Q&A: David Leonhardt says The Upshot won’t replace Nate Silver at The New...
Yesterday, The New York Times launched The Upshot, a new politics and policy vertical that was conceived when Nate Silver left the paper for ESPN. The project is led by David Leonhardt — previously a...
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The newsonomics of Quartz, 19 months in
Quartz, at the tender age of 19 months, can hardly be considered a father to Vox, FiveThirtyEight, and The Upshot. Clearly, though, it’s a major influence. It marked and followed an explanatory way...
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The Verge threw a hackweek and invited everyone they know
The idea for a Hack Week at The Verge was fairly simple, says editor-in-chief Nilay Patel. Looking at the example of how quickly sister publication Vox.com spun to life — nine weeks — and started...
View ArticleThe newsonomics of the millennial moment
Rich Boehne, soon to be CEO of the U.S.’s fifth-largest broadcaster, when the Scripps/Journal Communications merger/split closes in the first quarter, hopes that the broadcast/digital combo will find...
View ArticleThe new Vox daily email, explained
Vox Sentences would seem to share some DNA with BuzzFeed’s upcoming news app, both want to reach an audience of general news consumers who are looking for a smarter daily bundle of stories. Yes, a...
View ArticleWant to make it easier to build news apps quickly? Vox Media has opensourced...
Making a beautiful app for news is great; making a beautiful reusable app for news is better. At least that’s the thinking behind a new project released by Vox Media today: Autotune is a system meant...
View ArticleFrom Nieman Reports: Melissa Bell of Vox Media on the online publisher’s...
The benefit of building a brand that audiences recognize will, in the end, allow us to continue to build a strong revenue model and a strong connection to an audience. If they see us on Snapchat and...
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Hot Pod: Spotify is finally ready to bring podcasting to a new audience
Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is Issue Fifty-Seven, published January 26, 2016. Strap yourselves in, folks. There’s a crap ton of news this week, so much so that I was happy I...
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Inspired by “independent YouTubers,” wary of cable, Vox.com takes its...
Last fall, Vox.com published a video on Syria’s civil war to its YouTube channel, where it’s ended up with nearly 2.5 million views. Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein also posted it to his Facebook page,...
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Hot Pod: How can news organizations better prepare the next generation of...
Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue eighty-one, published August 2, 2016. The ideological spread of podcasts. It’s been…an interesting election cycle here in the United...
View ArticleThis: Vox.com hires Andrew Golis as its first general manager
Vox Media on Monday said that it had created a new position, general manager of Vox.com, and it’s filling it with Andrew Golis, the founder of the now-shuttered startup This and The Atlantic’s former...
View ArticleThe answer, my Facebook friend, is not blowing in the wind (of ongoing...
Bob Dylan received the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, the first American to be awarded the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. Little is known about Dylan’s thoughts on digital innovation in...
View ArticleThe daily podcaster’s choice: Try to fit in listeners’ crowded mornings or...
We’ll soon find out the extent to which that is true with a new entrant, one significantly different from the two incumbents in many key ways. Last week, I led the newsletter with word that Vox Media...
View ArticleExplanatory video + engagement = How Vox’s Borders series is humanizing the...
If you’re going to attempt to humanize the border between two contentious countries, you should probably start by asking the humans living there what they think. And while it’s easy (well, relatively)...
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Vox Media and New York magazine isn’t a marriage, but it’s a deal that makes...
When The New York Times first broke the news that Vox Media was acquiring New York magazine last night, the most common reaction online was to the photo — one that made it look as if CEOs Jim Bankoff...
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