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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Early Amazon employee Eugene Wei breaks down his theory of “invisible asymptotes” on the latest Recode Media podcast.
His new book, “Yes, We (Still) Can,” is about his years as White House communications director and what’s next for the Democratic Party.
Here’s a transcript of today’s new episode of the Recode Media podcast.
He and Kara discuss the media landscape in the wake of the AT&T/Time Warner decision.
A podcast about how podcasts get made.
It’s a two-fer!
“What I really loved was the idea of the intentionality of the way people designed everything they designed.”
Dan Pfeiffer, the former White House communications director under President Obama, is the author of a new book, “Yes, We (Still) Can.”
He explains Vox’s new Netflix show, “Explained.”
When you run a startup, “it feels like everything is about to break,” co-founder Lieber says.
As a record exec, Cohen used to be a bit anti-YouTube. Now he’s soaking in it.
Fifteen years later, Auletta helped Ronan Farrow finally make the stories of Weinstein’s victims public.
The Radiotopia founder says the podcast industry isn’t nearly ready to start selling subscriptions.
Itzkoff’s new book is “Robin: The Definitive Biography of Robin Williams.”
The Vox.com editor-at-large says the Netflix series is tackling questions that are too big for YouTube.
In his new book “Robin,” Itzkoff explores the complicated life of the manic comedian, whose stardom spanned four decades.
“I love when stories actually have a design element that elevates the storytelling and takes me deeper into the story.”
“It’s like people built the Model T and were like, ‘That’s as good as a car is ever going to get!’”
Her new book is “Chasing Hillary.”
“By the time it became ‘the girls on the bus,’ the role of the bus in the media ecosystem had been vastly diminished.”
Her work over the last year uncovering harassment earned her a Pulitzer.
Reporter Emily Steel explains how she and Michael Schmidt broke the Bill O’Reilly harassment story that changed everything.
His new book is “The Encyclopedia of Misinformation.”
Sorgatz says, “It’s as close as you can get to an interactive book.”
The magazine has gotten more political as well as more inclusive.
He started making tech review videos when he was 15. Now 24, he’s a YouTube powerhouse.
The magazine has been critical of Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and Donald Trump’s views on immigration.
Brownlee’s YouTube channel MKBHD has amassed nearly six million subscribers — and big tech companies are paying attention.
“I think that any publisher that ties their fortunes to social media or search platforms is making a major strategic mistake.”
Techies pooh-poohed online subscriptions a decade ago. My, how things have changed.
His new book is “The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies.”
On Recode Media, “The Big Picture” author Ben Fritz explains how Disney keeps on winning.
“No one wants a witch hunt, but we do want a fair and judicious review of witches.”
You may remember him as the founder of here-and-gone livestream app Meerkat.
Nell Scovell has written for TV shows like “The Simpsons” and co-wrote “Lean In” — she isn’t buying your excuses for workplace harassment.
Founder and CEO Ben Rubin explains the livestreaming company’s extreme makeover on Recode Media.
“My theory — very un-Hollywood — is I’d rather have a small piece of what I anticipate to be a much bigger pie than a big piece of what I anticipate to be a small pie.”
He also worked on the FX series “Justified,” and — for about a minute — “Full House.”
Her Teen Vogue column about Trump and gaslighting catapulted her career.
Veteran screenwriter Graham Yost has made big movies like “Speed” and TV shows like “Justified.” Now he has a streaming success with “Sneaky Pete.”