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'''Vox''' is an American news and opinion website owned by [[Vox Media]]. The website was founded in April 2014 by [[Ezra Klein]]. Noted for its concept of explanatory journalism, Vox takes a [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]]-leaning editorial stance.

== History ==
Prior to founding Vox, [[Ezra Klein]] worked ''[[The Washington Post]]'' as the head of Wonkblog, a [[public policy]] blog.<ref name="usatoday">{{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 |date=April 7, 2014 |first=Roger |last=Yu |work=USA Today |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref> When Klein attempted to launch a new site using funding from the newspaper's editors, his proposal was turned down and Klein subsequently left ''The Washington Post'' for a position with [[Vox Media]], another communications company, in January 2014.<ref name="usatoday" /><ref name="NYT: joining Vox">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/business/media/ezra-klein-joining-vox-media-as-web-journalism-asserts-itself.html |accessdate=December 26, 2014 |title=Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself |last1=Carr |first1=David |authorlink=David Carr (journalist) |date=January 26, 2014 |website=The New York Times |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6V7lOyGVm?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/business/media/ezra-klein-joining-vox-media-as-web-journalism-asserts-itself.html?_r=0 |archivedate=December 27, 2014 |deadurl=no}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' described Vox Media as "a technology company that produces media" rather than its inverse, associated with "Old Media".<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /> From his new position, Klein worked towards the establishing of Vox, including hiring new journalists for the site.<ref name="usatoday" /> Klein expected to "improve the technology of news" and build an online platform better equipped for making news understandable.<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /> The new site's 20-person staff was chosen for their expertise in topic areas and included ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''{{'s}} [[Matthew Yglesias]], [[Melissa Bell (journalist)|Melissa Bell]], and Klein's colleagues from ''The Washington Post''.<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /><ref>[http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/voxcom_is_going_to_be_a_great_test_ezra_klein_critique_journalism.php Vox.com is going to be a great test of Ezra Klein’s critique of journalism], ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' (April 7, 2014).</ref> Vox was launched on April 6, 2014.<ref name="usatoday" />

Klein serves as Vox's [[editor-in-chief]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/authors/ezra-klein |title=Ezra Klein Editor-in-Chief |author= |date= |website=vox.com |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=January 30, 2017}}</ref> His opening [[editorial]] essay, "How politics makes us stupid", explained his distress about political polarization in the context of [[Yale Law School]] professor [[Dan Kahan]]'s theories on how people protect themselves from information that conflicts with their core beliefs.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/04/journalism-and-democracy |title=Ezra Klein's strangled Vox |date=April 11, 2014 |newspaper=The Economist |issn=0013-0613|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>

In June 2016, Vox suspended contributor [[Emmett Rensin]] for a series of tweets calling for anti-Trump [[riots]], including one on June 3, 2016 that urged, "If Trump comes to your town, start a riot." The tweets drew attention after violent [[Protests of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|anti-Trump protests]] took place in [[San Jose, California]] on the day of Rensin's tweet.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/03/media/vox-editor-suspended-trump-riots/index.html |title=Vox suspends editor for encouraging riots at Donald Trump rallies |date=June 3, 2016 |publisher=CNN |last1=Byers |first1=Dylan|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-vox-suspends-editor-1464984232-htmlstory.html |title=Vox suspends editor who called for anti-Trump riots |date=June 3, 2016 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |last1=Halper |first1=Evan|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/emmettrensin/status/738583628855156742 |title=Advice: If Trump comes to your town, start a riot |date=June 2, 2016 |type=[[Twitter]] post|access-date=June 2, 2016 |author=Emmett Rensin [emmettrensin]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/06/03/what-will-a-suspension-do-for-a-vox-editor-who-urged-anti-trump-riots/ |title=What will a suspension do for a Vox editor who urged anti-Trump riots? |date=June 3, 2016 |publisher=Washington Post |last1=Wemple |first1=Eric|access-date=June 5, 2016}}</ref> [[Elizabeth Plank]] was hired in 2016 as a political correspondent,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vox-snags-mics-elizabeth-plank-871624 |title=Vox Snags Mic's Elizabeth Plank for Election Coverage |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=March 1, 2016 |access-date=June 24, 2017}}</ref> and in 2017 launched her own series with Vox Media, called ''Divided States of Women''.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vox-media-launching-video-series-focused-women-1046001 |title=Vox Media Launching New Video Series Focused on Women |first=Jeremy |last=Barr |date=October 5, 2017 |journal=The Hollywood Reporter |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref>

In September 2017, Vox announced that Ezra Klein would be taking a new role as editor-at-large, and that Klein's deputy, Lauren Williams, would be named editor-in-chief.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/26/media/ezra-klein-vox-lauren-williams/index.html |title=Lauren Williams named editor in chief of Vox; Ezra Klein to be editor at large |last=Stelter |first=Brian |work=CNN Money|access-date=September 29, 2017}}</ref>

== Content ==
Vox's mission is to "explain the news", meaning it strives to make sure its readers "understand what just happened," by providing "contextual information that traditional news stories aren't designed to carry."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Klein |first1=Ezra |last2=Bell |first2=Melissa |last3=Yglesias |first3=Matt |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/3/28/5559144/nine-questions-about-vox |title=Nine questions about Vox |website=Vox |date=March 9, 2014 |accessdate=February 22, 2018}}</ref> 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".<ref name="NYT: melding">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/business/media/voxcom-takes-melding-of-journalism-and-technology-to-next-level.html?_r=0 |accessdate=December 26, 2014 |title=Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level |last1=Kaufman |first1=Leslie |date=April 6, 2014 |website=The New York Times |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6V7lIdtpR?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/business/media/voxcom-takes-melding-of-journalism-and-technology-to-next-level.html?_r=1 |archivedate=December 27, 2014 |deadurl=no}}</ref> As an example, a card about the term "insurance exchange" may be reused on stories about the [[Affordable Care Act]].<ref name="NYT: melding" />

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.<ref name="NYT: melding" /> Vox Media's properties target educated households with six-figure incomes and a head of house less than 35 years old.<ref name="NYT: melding" />

=== Video ===
Vox has a YouTube channel by the same name where they have regularly posted videos on news and informational subjects since 2014.<ref name="VoxYTabout">{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/about |title=Vox Channel About Page |website=youtube.com|access-date=April 30, 2018}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://digiday.com/media/vox-com-tripled-youtube-viewership-one-year/ |title=How YouTube latecomer Vox beat the odds and built a big channel |last=Patel |first=Sahil |date=May 15, 2017 |work=Digiday |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref> The channel has over 4.6 million subscribers and over one billion views as of late August 2018.<ref name="VoxYTabout" /> Content surrounds both current affairs, timeline of certain events, and interesting facts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/featured |title=Vox Channel Home Page |website=youtube.com |accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>

In May 2018, Vox partnered with [[Netflix]] to release a weekly TV show called ''[[Explained (TV series)|Explained]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.recode.net/2018/5/24/17386554/vox-netflix-explained-ezra-klein-explainer-video-youtube-peter-kafka-media-podcast |title=Why Vox’s Netflix show ‘Explained’ is different from Vox’s YouTube videos, explained (by Ezra Klein) |work=Recode|access-date=August 29, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/40575395/voxs-netflix-ambitions-are-just-the-beginning |title=Vox's new Netflix show is just the start of its video ambitions |date=May 23, 2018 |first=Cale Guthrie |last=Weissman |journal=Fast Company |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref>

=== Podcasts ===
Vox distributes six podcasts, all hosted by Vox staff:<ref name="Podcasts">{{cite web |title=Podcasts |url=https://www.vox.com/pages/podcasts |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>

*''The Weeds'' is a twice-weekly [[round table (discussion)|roundtable]] podcast, hosted by Klein, Yglesias, and healthcare policy correspondent Sarah Kliff, focusing on U.S. national news with a focus on the fine details of public policy.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=The Weeds |url=https://www.vox.com/the-weeds |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
*''The Ezra Klein Show'' is a weekly interview podcast in which Klein interviews guests in politics and media.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Ezra Klein Show |url=https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
*''I Think You're Interesting'' is a weekly interview podcast about the arts, entertainment, and pop culture, hosted by Vox's "critic at large" Todd VanDerWerff.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=I Think You're Interesting |url=https://www.vox.com/i-think-youre-interesting |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
*''Worldly'' is 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.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Worldly |url=https://www.vox.com/worldly |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
*''The Impact'' is a weekly narrative podcast hosted by Kliff investigating the effects of policy decisions in practice.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Impact |url=https://www.vox.com/the-impact |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
*''Today, Explained'' is a daily podcast, hosted by Sean Ramaswaram, providing short explanations of items in the news.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Today, Explained |url=https://www.vox.com/today-explained |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>

=== Reception ===
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/ |accessdate=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 |accessdate=September 5, 2018 |format=PDF}}</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/ |accessdate=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 |accessdate=September 5, 2018 |format=PDF}}</ref>

==Editorial stance==
Vox takes an [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]]-leaning editorial stance.<ref name="Bump">{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/07/11/the-political-moderate-is-dead-long-live-the-moderate/|title=The political moderate is dead. Long live the moderate|last=Bump|first=Philip|date=July 11, 2014|website=Washington Post|language=en|access-date=2018-09-14}}</ref> ''New York Times'' columnist [[Ross Douthat]], writing in 2016, described Vox as "mostly liberal".<ref>Ross Douthat, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/the-bill-clinton-question.html The Bill Clinton Question], ''New York Times'' (January 17, 2016).</ref>

== 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 it had published.<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 using [[clickbait]]-style headlines to enhance shareability and to act as a "Wikipedia for ongoing news stories."<ref name=":5" />

Shortly after it launched, conservative writer [[David Harsanyi]] criticized the site's concept of "explanatory journalism" in an article in ''[[The Federalist (website)|The Federalist]]'' titled "How Vox makes us stupid", arguing that the website selectively chose facts, and that "explanatory journalism" inherently leaves out opposing viewpoints and different perspectives.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/08/how-vox-makes-us-stupid/ |title=How Vox makes us stupid |last=Politics|access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref> 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=http://theweek.com/articles/445880/vox-derp-intellectual-stagnation-left |title=Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left |website=[[The Week]]|access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref> ''[[The Week]]''{{'}}s Ryu Spaeth described the site's operations as, "It essentially takes the news (in other words, what is happening in the world at any given moment in time) and frames it in a way that appeals to its young, liberal audience."<ref>{{Cite news |author=Ryu Spaeth |url=http://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>

''[[The Economist]]'', commenting on Klein's launching essay "How politics makes us stupid", said the website was "bright and promising" and the premise behind the site was "profoundly honourable", and positively compared the site's mission to [[John Keats]]'s [[negative capability]].<ref name=":4" />

''[[The New York Times]]''{{'s}} [[David Carr (journalist)|David Carr]] associated Klein's exit for Vox with other "big-name journalists" leaving newspapers for digital start-ups, such as [[Walter Mossberg]] and [[Kara Swisher]] (''[[Re/code]]''), [[David Pogue]], and [[Nate Silver]].<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" />

In December 2014, the website [[Deadspin]] wrote a post listing each time Vox ran a correction for a factual error in an article.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447 |title=46 Times Vox Totally Fucked Up a Story |last=Draper |first=Kevin |newspaper=The Concourse |language=en-US|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref> 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 Washingtion Times |access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref>

In 2015, the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] presented [[Julia Belluz]] the Robert B. Balles Prize for Critical Thinking for her work on Vox. "We need more people in the media doing what Julia Bellux does ...".<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>

==Readership==
Vox received 8.2 million unique visitors in July 2014.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Weigel|first=David|date=August 23, 2014|title=Here's What You Need to Know About Politico's Coverage of Vox, in Two Charts|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/08/23/here_s_what_you_need_to_know_about_politico_s_coverage_of_vox_in_two_charts.html|accessdate=July 26, 2018|website=Slate}}</ref>

In a 2017 [[Nieman Lab]] interview, Ezra Klein stated of Vox's audience: "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...And overall our audience leans a bit left, but it doesn’t lean overwhelmingly so."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/ezra-klein-hopes-vox-can-change-the-fact-that-people-who-are-more-into-the-news-read-the-news-more/ |title=Ezra Klein hopes Vox can change the fact that “people who are more into the news read the news more” |work=Nieman Lab|access-date=November 20, 2017}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
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'''Vox''' is an American news and opinion website owned by [[Vox Media]]. The website was founded in April 2014 by [[Ezra Klein]]. Noted for its concept of explanatory journalism,<ref>{{cite web |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? |website=theguardian.com |author=James Ball |date=April 22, 2014 |accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://contently.com/strategist/2014/04/23/a-brief-history-of-explanatory-journalism/ |title=A Brief History of Explanatory Journalism |website=contently.com |author=Natalie Burg |date=April 23, 2014 |accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2016/02/29/explanatory-journalism-a-tool-in-the-war-against-polarization-and-dysfunction/ |title=Explanatory journalism: A tool in the war against polarization and dysfunction |website=brookings.edu |author=Thomas E. Mann |date=February 29, 2016 |accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref> Vox takes a [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]]-leaning editorial stance.<ref name="Bump">Philip Bump, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/07/11/the-political-moderate-is-dead-long-live-the-moderate/ The political moderate is dead. Long live the moderate.], ''New York Times'' (July 11, 2014).</ref>

== History ==
Prior to founding Vox, [[Ezra Klein]] worked ''[[The Washington Post]]'' as the head of Wonkblog, a [[public policy]] blog.<ref name="usatoday">{{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 |date=April 7, 2014 |first=Roger |last=Yu |work=USA Today |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref> When Klein attempted to launch a new site using funding from the newsper's editors, his proposal was turned and Klein subsequently left ''The Washington Post'' for a position with [[Vox Media]], another communications company, in January 2014.<ref name="usatoday" /><ref name="NYT: joining Vox">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/business/media/ezra-klein-joining-vox-media-as-web-journalism-asserts-itself.html |accessdate=December 26, 2014 |title=Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself |last1=Carr |first1=David |authorlink=David Carr (journalist) |date=January 26, 2014 |work=The New York Times |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6V7lOyGVm?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/business/media/ezra-klein-joining-vox-media-as-web-journalism-asserts-itself.html?_r=0 |archivedate=December 27, 2014 |deadurl=no}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' described Vox Media as "a technology company that produces media" rather than its inverse, associated with "Old Media".<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /> From his new position, Klein worked towards the establishing of Vox, including hiring new journalists for the site.<ref name="usatoday" /> Klein expected to "improve the technology of news" and build an online platform better equipped for making news understandable.<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /> The new site's 20-person staff was chosen for their expertise in topic areas and included ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''{{'s}} [[Matthew Yglesias]], [[Melissa Bell (journalist)|Melissa Bell]], and Klein's colleagues from ''The Washington Post''.<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /><ref>[http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/voxcom_is_going_to_be_a_great_test_ezra_klein_critique_journalism.php Vox.com is going to be a great test of Ezra Klein’s critique of journalism], ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' (April 7, 2014).</ref> Vox was launched on April 6, 2014.<ref name="usatoday" />

Klein serves as Vox's [[editor-in-chief]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/authors/ezra-klein |title=Ezra Klein Editor-in-Chief |author= |date= |website=vox.com |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=January 30, 2017}}</ref> His opening [[editorial]] essay, "How politics makes us stupid", explained his distress about political polarization in the context of [[Yale Law School]] professor [[Dan Kahan]]'s theories on how people protect themselves from information that conflicts with their core beliefs.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/04/journalism-and-democracy |title=Ezra Klein's strangled Vox |date=April 11, 2014 |newspaper=The Economist |issn=0013-0613|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>

In June 2016, Vox suspended contributor [[Emmett Rensin]] for a series of tweets calling for anti-Trump [[riots]], including one on June 3, 2016 that urged, "If Trump comes to your town, start a riot." The tweets drew attention after violent [[Protests of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|anti-Trump protests]] took place in [[San Jose, California]] on the day of Rensin's tweet.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/03/media/vox-editor-suspended-trump-riots/index.html |title=Vox suspends editor for encouraging riots at Donald Trump rallies |date=June 3, 2016 |publisher=CNN |last1=Byers |first1=Dylan|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-vox-suspends-editor-1464984232-htmlstory.html |title=Vox suspends editor who called for anti-Trump riots |date=June 3, 2016 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |last1=Halper |first1=Evan|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/emmettrensin/status/738583628855156742 |title=Advice: If Trump comes to your town, start a riot. |date=June 2, 2016 |type=[[Twitter]] post|access-date=June 2, 2016 |author=Emmett Rensin [emmettrensin]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/06/03/what-will-a-suspension-do-for-a-vox-editor-who-urged-anti-trump-riots/ |title=What will a suspension do for a Vox editor who urged anti-Trump riots? |date=June 3, 2016 |publisher=Washington Post |last1=Wemple |first1=Eric|access-date=June 5, 2016}}</ref> [[Elizabeth Plank]] was hired in 2016 as a political correspondent,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vox-snags-mics-elizabeth-plank-871624 |title=Vox Snags Mic's Elizabeth Plank for Election Coverage |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=March 1, 2016 |access-date=June 24, 2017}}</ref> and in 2017 launched her own series with Vox Media, called ''Divided States of Women''.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vox-media-launching-video-series-focused-women-1046001 |title=Vox Media Launching New Video Series Focused on Women |first=Jeremy |last=Barr |date=October 5, 2017 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref>

In September 2017, Vox announced that Ezra Klein would be taking a new role as editor-at-large, and that Klein's deputy, Lauren Williams, would be named editor-in-chief.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/26/media/ezra-klein-vox-lauren-williams/index.html |title=Lauren Williams named editor in chief of Vox; Ezra Klein to be editor at large |last=Stelter |first=Brian |work=CNN Money|access-date=September 29, 2017}}</ref>

== Content ==
Vox's mission is to "explain the news", meaning it strives to make sure its readers "understand what just happened," by providing "contextual information that traditional news stories aren't designed to carry."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Klein |first1=Ezra |last2=Bell |first2=Melissa |last3=Yglesias |first3=Matt |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/3/28/5559144/nine-questions-about-vox |title=Nine questions about Vox |work=Vox |date=March 9, 2014 |accessdate=February 22, 2018}}</ref> 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".<ref name="NYT: melding">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/business/media/voxcom-takes-melding-of-journalism-and-technology-to-next-level.html?_r=0 |accessdate=December 26, 2014 |title=Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level |last1=Kaufman |first1=Leslie |date=April 6, 2014 |work=The New York Times |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6V7lIdtpR?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/business/media/voxcom-takes-melding-of-journalism-and-technology-to-next-level.html?_r=1 |archivedate=December 27, 2014 |deadurl=no}}</ref> As an example, a card about the term "insurance exchange" may be reused on stories about the [[Affordable Care Act]].<ref name="NYT: melding" />

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.<ref name="NYT: melding" /> Vox Media's properties target educated households with six-figure incomes and a head of house less than 35 years old.<ref name="NYT: melding" />

Vox produced a [[web series]], ''Explained'', which debuted in 2018 as part of a partnership with [[Netflix]].<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/40575395/voxs-netflix-ambitions-are-just-the-beginning |title=Vox's new Netflix show is just the start of its video ambitions |date=May 23, 2018 |first=Cale Guthrie |last=Weissman |work=Fast Company |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref>

==Editorial stance==
Vox takes an [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]]-leaning editorial stance.<ref name="Bump" /> ''New York Times'' columnist [[Ross Douthat]], writing in 2016, described Vox as "mostly liberal".<ref>Ross Douthat, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/the-bill-clinton-question.html The Bill Clinton Question], ''New York Times'' (January 17, 2016).</ref>

== YouTube ==
Vox has a YouTube channel by the same name where they have regularly posted videos on news and informational subjects since 2014.<ref name="VoxYTabout" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://digiday.com/media/vox-com-tripled-youtube-viewership-one-year/ |title=How YouTube latecomer Vox beat the odds and built a big channel |first=Sahil |last=Patel |date=May 15, 2017 |work=Digiday |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref> The channel has over 4.6 million subscribers and over one billion views as of late August 2018.<ref name="VoxYTabout">{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/about |title=Vox Channel About Page |website=youtube.com|access-date=April 30, 2018}}</ref>

Content surrounds both current affairs, timeline of certain events, and interesting facts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/featured |title=Vox Channel Home Page |website=youtube.com |accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref> In May 2018, Vox partnered with [[Netflix]] to release a weekly TV show called ''[[Explained (TV series)|Explained]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.recode.net/2018/5/24/17386554/vox-netflix-explained-ezra-klein-explainer-video-youtube-peter-kafka-media-podcast |title=Why Vox’s Netflix show ‘Explained’ is different from Vox’s YouTube videos, explained (by Ezra Klein) |work=Recode|access-date=August 29, 2018}}</ref>

== Podcasts ==
Vox distributes six podcasts, all hosted by Vox staff:<ref name="Podcasts">{{cite web |title=Podcasts |url=https://www.vox.com/pages/podcasts |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''The Weeds'' is a twice-weekly [[round table (discussion)|roundtable]] podcast, hosted by Klein, Yglesias, and healthcare policy correspondent Sarah Kliff, focusing on U.S. national news with a focus on the fine details of public policy.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=The Weeds |url=https://www.vox.com/the-weeds |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''The Ezra Klein Show'' is a weekly interview podcast in which Klein interviews guests in politics and media.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Ezra Klein Show |url=https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''I Think You're Interesting'' is a weekly interview podcast about the arts, entertainment, and pop culture, hosted by Vox's "critic at large" Todd VanDerWerff.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=I Think You're Interesting |url=https://www.vox.com/i-think-youre-interesting |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''Worldly'' is 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.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Worldly |url=https://www.vox.com/worldly |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''The Impact'' is a weekly narrative podcast hosted by Kliff investigating the effects of policy decisions in practice.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Impact |url=https://www.vox.com/the-impact |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''Today, Explained'' is a daily podcast, hosted by Sean Ramaswaram, providing short explanations of items in the news.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Today, Explained |url=https://www.vox.com/today-explained |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>

== 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 it had published.<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 using [[clickbait]]-style headlines to enhance shareability and to act as a "Wikipedia for ongoing news stories."<ref name=":5" />

Shortly after it launched, conservative writer [[David Harsanyi]] criticized the site's concept of "explanatory journalism" in an article in ''[[The Federalist (website)|The Federalist]]'' titled "How Vox makes us stupid", arguing that the website selectively chose facts, and that "explanatory journalism" inherently leaves out opposing viewpoints and different perspectives.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/08/how-vox-makes-us-stupid/ |title=How Vox makes us stupid |last=Politics|access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref> 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=http://theweek.com/articles/445880/vox-derp-intellectual-stagnation-left |title=Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left |website=[[The Week]]|access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref> ''[[The Week]]''{{'}}s Ryu Spaeth described the site's operations as, "It essentially takes the news (in other words, what is happening in the world at any given moment in time) and frames it in a way that appeals to its young, liberal audience."<ref>{{Cite news |author=Ryu Spaeth |url=http://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>

''[[The Economist]]'', commenting on Klein's launching essay "How politics makes us stupid", said the website was "bright and promising" and the premise behind the site was "profoundly honourable", and positively compared the site's mission to [[John Keats]]'s [[negative capability]].<ref name=":4" />

''[[The New York Times]]''{{'s}} [[David Carr (journalist)|David Carr]] associated Klein's exit for Vox with other "big-name journalists" leaving newspapers for digital start-ups, such as [[Walter Mossberg]] and [[Kara Swisher]] (''[[Re/code]]''), [[David Pogue]], and [[Nate Silver]].<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" />

In December 2014, the website [[Deadspin]] wrote a post listing each time Vox ran a correction for a factual error in an article.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447 |title=46 Times Vox Totally Fucked Up a Story |last=Draper |first=Kevin |newspaper=The Concourse |language=en-US|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref> 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 Washingtion Times |access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref>

In 2015, the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] presented [[Julia Belluz]] the Robert B. Balles Prize for Critical Thinking for her work on Vox. "We need more people in the media doing what Julia Bellux does ...".<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>

==Readership==
Vox received 8.2 million unique visitors in July 2014.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Here's What You Need to Know About Politico's Coverage of Vox, in Two Charts |first=David |last=Weigel |work=Slate |date=August, 23 2014 |accessdate=July 26, 2018 |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/08/23/here_s_what_you_need_to_know_about_politico_s_coverage_of_vox_in_two_charts.html}}</ref>

In a 2017 [[Nieman Lab]] interview, Ezra Klein stated of Vox's audience: "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...And overall our audience leans a bit left, but it doesn’t lean overwhelmingly so."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/ezra-klein-hopes-vox-can-change-the-fact-that-people-who-are-more-into-the-news-read-the-news-more/ |title=Ezra Klein hopes Vox can change the fact that “people who are more into the news read the news more” |work=Nieman Lab|access-date=November 20, 2017}}</ref>

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'''Vox''' is an American news and opinion website owned by [[Vox Media]]. The website was founded in April 2014 by [[Ezra Klein]]. Noted for its concept of explanatory journalism,<ref>{{cite web |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? |website=theguardian.com |author=James Ball |date=April 22, 2014 |accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://contently.com/strategist/2014/04/23/a-brief-history-of-explanatory-journalism/ |title=A Brief History of Explanatory Journalism |website=contently.com |author=Natalie Burg |date=April 23, 2014 |accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2016/02/29/explanatory-journalism-a-tool-in-the-war-against-polarization-and-dysfunction/ |title=Explanatory journalism: A tool in the war against polarization and dysfunction |website=brookings.edu |author=Thomas E. Mann |date=February 29, 2016 |accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref> Vox takes a [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]]-leaning editorial stance.<ref name="Bump">Philip Bump, [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/07/11/the-political-moderate-is-dead-long-live-the-moderate/ The political moderate is dead. Long live the moderate.], ''New York Times'' (July 11, 2014).</ref>

== History ==
Prior to founding Vox, [[Ezra Klein]] worked ''[[The Washington Post]]'' as the head of Wonkblog, a [[public policy]] blog.<ref name="usatoday">{{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 |date=April 7, 2014 |first=Roger |last=Yu |work=USA Today |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref> When Klein attempted to launch a new site using funding from the newsper's editors, his proposal was turned and Klein subsequently left ''The Washington Post'' for a position with [[Vox Media]], another communications company, in January 2014.<ref name="usatoday" /><ref name="NYT: joining Vox">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/business/media/ezra-klein-joining-vox-media-as-web-journalism-asserts-itself.html |accessdate=December 26, 2014 |title=Ezra Klein Is Joining Vox Media as Web Journalism Asserts Itself |last1=Carr |first1=David |authorlink=David Carr (journalist) |date=January 26, 2014 |work=The New York Times |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6V7lOyGVm?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/27/business/media/ezra-klein-joining-vox-media-as-web-journalism-asserts-itself.html?_r=0 |archivedate=December 27, 2014 |deadurl=no}}</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' described Vox Media as "a technology company that produces media" rather than its inverse, associated with "Old Media".<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /> From his new position, Klein worked towards the establishing of Vox, including hiring new journalists for the site.<ref name="usatoday" /> Klein expected to "improve the technology of news" and build an online platform better equipped for making news understandable.<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /> The new site's 20-person staff was chosen for their expertise in topic areas and included ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''{{'s}} [[Matthew Yglesias]], [[Melissa Bell (journalist)|Melissa Bell]], and Klein's colleagues from ''The Washington Post''.<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /><ref>[http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/voxcom_is_going_to_be_a_great_test_ezra_klein_critique_journalism.php Vox.com is going to be a great test of Ezra Klein’s critique of journalism], ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' (April 7, 2014).</ref> Vox was launched on April 6, 2014.<ref name="usatoday" />

Klein serves as Vox's [[editor-in-chief]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/authors/ezra-klein |title=Ezra Klein Editor-in-Chief |author= |date= |website=vox.com |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=January 30, 2017}}</ref> His opening [[editorial]] essay, "How politics makes us stupid", explained his distress about political polarization in the context of [[Yale Law School]] professor [[Dan Kahan]]'s theories on how people protect themselves from information that conflicts with their core beliefs.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/04/journalism-and-democracy |title=Ezra Klein's strangled Vox |date=April 11, 2014 |newspaper=The Economist |issn=0013-0613|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>

In June 2016, Vox suspended contributor [[Emmett Rensin]] for a series of tweets calling for anti-Trump [[riots]], including one on June 3, 2016 that urged, "If Trump comes to your town, start a riot." The tweets drew attention after violent [[Protests of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|anti-Trump protests]] took place in [[San Jose, California]] on the day of Rensin's tweet.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/03/media/vox-editor-suspended-trump-riots/index.html |title=Vox suspends editor for encouraging riots at Donald Trump rallies |date=June 3, 2016 |publisher=CNN |last1=Byers |first1=Dylan|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-vox-suspends-editor-1464984232-htmlstory.html |title=Vox suspends editor who called for anti-Trump riots |date=June 3, 2016 |publisher=Los Angeles Times |last1=Halper |first1=Evan|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/emmettrensin/status/738583628855156742 |title=Advice: If Trump comes to your town, start a riot. |date=June 2, 2016 |type=[[Twitter]] post|access-date=June 2, 2016 |author=Emmett Rensin [emmettrensin]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/06/03/what-will-a-suspension-do-for-a-vox-editor-who-urged-anti-trump-riots/ |title=What will a suspension do for a Vox editor who urged anti-Trump riots? |date=June 3, 2016 |publisher=Washington Post |last1=Wemple |first1=Eric|access-date=June 5, 2016}}</ref> [[Elizabeth Plank]] was hired in 2016 as a political correspondent,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vox-snags-mics-elizabeth-plank-871624 |title=Vox Snags Mic's Elizabeth Plank for Election Coverage |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=March 1, 2016 |access-date=June 24, 2017}}</ref> and in 2017 launched her own series with Vox Media, called ''Divided States of Women''.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vox-media-launching-video-series-focused-women-1046001 |title=Vox Media Launching New Video Series Focused on Women |first=Jeremy |last=Barr |date=October 5, 2017 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref>

In September 2017, Vox announced that Ezra Klein would be taking a new role as editor-at-large, and that Klein's deputy, Lauren Williams, would be named editor-in-chief.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/26/media/ezra-klein-vox-lauren-williams/index.html |title=Lauren Williams named editor in chief of Vox; Ezra Klein to be editor at large |last=Stelter |first=Brian |work=CNN Money|access-date=September 29, 2017}}</ref>

== Content ==
Vox's mission is to "explain the news", meaning it strives to make sure its readers "understand what just happened," by providing "contextual information that traditional news stories aren't designed to carry."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Klein |first1=Ezra |last2=Bell |first2=Melissa |last3=Yglesias |first3=Matt |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/3/28/5559144/nine-questions-about-vox |title=Nine questions about Vox |work=Vox |date=March 9, 2014 |accessdate=February 22, 2018}}</ref> 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".<ref name="NYT: melding">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/business/media/voxcom-takes-melding-of-journalism-and-technology-to-next-level.html?_r=0 |accessdate=December 26, 2014 |title=Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level |last1=Kaufman |first1=Leslie |date=April 6, 2014 |work=The New York Times |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6V7lIdtpR?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/business/media/voxcom-takes-melding-of-journalism-and-technology-to-next-level.html?_r=1 |archivedate=December 27, 2014 |deadurl=no}}</ref> As an example, a card about the term "insurance exchange" may be reused on stories about the [[Affordable Care Act]].<ref name="NYT: melding" />

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.<ref name="NYT: melding" /> Vox Media's properties target educated households with six-figure incomes and a head of house less than 35 years old.<ref name="NYT: melding" />

Vox produced a [[web series]], ''Explained'', which debuted in 2018 as part of a partnership with [[Netflix]].<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/40575395/voxs-netflix-ambitions-are-just-the-beginning |title=Vox's new Netflix show is just the start of its video ambitions |date=May 23, 2018 |first=Cale Guthrie |last=Weissman |work=Fast Company |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref>

==Editorial stance==
Vox takes an [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]]-leaning editorial stance.<ref name="Bump" /> ''New York Times'' columnist [[Ross Douthat]], writing in 2016, described Vox as "mostly liberal".<ref>Ross Douthat, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/opinion/sunday/the-bill-clinton-question.html The Bill Clinton Question], ''New York Times'' (January 17, 2016).</ref>

== YouTube ==
Vox has a YouTube channel by the same name where they have regularly posted videos on news and informational subjects since 2014.<ref name="VoxYTabout" /> 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.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://digiday.com/media/vox-com-tripled-youtube-viewership-one-year/ |title=How YouTube latecomer Vox beat the odds and built a big channel |first=Sahil |last=Patel |date=May 15, 2017 |work=Digiday |accessdate=July 26, 2018}}</ref> The channel has over 4.6 million subscribers and over one billion views as of late August 2018.<ref name="VoxYTabout">{{Cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/about |title=Vox Channel About Page |website=youtube.com|access-date=April 30, 2018}}</ref>

Content surrounds both current affairs, timeline of certain events, and interesting facts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/featured |title=Vox Channel Home Page |website=youtube.com |accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref> In May 2018, Vox partnered with [[Netflix]] to release a weekly TV show called ''[[Explained (TV series)|Explained]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.recode.net/2018/5/24/17386554/vox-netflix-explained-ezra-klein-explainer-video-youtube-peter-kafka-media-podcast |title=Why Vox’s Netflix show ‘Explained’ is different from Vox’s YouTube videos, explained (by Ezra Klein) |work=Recode|access-date=August 29, 2018}}</ref>

== Podcasts ==
Vox distributes six podcasts, all hosted by Vox staff:<ref name="Podcasts">{{cite web |title=Podcasts |url=https://www.vox.com/pages/podcasts |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''The Weeds'' is a twice-weekly [[round table (discussion)|roundtable]] podcast, hosted by Klein, Yglesias, and healthcare policy correspondent Sarah Kliff, focusing on U.S. national news with a focus on the fine details of public policy.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=The Weeds |url=https://www.vox.com/the-weeds |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''The Ezra Klein Show'' is a weekly interview podcast in which Klein interviews guests in politics and media.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Ezra Klein Show |url=https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''I Think You're Interesting'' is a weekly interview podcast about the arts, entertainment, and pop culture, hosted by Vox's "critic at large" Todd VanDerWerff.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=I Think You're Interesting |url=https://www.vox.com/i-think-youre-interesting |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''Worldly'' is 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.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Worldly |url=https://www.vox.com/worldly |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''The Impact'' is a weekly narrative podcast hosted by Kliff investigating the effects of policy decisions in practice.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Impact |url=https://www.vox.com/the-impact |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>
* ''Today, Explained'' is a daily podcast, hosted by Sean Ramaswaram, providing short explanations of items in the news.<ref name="Podcasts" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Today, Explained |url=https://www.vox.com/today-explained |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=March 2, 2018}}</ref>

== 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 it had published.<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 using [[clickbait]]-style headlines to enhance shareability and to act as a "Wikipedia for ongoing news stories."<ref name=":5" />

Shortly after it launched, conservative writer [[David Harsanyi]] criticized the site's concept of "explanatory journalism" in an article in ''[[The Federalist (website)|The Federalist]]'' titled "How Vox makes us stupid", arguing that the website selectively chose facts, and that "explanatory journalism" inherently leaves out opposing viewpoints and different perspectives.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/08/how-vox-makes-us-stupid/ |title=How Vox makes us stupid |last=Politics|access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref> 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=http://theweek.com/articles/445880/vox-derp-intellectual-stagnation-left |title=Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left |website=[[The Week]]|access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref> ''[[The Week]]''{{'}}s Ryu Spaeth described the site's operations as, "It essentially takes the news (in other words, what is happening in the world at any given moment in time) and frames it in a way that appeals to its young, liberal audience."<ref>{{Cite news |author=Ryu Spaeth |url=http://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>

''[[The Economist]]'', commenting on Klein's launching essay "How politics makes us stupid", said the website was "bright and promising" and the premise behind the site was "profoundly honourable", and positively compared the site's mission to [[John Keats]]'s [[negative capability]].<ref name=":4" />

''[[The New York Times]]''{{'s}} [[David Carr (journalist)|David Carr]] associated Klein's exit for Vox with other "big-name journalists" leaving newspapers for digital start-ups, such as [[Walter Mossberg]] and [[Kara Swisher]] (''[[Re/code]]''), [[David Pogue]], and [[Nate Silver]].<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" />

In December 2014, the website [[Deadspin]] wrote a post listing each time Vox ran a correction for a factual error in an article.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447 |title=46 Times Vox Totally Fucked Up a Story |last=Draper |first=Kevin |newspaper=The Concourse |language=en-US|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref> 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 Washingtion Times |access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref>

In 2015, the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] presented [[Julia Belluz]] the Robert B. Balles Prize for Critical Thinking for her work on Vox. "We need more people in the media doing what Julia Bellux does ...".<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>

==Readership==
Vox received 8.2 million unique visitors in July 2014.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Here's What You Need to Know About Politico's Coverage of Vox, in Two Charts |first=David |last=Weigel |work=Slate |date=August, 23 2014 |accessdate=July 26, 2018 |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/08/23/here_s_what_you_need_to_know_about_politico_s_coverage_of_vox_in_two_charts.html}}</ref>

In a 2017 [[Nieman Lab]] interview, Ezra Klein stated of Vox's audience: "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...And overall our audience leans a bit left, but it doesn’t lean overwhelmingly so."<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/ezra-klein-hopes-vox-can-change-the-fact-that-people-who-are-more-into-the-news-read-the-news-more/ |title=Ezra Klein hopes Vox can change the fact that “people who are more into the news read the news more” |work=Nieman Lab|access-date=November 20, 2017}}</ref>

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'''Vox''' is an American news and opinion website owned by [[Vox Media]]. The website was founded in 2014 by [[Melissa Bell (journalist)|Melissa Bell]], [[Matthew Yglesias]], and [[Ezra Klein]]. Vox is noted for its concept of explanatory journalism.<ref name="GuardianGoldenAge">{{cite web|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?|website=theguardian.com|author=James Ball|date= April 22, 2014|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://contently.com/strategist/2014/04/23/a-brief-history-of-explanatory-journalism/|title=A Brief History of Explanatory Journalism|website=contently.com|author=Natalie Burg|date=April 23, 2014|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2016/02/29/explanatory-journalism-a-tool-in-the-war-against-polarization-and-dysfunction/|title=Explanatory journalism: A tool in the war against polarization and dysfunction|website=brookings.edu|author=Thomas E. Mann|date=February 29, 2016|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>

== History ==
[[Ezra Klein]] left ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in January 2014 for a position with [[Vox Media]], the publishers of the sports website ''[[SB Nation]]'', technology website ''[[The Verge]]'', and video gaming website ''[[Polygon (website)|Polygon]]''.<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /> ''[[The New York Times]]'' described Vox Media as "a technology company that produces media" rather than its inverse, associated with "Old Media".<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /> Klein expected to "improve the technology of news" and build an online platform better equipped for making news understandable.<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /> The new site's 20-person staff was chosen for their expertise in topic areas and included ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''{{'s}} [[Matthew Yglesias]], Melissa Bell, and Klein's colleagues from ''The Washington Post''.<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" /><ref name="CJR">[http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/voxcom_is_going_to_be_a_great_test_ezra_klein_critique_journalism.php Vox.com is going to be a great test of Ezra Klein’s critique of journalism], ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' (April 7, 2014).</ref>

Vox launched in early April 2014 with Klein as its editor-in-chief.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/authors/ezra-klein |title=Ezra Klein Editor-in-Chief|author=|date=|website=vox.com|publisher=Vox Media|accessdate=January 30, 2017}}</ref> His opening [[editorial]] essay, "How politics makes us stupid", explained his distress about political polarization in the context of [[Yale Law School]] professor [[Dan Kahan]]'s theories on how people protect themselves from information that conflicts with their core beliefs.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/04/journalism-and-democracy|title=Ezra Klein's strangled Vox|date=April 11, 2014|newspaper=The Economist|issn=0013-0613|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref>

In June 2016, Vox suspended contributor [[Emmett Rensin]] for a series of tweets calling for anti-Trump [[riots]], including one on June 3, 2016 that urged, "If Trump comes to your town, start a riot." The tweets drew attention after violent [[Protests of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016|anti-Trump protests]] took place in [[San Jose, California]] on the day of Rensin's tweet.<ref name="ByersSuspended">{{cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/03/media/vox-editor-suspended-trump-riots/index.html|title=Vox suspends editor for encouraging riots at Donald Trump rallies|date=June 3, 2016|publisher=CNN|last1=Byers|first1=Dylan|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref><ref name="CalledForRiots">{{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trailguide-vox-suspends-editor-1464984232-htmlstory.html|title=Vox suspends editor who called for anti-Trump riots|date=June 3, 2016|publisher=Los Angeles Times|last1=Halper|first1=Evan|access-date=June 3, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/emmettrensin/status/738583628855156742|title=Advice: If Trump comes to your town, start a riot.|date=June 2, 2016|type=[[Twitter]] post|access-date=June 2, 2016|author=Emmett Rensin [emmettrensin]}}</ref><ref name="Wemple">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/06/03/what-will-a-suspension-do-for-a-vox-editor-who-urged-anti-trump-riots/|title=What will a suspension do for a Vox editor who urged anti-Trump riots?|date=June 3, 2016|publisher=Washington Post|last1=Wemple|first1=Eric|access-date=June 5, 2016}}</ref> [[Elizabeth Plank]] was hired in 2016 as a political correspondent.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/vox-snags-mics-elizabeth-plank-871624 |title=Vox Snags Mic's Elizabeth Plank for Election Coverage |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date=2016-03-01 |access-date=2017-06-24 }}</ref>

In September 2017, Vox announced that Ezra Klein would be taking a new role as editor-at-large, and that Klein's deputy, Lauren Williams, would be named editor-in-chief.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/26/media/ezra-klein-vox-lauren-williams/index.html|title=Lauren Williams named editor in chief of Vox; Ezra Klein to be editor at large|last=Stelter|first=Brian|work=CNN Money|access-date=2017-09-29}}</ref>

== Content ==
Vox's mission is to "explain the news", meaning it strives to make sure its readers "understand what just happened," by providing "contextual information that traditional news stories aren't designed to carry."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Klein |first1=Ezra |last2=Bell |first2=Melissa |last3=Yglesias |first3=Matt |url=https://www.vox.com/2014/3/28/5559144/nine-questions-about-vox |title=Nine questions about Vox |work=Vox |date=March 9, 2014 |accessdate=February 22, 2018}}</ref> In order 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".<ref name="NYT: melding"/> As an example, a card about the term "insurance exchange" may be reused on stories about the [[Affordable Care Act]].<ref name="NYT: melding"/>

The site 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.<ref name="NYT: melding"/> Vox Media's properties target educated households with six-figure incomes and a head of house less than 35 years old.<ref name="NYT: melding"/>

== YouTube ==
Vox has a YouTube channel by the same name where they have regularly posted videos on news and informational subjects since 2014.<ref name="VoxYTabout"/> 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.{{cn|date=September 2017}}

The channel has over 4 million subscribers and over 889 million views as of April 2018.<ref name="VoxYTabout">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/about|title=Vox Channel About Page|website=youtube.com|access-date=April 30, 2018}}</ref>

Content surrounds both current affairs, timeline of certain events, and interesting facts.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom/featured|title=Vox Channel Home Page|website=youtube.com|accessdate=April 6, 2018}}</ref>

== Podcasts ==
Vox distributes six podcasts, all hosted by Vox staff:<ref name=Podcasts>{{cite web|title=Podcasts|url=https://www.vox.com/pages/podcasts|website=Vox|publisher=Vox Media|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref>

* ''The Weeds'' is a twice-weekly [[round table (discussion)|roundtable]] podcast, hosted by Klein, Yglesias, and healthcare policy correspondent Sarah Kliff, focusing on U.S. national news with a focus on the fine details of public policy.<ref name=Podcasts /><ref>{{cite web|title=The Weeds|url=https://www.vox.com/the-weeds|website=Vox|publisher=Vox Media|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref>
* ''The Ezra Klein Show'' is a weekly interview podcast in which Klein interviews guests in politics and media.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Ezra Klein Show|url=https://www.vox.com/ezra-klein-show-podcast|website=Vox|publisher=Vox Media|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref>
* ''I Think You're Interesting'' is a weekly interview podcast about the arts, entertainment, and pop culture, hosted by Vox's "critic at large" Todd VanDerWerff.<ref name = Podcasts /><ref>{{cite web|title=I Think You're Interesting|url=https://www.vox.com/i-think-youre-interesting|website=Vox|publisher=Vox Media|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref>
* ''Worldly'' is 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.<ref name = Podcasts /><ref>{{cite web|title=Worldly|url=https://www.vox.com/worldly|website=Vox|publisher=Vox Media|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref>
* ''The Impact'' is a weekly narrative podcast hosted by Kliff investigating the effects of policy decisions in practice.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Impact|url=https://www.vox.com/the-impact|website=Vox|publisher=Vox Media|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref>
* ''Today, Explained'' is a daily podcast, hosted by Sean Ramaswaram, providing short explanations of items in the news.<ref name = Podcasts /><ref>{{cite web|title=Today, Explained|url=https://www.vox.com/today-explained|website=Vox|publisher=Vox Media|accessdate=2 March 2018}}</ref>

== 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 it had published.<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 using "[[Upworthy]]" style headlines to enhance shareability and to act as a "Wikipedia for ongoing news stories."<ref name=":5" />

Shortly after it launched, conservative writer [[David Harsanyi]] criticized the site's concept of "explanatory journalism" in an article in ''[[The Federalist (website)|The Federalist]]'' titled "How Vox makes us stupid", arguing that the website selectively chose facts, and that "explanatory journalism" inherently leaves out opposing viewpoints and different perspectives.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://thefederalist.com/2014/04/08/how-vox-makes-us-stupid/|title=How Vox makes us stupid|last=Politics|access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref> 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 name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://theweek.com/articles/445880/vox-derp-intellectual-stagnation-left|title=Vox, derp, and the intellectual stagnation of the left|website=[[The Week]]|access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref> ''[[The Week]]''{{'}}s Ryu Spaeth described the site's operations as, "It essentially takes the news (in other words, what is happening in the world at any given moment in time) and frames it in a way that appeals to its young, liberal audience."<ref name=":3">{{Cite news|author=Ryu Spaeth|url=http://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>

''[[The Economist]]'', commenting on Klein's launching essay "How politics makes us stupid", said the website was "bright and promising" and the premise behind the site was "profoundly honourable", and positively compared the site's mission to [[John Keats]]'s [[negative capability]].<ref name=":4" />

''[[The New York Times]]''{{'s}} [[David Carr (journalist)|David Carr]] associated Klein's exit for Vox with other "big-name journalists" leaving newspapers for digital start-ups, such as [[Walter Mossberg]] and [[Kara Swisher]] (''[[Re/code]]''), [[David Pogue]], and [[Nate Silver]].<ref name="NYT: joining Vox" />

In December 2014, the website [[Deadspin]] wrote a post listing each time Vox ran a correction for a factual error in an article.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/46-times-vox-totally-fucked-up-a-story-1673835447|title=46 Times Vox Totally Fucked Up a Story|last=Draper|first=Kevin|newspaper=The Concourse|language=en-US|access-date=November 4, 2016}}</ref> In an opinion piece in ''[[The Washington Times]]'', [[Christopher J. Harper]] criticized the site for numerous reporting mistakes.<ref name=":2">{{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 Washingtion Times |access-date=March 17, 2016}}</ref>

In 2015, the [[Committee for Skeptical Inquiry]] presented [[Julia Belluz]] the Robert B. Balles Prize for Critical Thinking for her work on Vox. "We need more people in the media doing what Julia Bellux does ...".<ref name="Sept-Oct Issue">{{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>

==Readership==
In June 2015, Vox had 54.1 million unique visitors, of which 41% were between the ages of 18 and 34, according to comScore Inc.<ref name="wsjvox">Alpert, Lukas I. [https://blogs.wsj.com/cmo/2015/08/12/comcast-invests-200-million-in-vox-media-valuing-digital-media-firm-at-1-billion/ Comcast Invests $200 Million in Vox Media]. ''The Wall Street Journal''. August 12, 2015. Accessed on 2016-06-26.</ref>

In a 2017 [[Nieman Lab]] interview, Ezra Klein stated of Vox's audience: "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...And overall our audience leans a bit left, but it doesn’t lean overwhelmingly so."<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/ezra-klein-hopes-vox-can-change-the-fact-that-people-who-are-more-into-the-news-read-the-news-more/|title=Ezra Klein hopes Vox can change the fact that “people who are more into the news read the news more”|work=Nieman Lab|access-date=2017-11-20}}</ref>

== References ==
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| name = Magnitsky Act
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| introducedby = [[Dave Camp]] ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]]-[[Michigan|MI]])
| introduceddate = July 19, 2012
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The '''Magnitsky Act''', formally known as the '''Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012''', is a bipartisan bill passed by the [[U.S. Congress]] and signed by President [[Barack Obama|Obama]] in December 2012, intending to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Russian [[tax accountant]] [[Sergei Magnitsky]] in a [[Moscow]] prison in 2009.

Since 2016 the bill, which applies globally, "authorizes governments to sanction human rights offenders in Russia, freeze their foreign assets, and ban them from entering the signing country."<ref name="broad">{{cite web
| title = Putin hinted he wanted Trump to give him access to one man — and it reveals his greatest weakness
| publisher = Business Insider
| author = Alexandra Ma
| date = July 17, 2018
| url = http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-putin-bill-browder-magnitsky-act-press-conference-2018-7?utm_content=buffer1202b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer-bi}}</ref>

==Background==

In 2009, Russian tax accountant [[Sergei Magnitsky]] died in a Moscow prison after investigating a $230 million fraud involving Russian tax officials.<ref name="Eckel 2017"/> Magnitsky was accused of committing the fraud himself and detained.<ref name="Eckel 2017">{{cite news | last=Eckel | first=Mike | title=U.S. Settles Magnitsky-Linked Money Laundering Case On Eve Of Trial | work=[[RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty]] | date=May 13, 2017 | url=https://www.rferl.org/a/magnitsky-prevezon-u-s-settlement-6-million/28483793.html | access-date=March 10, 2018}}</ref> While in prison, Magnitsky developed [[gall stones]], [[pancreatitis]] and [[Cholecystitis|calculous cholecystitis]] and was refused medical treatment for months. After almost a year of imprisonment, he [[Sergei Magnitsky#Death in custody|was beaten to death]] while in custody.<ref name=Bbc2012-12-07>
{{cite news| url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-20626960| title= Q&A: The Magnitsky affair| work= [[BBC News]]
| date = July 11, 2013| accessdate = March 10, 2018}}</ref><ref name=PerthNow2012-12-27>
{{cite news|url= http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/world/russia-puts-dead-lawyer-magnitsky-on-trial/story-fnd14032-1226544326077|title = Russia puts dead lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial|work=[[Perth Now]]
| agency= [[Agence France-Presse|AFP]]| date= December 27, 2012|archivedate = January 1, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101123649/http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/world/russia-puts-dead-lawyer-magnitsky-on-trial/story-fnd14032-1226544326077}}</ref><ref name=TheAtlantic2017-07-05>
{{cite news| url= https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bill-browders-testimony-to-the-senate-judiciary-committee/534864/| title= Bill Browder's Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee|work=[[The Atlantic]]| first= Rosie|last= Gray| date= July 25, 2017| accessdate =July 31, 2017|quote = "... they put him in an isolation cell, chained him to a bed, and eight riot guards came in and beat him with rubber batons. That night he was found dead on the cell floor."}}</ref> [[Bill Browder]], a prominent American-born businessman and friend of Magnitsky, publicized the case and lobbied American officials to pass legislation sanctioning Russian individuals involved in corruption. Browder brought the case to Senators [[Benjamin Cardin]] and [[John McCain]] who proceeded to propose legislation.<ref name="Trindle 2014">{{cite news|last=Trindle|first=Jamila|title=The Magnitsky Flip-Flop|work=[[Foreign Policy]] | date=May 15, 2014|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/05/15/the-magnitsky-flip-flop/|access-date=March 10, 2018}}</ref>

==Law==
In June 2012, the [[United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs]] reported to the House a bill called the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 (H.R. 4405).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/story/?2401|title=Russia Human Rights Legislation Passes Foreign Affairs Committee|work=[[United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs]]|date= June 7, 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130110194137/http://archives.republicans.foreignaffairs.house.gov/news/story/?2401|archivedate=January 10, 2013}}</ref> The main intention of the law was to punish Russian officials who were thought to be responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky by prohibiting their entrance to the United States and their use of its banking system.<ref name=WP2012/> The legislation was taken up by a [[United States Senate|Senate]] panel the next week, sponsored by Senator [[Ben Cardin]], and cited in a broader review of the mounting tensions in the international relationship.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Baker, Peter|authorlink1=Peter Baker (author)|title=Syria Crisis and Putin’s Return Chill U.S. Ties With Russia|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/world/europe/putins-return-brings-rapid-chill-to-us-russia-ties.html|accessdate=March 10, 2018|work=[[New York Times]]|date=June 13, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Belton |first1=Catherine |last2=Dyer|first2=Geoff|url=https://www.ft.com/content/e2bcc8b6-bfac-11e1-8bf2-00144feabdc0 |title=‘Magnitsky law’ makes progress in Senate |work=[[Financial Times]] |date=June 26, 2012 |accessdate=December 18, 2012}}</ref>

In November 2012, provisions of the Magnitsky bill were attached to a House bill (H.R. 6156) normalizing trade with Russia (i.e., repealing the [[Jackson–Vanik amendment]]) and [[Moldova]].<ref name=NYT111612>{{cite news|title=House Passes Russia Trade Bill With Eye on Rights Abuses|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/world/americas/house-votes-to-increase-trade-with-russia.html|accessdate=November 17, 2012|work=[[New York Times]]|date=November 16, 2012|author=Peters, Jeremy W.}}</ref> On December 6, 2012, the U.S. Senate passed the House version of the law, 92-4.<ref name=WP2012>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/us-passes-magnitsky-bill-aimed-at-russia/2012/12/06/262a5bba-3fd5-11e2-bca3-aadc9b7e29c5_story.html|title=Russia fumes as U.S. Senate passes Magnitsky law aimed at human rights|date=December 6, 2012|accessdate=December 11, 2012|work=[[Washington Post]]|first1=Kathy|last1=Lally|first2=Will|last2=Englund}}</ref> The law was signed by President [[Barack Obama]] on December 14, 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/12/14/statement-press-secretary-hr-6156 |title=Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 6156 |website=ObamaWhiteHouse.archives.gov|publisher=[[The White House]] |date=December 14, 2012 |accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_12_15/Russia-US-Normalization-fraught-with-conflict/|title=Russia-US: Normalization fraught with conflict|work=[[Voice of Russia]]|author=Fedyashin, Andrey|date=December 15, 2012 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028180733/http://voiceofrussia.com//2012_12_15/Russia-US-Normalization-fraught-with-conflict/|archivedate=October 28, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Obama signs Magnitsky Act linked with Jackson–Vanik Amendment termination|url=http://www.interfax.com/newsinf.asp?id=383015|work=[[Interfax]]|date=December 14, 2012|accessdate=December 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Obama Signs Magnitsky Bill|url=https://themoscowtimes.com/news/obama-signs-magnitsky-bill-20207|work=[[The Moscow Times]]|accessdate=March 10, 2018|date=December 17, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ifTJR_NiuSC0kkGDgBkKJjDDYSqQ?docId=CNG.1a7e217111e4906ef1b6b3e54e79e1b0.141 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121218222752/https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ifTJR_NiuSC0kkGDgBkKJjDDYSqQ?docId=CNG.1a7e217111e4906ef1b6b3e54e79e1b0.141|title=Obama signs Russia rights law despite Putin fury |first=Stephen |last=Collinson|work=[[Agence France-Presse|AFP]] |date=December 14, 2012 |archivedate=December 18, 2012}}</ref>

In 2016, Congress enacted the Global Magnitsky Act which allows the US Government to sanction foreign government officials implicated in human rights abuses anywhere in the world.<ref name=HRW>{{cite web|title=The US Global Magnitsky Act: Questions and Answers|url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/09/13/us-global-magnitsky-act|website=[[Human Rights Watch]]|accessdate=November 27, 2017|date=September 13, 2017}}</ref>

==Individuals affected==
The Obama administration made public a list of 18 individuals affected by the Act in April 2013.<ref>{{cite web|title=Magnitsky Sanctions Listings|url=https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20130412.aspx|website=[[United States Department of the Treasury]]|date=April 12, 2013|accessdate=March 10, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Factbox: Who's who on the U.S. Magnitsky list|url=https://news.yahoo.com/factbox-whos-u-magnitsky-list-220046497.html|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130416061627/https://news.yahoo.com/factbox-whos-u-magnitsky-list-220046497.html|work=[[Yahoo! News]]|date=April 12, 2013|archivedate=April 16, 2013|agency=[[Reuters]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Magnitsky List release: severe blow on Moscow-US ties|date=April 12, 2013|work=[[Voice of Russia]]|url=http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_04_12/Magnitsky-List-release-severe-blow-on-Moscow-US-ties/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617090515/http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_04_12/Magnitsky-List-release-severe-blow-on-Moscow-US-ties/|archivedate=June 17, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Chechnya moves to silence Oyub Titiev, a courageous critic|url=https://www.economist.com/news/europe/21734932-after-chechen-human-rights-defender-predicted-state-would-plant-drugs-him-police-claim|work=[[The Economist]]|date=January 17, 2018|accessdate=January 18, 2018}}</ref> The people included on the list are:
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
*Artem (aka Artyom) Kuznetsov, a tax investigator for the Moscow division of the [[Ministry of Internal Affairs (Russia)|Ministry of Internal Affairs]]
*Pavel Karpov, a senior investigator for the Moscow division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs
*Oleg F. Silchenko, a senior investigator for the Ministry of Internal Affairs
*Olga Stepanova, head of Moscow Tax Office No. 28
*{{ill|Yelena Stashina|ru|Сташина, Елена Владимировна}}, [[Tverskoy District|Tverskoy]] [[Judiciary of Russia#District courts|District Court]] judge who prolonged Magnitsky's detention
*Andrey Pechegin, deputy head of the investigation supervision division of the general prosecutor's office
*Aleksey Droganov
*Yelena Khimina, Moscow tax official
*Dmitriy Komnov, head of Butyrka Detention Center
*Aleksey Krivoruchko, Tverskoy District Court judge
*{{ill|Oleg Logunov|ru|Логунов, Олег Владимирович}}
*Sergei G. Podoprigorov, Tverskoy District Court judge
*Ivan Pavlovitch Prokopenko
*Dmitri M. Tolchinskiy
*Svetlana Ukhnalyova
*Natalya V. Vinogradova
*Felix Bautista, senator for the province of San Juan, Dominican Republic.
*Angel Rondon Former Commercial Representative of Odebrecht, Dominican Republic.
*Kazbek Dukuzov, Chechen acquitted of the murder of [[Paul Klebnikov]]
*Lecha Bogatyrov, implicated by Austrian authorities as the murderer of [[Umar Israilov]]
*[[Ramzan Kadyrov]], Head of the Chechen Republic
*Roberto J. Rivas, head of the [[Supreme Electoral Council (Nicaragua)|Supreme Electoral Council]] of Nicaragua, accused of electoral fraud in at least six elections. Rivas is considered one of the wealthiest person in the second poorest country in the western hemisphere.
* Francisco "Chico" Lopez, treasurer of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas Party and Head of Albanisa, a holding of companies made out of the Venezuelan aid
* Fidel Moreno, de facto Mayor of Managua
* Francisco Diaz, head of the Nicaraguan police.
{{div col end}}

==Russian government reaction==

In response to the adoption of the Magnitsky Act, the Russian government [[Dima Yakovlev Law|denied Americans adoption of Russian children]], issued a list of US officials prohibited from entering Russia, and posthumously convicted Magnitsky as guilty.<ref>{{cite news|title=Dead Russian lawyer Magnitsky found guilty|url=http://bigstory.ap.org/article/dead-russian-lawyer-magnitsky-found-guilty|agency=[[Associated Press]]|first=Jim|last=Heintz|date=July 11, 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130714160622/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/dead-russian-lawyer-magnitsky-found-guilty|archivedate=July 14, 2013}}</ref> In addition, the Russian government reportedly lobbied against the legislation acting through a public relations company led by [[Kenneth Duberstein]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Kredo, Adam |url=http://freebeacon.com/politics/bank-of-putin/ |title=Bank of Putin: Goldman Sachs lobbying against human rights legislation |work=[[The Washington Free Beacon]] |date=July 19, 2012 |accessdate=December 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Абаринов|first1=Владимир|title=Противозаконное задержание|url=https://graniru.org/opinion/abarinov/m.199413.html|website=Graniru.org|accessdate=March 11, 2018|language=Russian|date=August 3, 2012}}</ref>

===Ban on U.S. adoption of Russian children===
{{main|Dima Yakovlev Law}}
On December 19, 2012, the [[State Duma]] voted 400 to 4 to ban the [[international adoption]] of Russian children into the United States. The bill was unofficially named after Dmitri Yakovlev (Chase Harrison), a Russian toddler who accidentally died of [[heat stroke]] in 2008 when his adoptive American father forgot he was in the back seat of his SUV.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/world/europe/russia-votes-to-ban-all-adoptions-by-americans.html|title=Russia Vote Favors Ban on Adoptions by Americans|first=David M.|last=Herszenhorn|date=December 19, 2012|accessdate=December 20, 2012|work=[[New York Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=Jackman, Tom|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/toddlers-tragic-death-in-herndon-in-overheated-car-continues-as-political-issue-in-russia-four-years-later/2012/12/12/c6a6c9c6-43e4-11e2-9648-a2c323a991d6_blog.html|title=Toddler’s tragic death in Herndon, in overheated car, continues as political issue in Russia four years later|work=[[Washington Post]]|date=December 12, 2012|accessdate=December 20, 2012}}</ref> Other recent developments include the proposition of a law to prevent US citizens from working with political [[Non-governmental organization|NGOs]] in Russia and a proposition of a law, recently abandoned, preventing any foreigner from speaking on state television if they discredited the state.<ref>{{cite news|author=J.Y. |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2013/01/russian-politics?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/thekremlinsnewantiamericanism |title=Russian politics: The Kremlin's new Anti-Americanism |work=[[The Economist]] |date=January 30, 2013 |accessdate=April 14, 2013}}</ref>

===Banning some U.S. officials from Russia===
{{main|Guantanamo list}}
On April 13, 2013, Russia released a list naming 18 Americans banned from entering the Russian Federation over their alleged human rights violations, as a direct response to the Magnitsky list.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite news|work=[[RT (TV network)|RT]] |url=https://www.rt.com/news/anti-magnitsky-list-russia-799/ |title=Russia strikes back with Magnitsky list response|date=April 13, 2013|accessdate=April 14, 2013}}</ref> The people banned from Russia are listed below:

US officials involved in legalizing [[enhanced interrogation techniques|torture]] and indefinite detention of prisoners:
*[[David Addington]], Chief of Staff to Vice President [[Dick Cheney]] (2005–2009)
*[[John Yoo]], Assistant US Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice (2001–2003)
*[[Geoffrey D. Miller]], retired US Army Major General, commandant of [[Joint Task Force Guantanamo]] (JTF-GTMO), the organization that runs the [[Guantanamo Bay detention camp]]s (2002–2003)
*[[Jeffrey Harbeson]], US Navy officer, commandant of JTF-GTMO (2010–2012)

The Russian lawmakers also banned several U.S. officials involved in the prosecution and trial of Russian arms smuggler [[Viktor Bout]] and drug smuggler Konstantin Yaroshenko, both serving prison time in the United States:<ref>{{cite news|author=Englund, Will |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russia-bans-american-officials-in-retaliatory-move/2013/04/13/9de797ae-a429-11e2-9c03-6952ff305f35_story.html |title=Russia retaliates against U.S., bans American officials |work=[[Washington Post]] |date=April 13, 2013 |accessdate=April 14, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Loiko |first=Sergei L. |url=http://articles.latimes.com/2013/apr/13/world/la-fg-wn-18-americans-barred-from-russia-in-titfortat-sanctions-20130413 |title=18 Americans barred from Russia in tit-for-tat sanctions |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=April 13, 2013 |accessdate=April 14, 2013}}</ref>
*[[Jed Rakoff]], Senior US District Judge for the [[United States District Court for the Southern District of New York|Southern District of New York]]
*[[Preet Bharara]], former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
*[[Michael J. Garcia]], former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
*Brendan R. McGuire, Assistant US Attorney
*Anjan S. Sahni, Assistant US Attorney
*Christian R. Everdell, Assistant US Attorney
*Jenna Minicucci Dabbs, Assistant US Attorney
*Christopher L. Lavigne, Assistant US Attorney
*Michael Max Rosensaft, Assistant US Attorney
*Louis J. Milione, Special Agent, US [[Drug Enforcement Administration]] (DEA)
*Sam Gaye, Senior Special Agent, US DEA
*Robert F. Zachariasiewicz, Special Agent, US DEA
*Derek S. Odney, Special Agent, US DEA
*Gregory A. Coleman, Special Agent, US [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

==Trump campaign–Russian meeting==
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In June 2016, a Russian lawyer, [[Natalia Veselnitskaya]], who was hired to lobby against the Magnitsky Act in the US, set up a Trump campaign–Russia meeting with Donald Trump, Jr., purportedly to discuss altering the Russian Duma's sanctions against American adoption of Russian children along with other alleged illegal activities. On July 11, 2017, Reuters US reported that at the meeting {{nowrap|"[Russia]}} offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary [Clinton] and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to [Trump Jr.'s] father".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sullivan|first1=Andy|last2=Mohammed|first2=Arshad|title=Trump Jr. emails suggest he welcomed Russian help against Clinton|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-emails/trump-jr-emails-suggest-he-welcomed-russian-help-against-clinton-idUSKBN19W1VW|accessdate=March 11, 2018|work=[[Reuters]]|date=July 11, 2017}}</ref> Donald Trump Jr. insisted that Veselnitskaya did not reveal any damaging information about Secretary Clinton, contrary to what his correspondence had suggested. Trump Jr. subsequently released to the public via Twitter his personal records and correspondence between the Trump campaign team and [[Rob Goldstone]], a longtime business partner and friend of Trump Sr. who actively represents several Russian interests and who had first pitched the meeting to Trump Jr.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Watkins|first1=Ali|title=U.S. officials probing Russian lobbyist who met Trump team|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/14/russia-lobbyist-rinat-akhmetshin-us-investigation-240562|accessdate=March 11, 2018|work=[[Politico]]|date=July 14, 2017}}</ref>

==Reception==
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Australian expatriate jurist [[Geoffrey Robertson]], who is representing some of the Magnitsky campaigners, has described the Act as "one of the most important new developments in human rights". He says it provides "a way of getting at the Auschwitz train drivers, the [[apparatchik]]s, the people who make a little bit of money from human rights abuses and generally keep under the radar".<ref>{{cite web|title=International human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson speaks on fate of Assange|url=https://www.humanrights.gov.au/news/stories/international-human-rights-lawyer-geoffrey-robertson-speaks-fate-assange|website=[[Australian Human Rights Commission]]|accessdate=March 11, 2018|date=December 18, 2012}}</ref>

[[State Duma]] deputy Yevgeny Fedorov argued that the real purpose of the Magnitsky bill was to manipulate key figures in big business and government, with the aim of pro-American policy in the [[Russian Federation]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Фёдоров|first1=Евгений|title=Список Магнитского – манипуляция|url=http://tv.russia.ru/video/diskurs_13815/|accessdate=March 11, 2018|work=Russia.ru|date=November 29, 2012|language=Russian}}</ref>

The Ministry of Internal Affairs Directorate for Special Affairs in the U.K. stated that it is aware of those on the list. The U.K. bans travel of those on the list under existing legislation which prohibits entry for those implicated in cases of human rights violations.<ref name=PRU7913>{{cite news|first=Anton|last= Kulikov|title=Will Britain sing America's anti-Russian tunes?|url=http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/politics/09-07-2013/125073-britain_russia-0/|work=[[Pravda.ru]]|accessdate=March 11, 2013|date=July 9, 2013}}</ref>

The ''[[World Socialist Web Site]]'' condemned the United States for only invoking human rights as a cover for [[realpolitik]], stating that Washington had supported "far greater crimes, [such] as when Boris Yeltsin in 1993 ordered [[1993 Russian constitutional crisis|bombardment]] of the [[White House (Moscow)|Russian White House]], the seat of the country’s parliament, killing 62 people".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Van Auken|first1=Bill|title=Moscow calls Obama’s human rights bluff|url=https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/16/pers-a16.html|website=[[World Socialist Web Site]]|accessdate=March 11, 2018|date=April 16, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/1993/oct/05/russia.davidhearst|title=Yeltsin crushes revolt|last1=Hearst|first1=David|last2=Steele|first2=Jonathan|date=October 5, 1993|work=[[The Guardian]]|accessdate=February 14, 2018}}</ref>

In March 2015, the parliament of Canada passed an initial motion towards passing such a law.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Clark|first1=Campbell|title=All parties signal support for Magnitsky law to sanction Russian officials|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/all-parties-signal-support-for-magnitsky-law-to-sanction-russian-officials/article23617841/|accessdate=March 11, 2018|work=[[The Globe and Mail]]|date=March 25, 2015}}</ref>

In July 2017 on ''[[Fareed Zakaria GPS]]'' by CNN, [[Fareed Zakaria]] interviewed [[Bill Browder]], who discussed the Magnitsky Act, and topics such as why Putin is directly threatened by it, the money given by Russia government to more than 10,000 Russian human-rights abusers, the June 2016 Trump campaign–Russian meeting, and the power and influence of Russian money in Washington DC at present.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Zakaria|first1=Fareed|last2=Browder|first2=Bill|title=The Magnitsky Act and the Russia investigation|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEStb5DedNA|accessdate=March 11, 2018|work=[[CNN]]|date=July 16, 2017|format=video}}</ref>

==January 2017 blacklisting==
On January 9, 2017, under the Magnitsky Act, the [[United States Department of the Treasury|United States Treasury]]'s [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]] updated its Specially Designated Nationals List and blacklisted [[Alexander Bastrykin|Aleksandr I. Bastrykin]], [[Andrey Lugovoy|Andrei K. Lugovoi]], [[Dmitry Kovtun|Dmitri V. Kovtun]], Stanislav Gordievsky, and Gennady Plaksin, which froze any of their assets held by American financial institutions or transactions with those institutions and banned their travelling to the United States.<ref>{{cite news|last=Landler|first = Mark|author-link=Mark Landler|title =U.S. to Blacklist 5 Russians, a Close Putin Aide Among Them|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/us/politics/russian-sanctions-obama-administration.html|work=[[New York Times]]|date=January 9, 2017|accessdate=January 9, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title = Magnitsky-related Designations; Counter Terrorism Designations; Office of Foreign Assests Control: Specially Designated Nationals List Update|url = https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20170109.aspx|website=[[United States Department of the Treasury]]|date=January 9, 2017|accessdate=January 9, 2017}}</ref>

==Implementation oversight in 2017==
[[United States President|President]] [[Donald Trump]] gave a memorandum to Congress on the implementation of the act on April 21, 2017.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-crackdown-on-rights-abusers-in-russia/|title=Trump pledges crackdown on rights abusers in Russia and beyond|first=David M.|last=Herszenhorn|work=[[Politico]]|date=April 21, 2017|accessdate=April 22, 2017}}</ref>

In May 2017 US authorities settled a case against [[Fusion GPS#Prevezon Holding|Prevezon Holding]], one of the companies used for laundering the money exfiltrated from Russia as result of the fraud discovered by Sergey Magnitsky. The settlement dismissed the case, and the real-estate company agreed to pay a $5.8 million fine.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Scannell|first1=Kara|title=US strikes $5.8m deal on Russia money-laundering case|url=https://www.ft.com/content/31fd3496-3669-11e7-99bd-13beb0903fa3|accessdate=March 11, 2018|work=[[Financial Times]]|date=May 14, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lawandorderinrussia.org/2017/son-of-senior-russian-government-official-to-pay-us-5-9-million-to-the-us-treasury-in-the-first-money-laundering-action-linked-to-magnitsky-case/|title=Son of Senior Russian Government Official to Pay US$5.9 Million to the US Treasury in the First Money Laundering Action Linked to Magnitsky Case|website=LawAndOrderInRussia.org|date=May 13, 2017|accessdate=May 13, 2017|format=press release}}</ref>

Also in May 2017 an investigation was started on £6.6m that was allegedly transferred from the fraud scheme into a banking firm in the UK.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-39964545|title=Police probe UK links to Magnitsky money|last=Vardy|first=Emma|date=May 20, 2017|work=[[BBC News]]|accessdate=May 20, 2017}}</ref>

On September 8, 2017 President Trump, in a memorandum, delegated authority to alter the financial sanctions in this act to the [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]], and the issue of visas to the [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the Treasury|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-memorandum-secretary-state-secretary-treasury/|website=[[The White House]]|accessdate=March 11, 2018|date=September 8, 2017}}</ref>

==Internationalization of the Magnitsky Act==

In December 2016, Congress enlarged the scope of the Magnitsky Act to address human rights abuses on a global scale. The current Global Magnitsky Act (GMA) allows the US Government to sanction corrupt government officials implicated in abuses anywhere in the world.<ref name=HRW/>

In September 2017, a group of NGOs and anti-corruption organizations identified fifteen international cases where alleged crimes were committed. Individuals from countries, including Azerbaijan, Bahrain, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, Mexico, Panama, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam, were nominated for sanctions.<ref>{{cite web|title=NGOs Identify Human Rights Abusers, Corrupt Actors for Sanctions Under U.S. Bill|url=
https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/press-release/ngos-identify-human-rights-abusers-corrupt-actors-sanctions-under-us-bill|website=[[Human Rights First]]|accessdate=November 27, 2017|date=September 13, 2017|format=press release}}</ref>

On December 21, 2017, 13 additional names were added to the list of sanctioned individuals. This included [[Yahya Jammeh]], former president of The Gambia and [[Roberto Jose Rivas Reyes]], the president of Nicaragua’s Supreme Electoral Council.<ref>{{cite web|title=United States Sanctions Human Rights Abusers and Corrupt Actors Across the Globe|url=https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0243 |website=[[United States Department of the Treasury]]|accessdate=January 12, 2018 | date=December 21, 2017|format=press release}}</ref>

On June 12, 2018, [[Félix Bautista]], a member of the [[Senate of the Dominican Republic]] and five companies owned or controlled by him were sanctioned by the [[U.S. Department of Treasury]] under the Global Magnitsky Act due to his involvement in significant corruption. <ref>{{cite web| title=Treasury Sanctions Two Individuals and Five Entities Under Global Magnitsky Act |url=https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0411 |website=[[United States Department of the Treasury]] |accessdate=June 13, 2018 | date=June 13, 2019 |format=press release}} Bautista has been publicly accused of money laundering and embezzlement.</ref> Bautista has reportedly engaged in bribery in relation to his position as a Senator, and is alleged to have engaged in corruption in [[Haiti]], where he used his connections to win public works contracts to help rebuild [[Haiti]] following several natural disasters, including one case where his company was paid over $10 million dollars for work not completed.

On July 5, 2018, 3 additional names were added to the list. These belonging to the same country, Nicaragua. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Nicaraguan National Police Commissioner Francisco Javier Diaz Madriz (Diaz) and Secretary of the Mayor’s Office of Managua Fidel Antonio Moreno Briones (Moreno) for being responsible for, or the leaders of entities involved in, serious human rights abuse in Nicaragua.

Additionally, OFAC designated Jose Francisco Lopez Centeno (Lopez), the Vice President of ALBA de Nicaragua (ALBANISA) and President of Petronic, for engaging in corrupt activities. <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://ni.usembassy.gov/treasury-sanctions-three-nicaraguan-individuals-for-serious-human-rights-abuse-and-corrupt-acts/|title=Treasury Sanctions Three Nicaraguan Individuals for Serious Human Rights Abuse and Corrupt Acts {{!}} U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua|date=2018-07-05|work=U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua|access-date=2018-07-06|language=en-US}}</ref>

==Magnitsky Acts in other countries==

Legislation similar to, and inspired by, the December 2016 US Global Magnitsky Act has subsequently been enacted in other countries.

===Estonia===

On December 8, 2016, [[Estonia]] introduced a new law, inspired by the Sergei Magnitsky case, to ban foreigners deemed guilty of human rights abuses from entering the country. The law, which was passed unanimously in the [[Riigikogu|Estonian Parliament]], states that it entitles Estonia to forbid entry to people if, among other things, "there is information or good reason to believe" that they took part in activities which resulted in the "death or serious damage to health of a person".<ref>{{cite news|first=Andrew|last=Rettman|url=https://euobserver.com/foreign/136217|title=Estonia joins US in passing Magnitsky law|work=[[EUobserver]]|date=December 9, 2016|accessdate=October 30, 2017}}</ref>

===United Kingdom===

On February 21, 2017 the UK House of Commons unanimously passed an amendment to the country's [[Criminal Finances Act 2017|Criminal Finances Bill]] inspired by the Magnitsky Act that would allow the government to freeze the assets of international human rights violators in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/6104-uk-house-of-commons-passes-the-magnitsky-asset-freezing-sanctions|title=UK House of Commons Passes the Magnitsky Asset Freezing Sanctions|date=February 21, 2017|accessdate=November 16, 2017|website=[[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project]]}}</ref> On May 1, 2018, the UK House of Commons, without opposition, added the "Magnitsky amendment" to the [[Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018|Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill]] that would allow the British government to impose sanctions on people who commit gross human rights violations.<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-russia-magnitsky/uk-lawmakers-back-magnitsky-amendment-on-sanctions-for-human-rights-abuses-idUSKBN1I24BI</ref>

===Canada===

In May 2017, the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Russia)|Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] warned [[Canada]] that its anticipated new law, known as ''The Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Bill (Sergei Magnitsky Law)'', was a "blatantly unfriendly step", and that "If the [[Parliament of Canada|Canadian Parliament]] approves this sanctions legislation, the relations between our countries, which are already experiencing difficult times, will suffer significant damage". [[CBC News]] in Canada also reported that Russia has placed Canada's Foreign Minister, [[Chrystia Freeland]], and twelve other Canadian politicians and activists on a [[Moscow Kremlin|Kremlin]] 'blacklist' and has barred them from entering Russia because of their criticism of Russian actions in [[Ukraine]] and its annexation of [[Crimea]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Levon|last=Sevunts|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/russia-warns-canada-magnitsky-1.4122758|title=Russia warns Canada over 'blatantly unfriendly' Magnitsky Act|work=[[CBC News]]|date=May 18, 2017|accessdate=October 29, 2017}}</ref>

On October 19, 2017, the Canadian Parliament passed the Bill into law,<ref>{{cite news|title=Canada Passes Version Of Magnitsky Act, Raising Moscow’s Ire|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/canada-passes-magnistky-act-russia-sanctions/28804814.html|accessdate=October 23, 2017|work=[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]]|date=October 19, 2017}}</ref> after a unanimous vote in Canada's [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]], with 277 for, and none against.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-russia-magnitsky-bill-1.4321562|title=As Canada's Magnitsky bill nears final vote, Russia threatens retaliation|work=[[CBC News]]|agency=[[Thomson Reuters]]|date=October 4, 2017|accessdate=October 30, 2017}}</ref> Russia's President, [[Vladimir Putin]], accused Canada of "political games" over its new Magnitsky law.<ref>{{cite news|first= Mike |last=Blanchfield|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/3816237/vladimir-putin-canada-magnitsky-law/|title=Vladimir Putin accuses Canada of ‘political games’ over Magnitsky law|work=[[Global News]]|agency=[[The Canadian Press]]|date=October 20, 2017|accessdate=October 31, 2017}}</ref>

Canada's Magnitsky Act also targeted 19 Venezuelan and 3 South Sudanese officials, along with the original 30 Russian individuals under sanctions.<ref>{{cite news|title=Russia, South Sudan and Venezuela are Canada's 1st targets using sanctions under Magnitsky Act|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/russia-south-sudan-venezuela-magnitsky-sanctions-1.4386477|accessdate=March 11, 2018|work=[[CBC News]]|date=November 3, 2017}}</ref>

===Lithuania===

On November 9, 2017 the [[Seimas|Parliament of Lithuania]] approved for discussion relevant amendments to the law, with 78 votes in support, one against and five abstentions. Finally, on November 16, 2017 (the 8th anniversary of Sergei Magnitsky’s death) the [[Seimas|Parliament of Lithuania]] passed the law unanimously.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/7265-lithuania-parliament-adopts-version-of-magnitsky-act |title=Lithuania: Parliament Adopts Version of Magnitsky Act |work=[[OCCRP]] |date=November 16, 2017 |accessdate=July 18, 2018}}</ref>

===Latvia===
On February 8, 2018, [[Parliament of Latvia]] (Saeima) accepted attachment of law of sanctions, inspired by the Sergei Magnitsky case, to ban foreigners deemed guilty of human rights abuses from entering the country.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/7621-latvia-becomes-final-baltic-state-to-pass-magnitsky-law |title=Latvia Becomes Final Baltic State to Pass Magnitsky Law |work=[[OCCRP]] |date=February 9, 2018 |accessdate=July 18, 2018}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Dima Yakovlev Law]]
*[[International sanctions during the Ukrainian crisis]]
*[[Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act]]

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |first=Bill |last=Browder |year=2015 |title=Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice |location= |publisher=Simon & Schuster |edition=Reprint |isbn=978-1-4767-5574-8 }}
* {{cite journal |first=Emma |last=Gilligan |title=Smart Sanctions against Russia: Human Rights, Magnitsky and the Ukrainian Crisis |journal=[[Demokratizatsiya (journal)|Demokratizatsiya]] |volume=24 |issue=2 |year=2016 |pages=257–277 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/619863/summary }}
* {{cite journal |first=Anton |last=Moiseienko |year=2015 |title=‘No Safe Haven’: Denying Entry to the Corrupt as a New Anti-Corruption Policy |journal=Journal of Money Laundering Control |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=400–410 |doi=10.1108/JMLC-01-2014-0004 }}
* {{cite journal |first=Jordan |last=Tama |year=2015 |title=Bipartisanship in a Polarized Age: The U.S. Congress and Foreign Policy Sanctions |work=School of International Service Research Paper |volume=No. 2015-2 |ssrn=2553401 }}

==External links==
*[http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr6156 H.R. 6156: Russia and Moldova Jackson–Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140916114524/http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2012/12/18/what-the-magnitsky-act-means/ What the Magnitsky Act Means] opinion piece. (If over 3 article free limit, use this instead.)

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