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]

As of August 21, 2015, VOXXI is not currently available on the internet.

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References

  1. 1 2 "Emilio C. Sánchez". Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  2. 1 2 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.
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