Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level

"Perhaps more important for its long-term survival, Vox’s formats attract attention directly, so the site does not have to turn to gimmicky features like quizzes, teasing headlines or lists to generate traffic through Facebook or Twitter."

Vox's front page: "How politics make us stupid", "11 books series to satisfy your 'Game of Thrones' craving", "Amtrak's insane train boarding rule"

Oops.

Referencing my other comment, I can't help feeling that this is duct tape. Nothing compares to Reddit and Twitter for news. What Vox seems to be trying to create is current events in historical form so that readers can keep up to date. What Reddit and Twitter have to offer is debate and perspective so people can react in real time. I wish there was an elegant combination of the two. The closest thing that I've seen has been the comprehensive timeline of the Malaysian Airlines incident [1].

[1] Part 16 Here - http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/21890i/comprehensive_t...

On a purely technical level, the Vox software is really quite astounding, it allows relatively non-technical people to create a quite polished site with relatively little technical knowledge. I've been amazed at what the people at http://www.podiumcafe.com have been able to do with it, with relatively little technical knowledge

I enjoy the blog of Yelvington, http://yelvington.com/ a long term journalist-turned-technology-implementer. Posts are now occasional, but I'd look him up were I interested in diving into understanding a lot of anecdote in the sphere of traditional (print) newsroom meeting technology transition challenges.

It is exciting to see "technology-first" journalism developing solely for the reason that I believe they will displace the incumbent "old-school" firms. (We have already seen a similar trend in "cloud-first" vs. "old-school" IT, think Salesforce vs. Oracle).