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The Vox Box archive for March 1, 2009

SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2009

Gettin' Reele with Michael Steele

Coupled with the refusal to dismiss the partisan stubbornness of their waning party, the senseless, Pallinesque rise of Bobby Jindal from obscurity to clarion-calling Republican spokesperson, and the tendency towards mass-criticizing Obama with the exact same verbiage on fifty different channels from fifty different people,…

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Billboard's Hot 100 really is hot...celebrating 50 years.

That's 'Hot'... 15 

It's a fifty-year old that's still relatively cool: Billboard is celebratng 50 years of keeping tabs on the music world's 'popular crowd'. First published in Billboard's August 8, 1958 issue, the Hot 100 was the "first list to measure popularity by incorporating both radio play…

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In 2006, then-editor Steve Smith of The Spokesman-Review had the idea of starting a publication for an often forgotten audience: teenagers. The Vox Box was a continuation of the Vox, an all-student staffed newspaper published by The Spokesman-Review. High school student journalists who staffed the Vox made all content decisions as they learn about the trade of journalism. This blog's mission was to give students an opportunity to publish their voices. The Vox Box and the Vox wrapped up in June 2009, but you can follow former staffers' new blog at http://voxxiez.blogspot.com.