Recode Media with Peter Kafka
What happens when media, entertainment, and technology collide? Host Peter Kafka, one of the media industry’s most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters to get their take. Recode Media is produced by Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network. You can listen to it, and more Vox podcasts, here.
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On the latest Recode Media podcast, Indie.vc founder Bryce Roberts says it’s only for the 1 percent of the 1 percent.
Murray recently sold the Fortune Media Group to Chatchaval Jiaravanon, a Thai billionaire you’ve probably never heard of.
Blumberg and Lieber spoke with Recode’s Peter Kafka on the latest episode of Recode Media.
Abramson’s new book Merchants of Truth profiles the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vice, and BuzzFeed.
“This should be a time when people in the political press are searching for alternatives to the horse race,” Rosen says. But they aren’t.
“I want to tell a reader something they don’t know yet ... I want to make them feel smart when they get to work and feel like they’re ready to do their jobs.”
Harvard’s Susan Crawford explains why we shouldn’t expect Google to fix slow internet speeds in the US.
Vogel explains how he turned the ’90s internet juggernaut About.com into a modern web publisher.
Platforms like YouTube and Netflix are at war, and Shots Studios CEO John Shahidi is happy to sell content to all of them.
People in Trump’s West Wing are not always “running around with their hair on fire,” Swan says in this conversation with the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman.
That’s a lotta podcast!
Former GE and NBCUniversal executive Beth Comstock talks about her new book “Imagine It Forward” with Recode’s Kara Swisher.
To Shear, watching something for two hours is different from repeatedly opening an app over two hours.
Reed Hastings wants to compete with YouTube overseas, and the only way it can do that is by offering a free-with-ads option, Green says on Recode Media.
The site’s new Editor in Chief Noah Shachtman wants to take “full, big, considered swings” at the targets who deserve it.
Skipper’s new goal is to make watching sports online a big business, starting in the U.S. with boxing.
Everything from selfies to YouTube has armed Generation Z with an “inherent” appreciation of film technique, Reitman says.
Celebrities are only interesting some of the time, Bell said on the latest episode of Recode Media.
MJD tells Recode’s Kurt Wagner that the low success rate in tech investing scares him: “I grew up with no money, so it’s like, I got money, I’m gonna try to keep it as long as I can.”
Taibbi says the difference between the campaign and today is “we replaced a million hours of Trump with a million hours of ‘Trump is bad.’”
Hubbard says they need his startup Rival, which will publicly launch next year.
Everything is changing, which means there’s never been a better time for a “new establishment,” Jones says on Recode Media.
“The Big Disruption” scrutinizes Silicon Valley from the perspective of someone who has spent most of her career in the industry: “You can love something but also be critical of it,” Powell says.
Rather than analyzing data that others have collected, Angwin says the new nonprofit will be collecting data sets about technology that don’t exist today.
Business of Fashion Editor in Chief Imran Amed explains how the industry is becoming more explicitly political on the latest Recode Media.
A normal studio wanted Holofcener to cast “six A-list stars” if they were going to put it out in theaters. Netflix said, “You can cast whoever you want.”
Dorsey says “we have definitely been gamed” by bad-faith actors and doesn’t expect that Twitter will ever build a “perfect antidote.”
They’re too busy selling phones and shoes to do TV right, CEO Anthony Wood says.
Subtack CEO Chris Best makes the case for electronic mail on the latest episode of Recode Media.
The more we talk about “shadow banning,” the less we talk about voter suppression.
On Recode Media, Redef CEO Jason Hirschhorn calls it “the greatest land grab in the history of media ever.”
Hirschhorn discusses media moguls, the virtues of taking time off and how Netflix outsmarted the TV guys.
Digiday Editor in Chief Brian Morrissey says publishers were naïve if they didn’t think Facebook would eventually put its own interests above theirs.
For now, at least, it wants to be a “neighborhood game store” — so, no big games like Fortnite.
That goes for everyone, not just Snapchat.
The worst kind of fame, he says on Recode Media, is the kind that makes everyone ask, “Where do I know you from?”
Koppelman calls the hit Showtime series his “dream show” and an “absurd privilege.”
Even though her new media company will be funded partially through Civil Coin currency, it’s really more about bringing good journalism to the world.
Wei worked at Amazon and Oculus, among others, but now he’s a “thinkfluencer.”
Zomorodi left WNYC for the startup life because she was tired of waiting for other people to fix the media.