Vox is a left-leaning American news/opinion website and subsidiary of Vox Media, a mass media company Melissa Bell and Ezra Klein founded in 2014. Vox is known for its concept of explanatory journalism and its use of "card stacks" to define terms and provide context. Vox's YouTube channel creates live-action animated videos covering many topics. They have 10.5 million subscribers and 2.8 billion views as of April 2022.
History[]
Ezra Klein joined Vox Media after leaving the Washington Post in January 2014. The site launched on April 6, 2014, with him as its editor-in-chief.
Vox fired Emmett Rensin in June 2016 after he spread controversy about Trump's tweets, later hiring Liz Plank as a political correspondent.
On September 29, 2017, Ezra shifted his position to Vox's editor-at-large, naming his deputy Lauren Williams as editor-in-chief.