Vox (website)

== Reception ==
In March 2014, before it had officially launched, ''Vox'' was criticized by [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] media commentators, including [[Erick Erickson]], for a video<ref>{{cite web |last=Yglesias |first=Matthew |title=Stop freaking out about the debt |date=March 28, 2014 |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/3/28/5559052/stop-freaking-out-about-the-debt |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |access-date=December 17, 2019}}</ref> it had published arguing the [[U.S. public debt]] "isn't a problem right now".<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/ezra-kleins-vox-is-already-being-labeled-left-wing-propaganda-by-conservatives/359709/ |title=Ezra Klein's Vox Is Already Being Labeled 'Left-Wing Propaganda' by Conservatives |last=Cosman |first=Ben |newspaper=The Atlantic |language=en-US|access-date=November 3, 2016}}</ref>

The website's launch received significant media attention.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |url=http://www.dailydot.com/news/vox-explains-it-all/ |title=How Vox is going to make its way to the top |date=April 7, 2014 |newspaper=The Daily Dot|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/22/upshot-vox-fivethirtyeight-data-journalism-golden-age |title=The Upshot, Vox and FiveThirtyEight: data journalism's golden age, or TMI? |date=April 22, 2014 |newspaper=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/04/07/klein-launches-vox/7420053/ |title=Ezra Klein launches news site Vox.com |newspaper=USA TODAY|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref> ''Vox'' was described as trying to act as a "[[Wikipedia]] for ongoing news stories".<ref name=":5" />

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".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://theweek.com/articles/445880/vox-derp-intellectual-stagnation-left |title=Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left |website=[[The Week]]|date=June 26, 2014 |access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref> ''[[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."<ref>{{Cite news |first=Ryu |last=Spaeth |url=https://theweek.com/articles/567586/gawker-meltdown-voxification-news-media |title=The Gawker meltdown and the Vox-ification of the news media |date=July 21, 2015|access-date=October 24, 2016}}</ref> Damon Linker also criticized them, calling them "a parody of liberal faux-neutrality," and that "partisanship is so obvious," in an Obama interview they conducted, "that it's hard to imagine anyone being fooled."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://theweek.com/articles/557588/isis-still-losing-why-vox-keeps-getting-news-wrong | title=Is ISIS still losing? Why Vox keeps getting the news wrong | website=[[The Week]] | date=May 29, 2015 }}</ref>

''[[The Economist]]'', commenting on Klein's launching essay "How politics makes us stupid",<ref name="Klein-Politics">{{Cite web |last=Klein |first=Ezra |title=How politics makes us stupid |date=April 5, 2014 |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/4/6/5556462/brain-dead-how-politics-makes-us-stupid |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |access-date=December 17, 2019}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=":4" /> In an opinion piece in ''[[The Washington Times]]'', [[Christopher J. Harper]] criticized the site for numerous reporting mistakes.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/7/christopher-harper-vox-news-website-needs-to-take-/?page=all |title=Vox news website needs to take serious look at how it 'reinvents' journalism |last=Harper |first=Christopher |date=January 7, 2015 |website=The Washington Times |access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref>

The co-founder of ''Vox'', [[Matthew Yglesias]], after leaving the company, stated in an interview for ''[[The Atlantic]]'' that he was at odds not just with those at ''Vox'', but mainstream media as a whole, saying "'The people making the media are young college graduates in big cities, and that kind of politics makes a lot of sense to them,' he said. 'And we keep seeing that older people, and working-class people of all races and ethnicities, just don't share that entire worldview.'"<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/substack-and-medias-groupthink-problem/617102/ | title=Why Matthew Yglesias Left Vox | website=[[The Atlantic]] | date=November 13, 2020 }}</ref>

=== Accolades ===
In 2015, the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] presented [[Julia Belluz]] the Robert B. Balles Prize for Critical Thinking for her work on ''Vox''.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fidalgo |first1=Paul |title=CSI's Balles Prize in Critical Thinking Awarded to Julia Belluz of Vox.com |journal=Skeptical Inquirer |date=2016 |volume=40 |issue=5 |page=6}}</ref>

Original programming by ''Vox'' has been recognized by the [[News & Documentary Emmy Award]]s, 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,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Peterson |first1=Tim |title=Vox Entertainment is developing a TV show with Vox.com's Emmy-nominated YouTube producer |url=https://digiday.com/media/vox-entertainment-developing-tv-show-vox-coms-emmy-nominated-youtube-producer/ |access-date=September 5, 2018 |work=Digiday |date=August 9, 2018}}</ref> and ''The Secret Life of Muslims'' was nominated in the "Outstanding Short Documentary" category.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nominees for the 38th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards Announced |url=http://emmyonline.com/download/news_38th_nominations_Final.pdf |access-date=September 5, 2018 |archive-date=September 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190910230144/http://emmyonline.com/download/news_38th_nominations_Final.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2018, ''Borders'' was nominated in the "Outstanding Video Journalism: News" category,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Scott |first1=Caroline |title=How Vox expanded its network by crowdsourcing for its latest documentary series |url=https://www.journalism.co.uk/news/vox-continues-to-expand-its-network-crowdsourcing-for-its-latest-documentary-series/s2/a726572/ |access-date=September 5, 2018 |work=[[Journalism.co.uk]] |date=August 23, 2018}}</ref> and ''Earworm'' received nominations in the "Outstanding Graphic Design and Art Direction" and "Outstanding New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle and Culture" categories.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cdn.emmyonline.org/news_39th_nominations_v03.pdf |publisher=[[National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences]] |title=Nominees for the 39th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards Announced |date=July 26, 2018 |access-date=September 5, 2018 |archive-date=September 16, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180916164000/http://cdn.emmyonline.org/news_39th_nominations_v03.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> Between 2017 and 2021, Vox journalists David Roberts, Umair Irfan, and Rebecca Leber won five [[SEAL Awards]] for environmental journalism.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sealawards.com/environmental-journalism-award-winners-seal-2017/ | title=2017 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award Winners| website=[[SEAL Awards]] | date=2017-09-17 |access-date=2023-12-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://sealawards.com/environmental-journalism-award-2018/ | title=2018 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award Winners Announced | website=[[SEAL Awards]] | date=2018-11-12 |access-date=2023-12-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://sealawards.com/environmental-journalism-award-2019/ | title=2019 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award Winners Announced | website=[[SEAL Awards]] | date=2020-02-13 |access-date=2023-12-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://sealawards.com/environmental-journalism-award-2021/ | title=Twelve Journalists Recognized as 2021 SEAL Environmental Journalism Award Winners | website=[[SEAL Awards]] | date=2022-06-21 |access-date=2023-12-19}}</ref>