
DIGIDAY: Vox Media, CNN, Ellen Digital Network and more are this year’s Digiday Publishing Awards winners
Vox Creative is this year’s winner for Best Content Studio. Established in 2014, Vox Creative is the custom content branch of Vox Media, responsible for creating custom content on all eight Vox Media properties. It leverages the analytics and ad units present in Vox Media’s sites to create content that that fits in with the surrounding editorial coverage. It has done work for advertisers such as Jeep, XBox, Mailchimp, Walmart and many more.

CNBC: Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff on media and sports betting
Vox Media chairman and CEO Jim Bankoff joins “Squawk Alley” to discuss SB Nation’s new partnership with Draft Kings.

ADWEEK: SB Nation and DraftKings Are Teaming Up on a Website Covering Fantasy and Sports Betting
The new editorial site rolls out today, just in time for the 2019 NFL season.

MediaPost: ‘Eater,’ Black Tomato Partner To Launch Trip Packages
Vox Media’s Eater brand is partnering with boutique travel agency Black Tomato to create travel packages centered around food.

THR: Welcome to Peak Food TV: Inside Hollywood’s Growing Hunger for Culinary Shows
“Hulu announced an aggressive slate from Vox Media Studios at its May upfront, including a vehicle for Chang and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen and projects tied to Vox property Eater, with the intent to launch full food vertical ‘Hulu Kitchen’ in 2020.”

CNBC: Wedbush’s Dan Ives is more positive on Apple’s global iPhone demand
Dan Ives, Wedbush Securities, Nilay Patel, The Verge, and CNBC’s Josh Lipton discuss their predictions for Apple’s earnings after the bell.
CNBC: Amazon wants to be the tech product of our homes: Recode’s Del Rey
Jason Del Rey, senior correspondent for Recode, and CNBC’s Diana Olick join “The Exchange” team to discuss Amazon, the new Realogy partnership and the company’s growth.

Here & Now: The Consumer Psychology Behind Amazon Prime
Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson talks with Jason Del Rey (@DelRey), host of the new season of Recode’s podcast “Land Of Giants: The Rise of Amazon.”

NEW YORK TIMES: In Praise of Vox: Covering the substance of 2020.
‘For any given policy proposal, I’ve come to expect that Vox is going to have one of the smartest, clearest analyses out there.’ writes New York Times Opinion Columnist David Loenhardt on Vox’s 2020 coverage.

NPR FRESH AIR: ‘For Facebook Content Moderators, Traumatizing Material Is A Job Hazard’ with Casey Newton
The Verge’s Casey Newton joins Terry Gross to discuss his investigation into working conditions for the people who determine what material can be posted to Facebook.

CNBC: ‘The Verge’s editor-in-chief on Jony Ive’s departure: ‘The change if good.’’
The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel joins “Squawk Alley” to discuss Jony Ive’s departure from Apple and a report from the Wall Street Journal that Tim Cook called “absurd.”

Vox Media Studios dives into premium unscripted
REALSCREEN: U.S. digital media company Vox Media introduced a rebranded division specializing in television, podcasts and film last April, bringing together previously separate divisions along with the newly acquired Epic Magazine under the new Vox Media Studios roof.

DIGIDAY PODCAST: Recode’s Peter Kafka: ‘Netflix is winning’
Recode Senior Correspondent and Host of Recode Media Podcast Peter Kafka joins the Digiday podcast to discuss streaming services and the future of television.

Business of Content: Inside Vox Media’s podcast strategy with Marty Moe, President of Vox Media Studios
Marty Moe, head of Vox Media Studios, sits down with Simon Owens to talk about how Vox Media is monetizing its podcasts, what he thinks about Spotify’s entry into podcasting, and why he thinks he can grow Vox Media’s podcast revenue from eight to nine figures.

CNBC: Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff on big tech, social issues and more
Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff joins “Squawk on the Street” for an exclusive interview to discuss Recode’s annual Code Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona.

CNBC: Recode’s Kara Swisher on big tech companies and their competition with China
Recode co-founder Kara Swisher and Casey Newton of The Verge join “Squawk Alley” at Recode’s annual Code Conference to discuss some of the major themes being addressed by major tech companies.

CNBC: Kara Swisher: Code Con has a lot of big tech saying ‘We’re so sorry’
Recode co-founder Kara Swisher joins “Squawk Alley” to give her impressions of the first day of Code Con, where a lot of big tech companies are asking for regulation while assuring that bigger companies are better.

ADWEEK: Why Vox Media Chose to Build, Not Buy, a Programmatic Stack
CRO Ryan Pauley on how the company’s ad-tech strategy prioritizes its audience

AXIOS: Vox Media’s multi-million dollar podcast deal
Vox Media is expanding its partnership with Stitcher, one of the biggest end-to-end podcast companies, to produce a new technology news podcast from Recode as part of a multi-million dollar deal.

DIGIDAY: Vox Media’s Melissa Bell: The industry has given Facebook too much emphasis in the conversation
Melissa Bell, publisher at Vox Media, and the founder of Vox.com, is cheerily optimistic about the industry. For her, Vox Media has outgrown the label of a digital media company, and is growing into a modern media company — complete with diverse revenue streams, opportunistic acquisitions and a partnership with Facebook that may actually make it some money.

WASHINGTON LIFE: Innovators & Disruptors: 2019 Tech 25
Vox Media CEO Jim Bankoff and Recode Co-Founder and Editor-at-Large Kara Swisher named to Washington Life’s list of local entrepreneurs leading the change on national and global conversations.

NIEMAN LAB: Vox.com tries a membership program, with a twist: It’s focused on video and entirely on YouTube
“I’m sure everybody in the industry would [agree] that YouTube can be a messy, nasty place. The membership is just this delightful two-way conversation, with people who are really there to support Vox.”

PBS: NO PASSPORT REQUIRED with Marcus Samuelsson Returns for Second Season on PBS
Premiering This Fall, New Season Explores the Food and Culture of America’s Thriving Immigrant Communities in Boston, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Seattle

NIEMAN LAB: With tech’s reality a little too dystopian, The Verge is turning to science fiction for inspiration
And turning away a bit from Facebook video: “Our video lives on YouTube. We’re going to program for the YouTube audience.”