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Vox is best known for “explainer” articles from a left-wing perspective that purports to give readers all they need to know about a topic. In 2014, Vox Media launched the Vox.com news and opinion site led by left-wing writer-activists Ezra Klein (late of the Washington Post and the American Prospect and a reported confidante of officials in the Obama administration 9) and Matt Yglesias (formerly a writer for the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s blog ThinkProgress 10, along with former Washington Post platform director Melissa Bell.

6 7 It also acquired the technology industry news site ReCode, founded by former Wall Street Journal technology writers Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, in 2015. 5 It would go on to add video game news site Polygon in 2012 and acquire the Curbed network of blogs – real estate blog Curbed, restaurant blog Eater and shopping site Racked – in 2013. In 2011, Vox Media launched The Verge, a technology news site. 3 Blezinski would leave Vox Media in 2015. SB Nation grew by starting or acquiring team-specific blogs in a variety of sports, and in 2008 hired former AOL executive and TMZ celebrity gossip site co-founder Jim Bankoff to run the company, replacing Blezinski. The predecessor to Vox Media, SB Nation, was founded in 2003 by left-wing activist and Howard Dean campaign strategist Jerome Armstrong, Democratic activist and “Daily Kos” founder Markos Moulitsas, and sports blogger Tyler Blezinski. Originally founded by left-wing political activists including Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas and led by an executive team with deep connections to the Democratic Party, Vox Media has expanded from its original roots in sports blogging into a network that covers news, politics, sports technology, science, culture, video games, real estate, food, and more from a generally left-of-center perspective.

Vox Media is an American digital media company that operates news and opinion websites and new media channels.