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In January 2018, Vox Media agreed to recognize a labor union, the Vox Media Union, being formed by its editorial staff with the Writers Guild of America, East. On September 24, 2019, Vox Media agreed to acquire the parent company of New York magazine. On April 15, 2019, Vox Media acquired magazine Epic, which would become part of a new division called Vox Media Studios, which had also absorbed Vox Entertainment and the Vox Media Podcast Network. On May 30, 2017, Vox Media announced that it had entered into an agreement to provide technology and advertising sales for Bill Simmons' sports website The Ringer, as part of a revenue sharing agreement. In May 2015, Vox Media acquired Recode, a technology industry news website that was founded by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, the former editors of The Wall Street Journal 's All Things Digital. Led by former Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein, Melissa Bell and Matthew Yglesias, Vox was positioned as a general interest news service with a focus on providing additional context to recurring subjects within its articles. In April 2014, the company launched a news website, Vox. In November 2013, Vox Media acquired Curbed Network, which consisted of the real-estate blog network Curbed, the food blog Eater, and the fashion blog Racked. In 2012, Vox Media launched a video gaming website, Polygon, led by former Joystiq editor Christopher Grant. In November, the renamed Vox Media officially launched The Verge, with Topolsky as editor-in-chief. Bankoff felt that a technology-oriented website would complement SB Nation due to their overlapping demographics.

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They had originally left AOL following a series of conflicts between Topolsky and Michael Arrington, author of TechCrunch (which AOL had recently acquired), and the leak of an internal training document that outlined a content strategy for AOL's blogs that prioritized profitability. In 2011, Bankoff hired a number of former writers from AOL's technology blog Engadget, including former editor-in-chief Joshua Topolsky, to build a new technology-oriented website.

Continued growth and expansion into other content areas The 208 percent increase in unique visitors over November 2009 made SB Nation the fastest-growing sports website the company tracked at the time. As of February 2009, the SB Nation network contained 185 blogs, and in November 2010, ComScore estimated that the site had attracted 5.8 million unique visitors. He showed interest in SB Nation 's goal of building a network of niche-oriented sports websites. In 2008, SB Nation hired former AOL executive Jim Bankoff as CEO to assist in its growth. The popularity of the site led to other sports blogs being incorporated. The site was a spin-off and expansion of Tyler Bleszinski's Oakland Athletics blog Athletics Nation, which sought to provide coverage of the team from a fan's perspective.

Vox Media was founded in 2005 as SportsBlogs Inc., the parent company of the sports blog network SB Nation, by political strategist Jerome Armstrong, freelance writer Tyler Bleszinski, and Markos Moulitsas (creator of Daily Kos). History Founding and expansion in sports media

1.2 Continued growth and expansion into other content areas.

1.1 Founding and expansion in sports media.

The company's lines of business include the publishing platform Chorus, Concert, Vox Creative, Vox Entertainment, and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Vox Media's brands are built on Concert, a publisher-led market place for advertising, and Chorus, its proprietary content management system. Vox Media owns six editorial brands- The Verge, Vox, SB Nation, Eater, Polygon, and Curbed-as well as, formerly, Racked and Recode. In September 2018, Comscore ranked Vox Media as the 30th-most popular media company among users from the United States. In June 2010, the network featured over 300 sites with over 400 paid writers. The company operates additional offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, and London. by Jerome Armstrong, Tyler Bleszinski, and Markos Moulitsas, and was rebranded as Vox Media in 2011. The company was founded in July 2005 as SportsBlogs Inc. is an American digital media company based in Washington, D.C.

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