Vox Pop (radio) Vox Pop (radio) Vox Pop was a popular radio program of interviews, quizzes and human interest features, sometimes titled Sidewalk Interviews (1936) and Voice of the People (the name is from the Latin "Vox Populi", meaning "Voice of the People"). It was heard from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. The program was launched in 1932 on KTRH in Houston when advertising salesmen Parks Johnson and Jerry Belcher went into the street with portable microphones to talk to people about the 1932 presidential race between Herbert Hoover and FDR. They continued after the election, and as they developed the
Vox Media editor-in-chief. In 2012, Vox Media launched a video gaming website, "Polygon", led by former "Joystiq" editor Christopher Grant. In November 2013, Vox Media acquired the Curbed network, which consisted of the real-estate blog network "Curbed", the food blog "Eater", and the fashion blog "Racked". In April 2014, the company launched a news website, Vox. 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 May 2015, Vox Media acquired "Recode", a technology industry news