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Last month, Vox launched a Facebook group for enrollees to talk about their shared experience. The day after the election, Vox health reporter Sarah Kliff sent out a tweet with a request: She wanted to talk to people who relied on Obamacare coverage and were worried about what the law’s repeal could mean for them. The 250-plus responses she got came from all over the country. It quickly became clear that not only is there a large group of Americans who are unsure of what will happen next with their health coverage, but they wanted to talk about it. @sarahkliff @chrislhayes a week ago I panicked about a higher premium, now panicked that I won't be insurable bc of a pre-existing condition— Elayne C. Burke (@chatelainedc) November 9, 2016 @USNavyMomPA @sarahkliff Ditto. My parents are ...

How Vox is changing to cover Trump and a new era of policy and politics. Programming note from Vox general manager Andrew Golis: When Melissa, Matt, and Ezra started Vox, they wrote on a regular basis about the challenges, experiments, and successes they had building the team and brand. But then they got busy building the team and brand! In 2017, we’re bringing the “How we make Vox” writing back. Sometimes, I’ll offer updates on experiments and projects. Other times, like this, we’ll share internal news and thinking about what we’re doing. Today, a 2017 memo from Vox editor in chief Ezra Klein about some exciting leadership changes and how we’re attacking the challenge of covering the policy and politics of the dawning Trump era. If you have questions, concerns, or compliments to send our ...

What should the next three years of Vox look like? Programming note from Melissa Bell: When we first started Vox, I loved to write about building this company. But as our team has grown, and our work did too, those public notes fell by the wayside. It’s been almost a year since we last added to “How we make Vox.” I’d like to change that, starting now. I want us to re-engage in a conversation with you, our readers, about how we’re doing, and what we should be doing next. You helped us build this brand into something bigger and better than I ever imagined. And I’m so excited for the next stage of growth. To start, here’s a note we sent to the Vox.com team this morning. It’s celebratory, because we’re excited about the work we’ve done, and the work we’ll get to do with Andrew Golis, but we’l...

I'm going to make some predictions about the future of the media in this piece, and they come with the disclaimer that predictions always come with: They could be entirely wrong. The media is moving fast, and what looks like an unstoppable trend today might seem like a hilarious detour a year from now. (Remember, for instance, when the iPad launched, and apps were going to save journalism? Lol.) But my guess is that within three years, it will be normal for news organizations of even modest scale to be publishing to some combination of their own websites, a separate mobile app, Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News, Snapchat, RSS, Facebook Video, Twitter Video, YouTube, Flipboard, and at least one or two major players yet to be named. The biggest publishers will be publishing to all of the...

Vox's mission is to explain the news. We do that in a lot of ways: through our card stacks on ISIS and student debt and vaccines; our maps posts on the Middle East and immigration and food; our videos on health care and Jurassic World and space exploration. In the year or so since we launched, we've also come to realize the power of personal narrative in advancing our mission. A retired Secret Service agent can illuminate the agency's problems in ways a news story might miss. A woman living with anxiety disorder can explain her experience in a way even the best statistics will hide. A jailed Ferguson protester and a former police officer can reveal things about the state of police-community relations that reporters will never see. In light of this, we've decided to devote a section of Vox....