Vox.com is going to be a great test of Ezra Klein's critique of journalism , Columbia Journalism Review (7 April 2014).
  6. ↑ Ezra Klein: Vox is our next. In: The Verge . January 26, 2014, accessed November 17, 2019 .
  7. ^ Staff from Vox: About us. In: Vox. April 3, 2017. Retrieved November 17, 2019 .
  8. ^ Dylan Byers: Vox suspends editor for encouraging riots at Donald Trump rallies. In: CNN . June 3, 2016, accessed June 3, 2016 .
  9. ^ Brian Stelter: Lauren Williams named editor in chief of Vox; Ezra Klein to be editor at large. In: CNN Money . Retrieved September 29, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Ezra Klein et al. a .: Nine questions about Vox. In: Vox. March 9, 2014, accessed February 22, 2018 .
  11. ↑ a b Vox Channel About Page. In: youtube.com. Retrieved October 30, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Why Vox's Netflix show 'Explained' is different from Vox's YouTube videos, explained (by Ezra Klein). In: Recode . Retrieved August 29, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Philip Bump: The political moderate is dead. Long live the moderate. In: The Washington Post . July 11, 2014, accessed November 17, 2019 .
  14. ^ Ross Douthat: The Bill Clinton Question . January 16, 2016.
  15. ↑ Hal Brown: My guide to liberal websites . June 8, 2016. Accessed October 1, 2019.
  16. ↑ Ellie Bufkin: Liberal website Vox: 'Question of Biden's mental fitness for office impossible to ignore' . September 14, 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  17. ↑ David Weigel: Here's What You Need to Know About Politico's Coverage of Vox, in Two Charts . August 23, 2014. Accessed July 26, 2018. 
  18. ↑ vox.com Traffic Statistics ( en ) Retrieved September 22, 2019.

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