Should-Read: Well? It's been two more years!
Ezra Klein (2015): "I have sat down a couple of times to write up what's worked and what's failed at Vox... http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/08/a-very-brief-sokratic-dialogue-on-website-redesign.html
...I keep abandoning the project, because I keep realizing I am not yet sure what's failed and what's simply in the learning process still...
I will say of these five items, the one I worry about most for Vox —and for everything — is the stock. I think we are better at using stock than most, and we are particularly good at making stock useful to our writers. But I don't think our stock is sufficiently available to our readers...