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The Upshot vs. Vox vs. FiveThirtyEight: A hands-on review of explanatory journalism

on April 22, 2014

With the launch of The Upshot from the New York Times, there are now three major sites going after the “explanatory journalism” market. Each has its own unique flavor, but is the market for that kind of content really large enough to support that many sites?

Here comes The Upshot, the new explanatory journalism effort from the New York Times

on April 21, 2014

The New York Times is launching The Upshot, a new site that its editor says will offer a combination of data journalism and explanatory reporting — and also try to go head-to-head with new high-profile projects like Ezra Klein’s Vox and Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight

Marty Baron is partly right about the Washington Post and Ezra Klein — but mostly wrong

on April 9, 2014

Washington Post editor-in-chief Marty Baron defended his decision not to finance Ezra Klein’s vision for a news Wikipedia, saying it didn’t make financial sense. He was probably right — but the Post should have done it anyway

Three good things about Ezra Klein’s new site Vox, plus three challenges that it faces

on April 7, 2014

Vox, the new explanatory journalism site from former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, launched on Sunday and it does many things well — including a design based on information “cards” that looks good on a mobile device. But it faces some significant challenges

Before the “explanatory journalism” craze started to catch fire, there was Syria Deeply

on March 24, 2014

Lara Setrakian, a former foreign correspondent for ABC News, started Syria Deeply because she believed that a news site focused on a specific topic would fill a need in the journalism marketplace — and she is planning to expand that idea with other sites like Arctic Deeply

If Ezra Klein’s Vox can be the Wirecutter of news, it’ll be a must-read for me

on March 10, 2014

I am embarrassingly uninformed on certain current events. I’m hoping Vox can help fix that.

Why the rise of sites devoted to explanatory journalism is a trend worth celebrating

on February 28, 2014

An increasing number of new-media startups — and even new projects by existing media outlets — are aimed at bringing context, background and analysis to the news instead of just trying to be the first to report something, and that’s a very beneficial development

Vox Media doesn’t just have to reinvent the news — it has to reinvent advertising too

on January 27, 2014

Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff, who just hired former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein and a team to reinvent online news with something called Project X, says the new venture will be funded primarily by advertising — but is that going to be enough to pay the bills?

Ezra Klein reveals his new venture — a partnership with Vox Media aimed at bringing context to the news

on January 26, 2014

Ezra Klein, who left his Wonkblog empire at the Washington Post for a new project, announced on Sunday night that he is joining Vox Media to build a news site that will focus on adding context to important stories

Ezra Klein bolts the Post for his own venture — did the paper just lose another Politico?

on January 21, 2014

After his offer of a co-ownership deal was rebuffed, Wonkblog founder Ezra Klein is leaving the Washington Post for his own venture — a departure that reminds more than one media watcher of how the Post lost what would eventually become Politico.

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