Vox populi Vox populi American television personality Steve Allen as the host of "The Tonight Show" further developed the "man on the street" interviews and audience-participation comedy breaks that have become commonplace on late-night TV. Usually the interviewees are shown in public places, and supposed to be giving spontaneous opinions in a chance encounter – unrehearsed persons, not selected in any way. As such, journalists almost always refer to them as the abbreviated "vox pop". In U.S. broadcast journalism it is often referred to as a man on the street interview or MOTS. The results of such an interview are unpredictable at
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