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 called "This Is My Next" was created to allow them to continue writing articles and producing podcasts. Topolsky described the site as being an "evolved version of what we [had] been doing [at AOL]." As of February 2014, the site had 7.9 million unique visitors according to ComScore. "Vox" was launched in April 2014; it is a news website that employs explanatory journalism. The site's editor-in-chief is Lauren Williams. The video game website "Polygon" launched in 2012 as Vox Media's third property, and publishes news, culture, reviews, and videos. The site's founding staff included the editors-in-chief of the gaming sites