Voxxi

VOXXI
Private
Industry News Website
Founder Emilio Sánchez and Salomon Melgen
Area served
 Worldwide
Website www.voxxi.com

Voxxi, stylized as VOXXI, is a news website that was launched by President and CEO Emilio Sánchez (former Director of News at the EFE and author)[1] and investor Salomon Melgen in 2011.[2] The name of the site comes from the terms "Vox" and "XXI" (representing the 21st century) according to an El Mundo interview with Sánchez.[3] The news site was created in order to create content for Latino individuals whose dominant language was English,[2] in competition with services provided by English-based news services looking to expand their influence in the Latino marketplace.[4] By 2012 the news site was considered respectable enough for its CEO to be invited to become one of four judges for the Félix Varela Awards in Latino journalism.[1] At its 2011 launch at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., Voxxi partnered with the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts in the promotion of the advancement of Latino people in America.[5]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Emilio C. Sánchez". Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Portada Online (November 28, 2011). "Voxxi launches a new site catering to acculturated Latinos". New Generation Latino Consortium. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  3. ↑ Piero Menor (November 12, 2011). "VOXXI: the web in English for the Hispanic". El Mundo. Retrieved February 21, 2012.
  4. ↑ Leslie Berestein Rojas (February 10, 2012). "Why English-language content for Latinos is the future". Southern California Public Radio. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
  5. ↑ "EU portal seeks to conquer the Hispanic market Anglophone". February 12, 2012. Retrieved February 21, 2012.