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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Come for the Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka interviews. Stay for the patio.


Duca owes her fame (or, in some corners of the internet, infamy) to one column and one 10-minute interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News.


The podcast received a request to interview the CEO and have him explain his “weird business model,” and it delivered.


Wired has always been a magazine for the tech nerds among us, but Thompson says he wants to “make it nerdier.”


More than 1.5 million people love Lowe’s company. Big theater companies like AMC, not so much.


The startup is burning money now, but its CEO says he has a plan.


He’s not worried about Facebook’s News Feed changes.


One year into the job, Editor in Chief Nick Thompson has thought a lot about the power of print — and what has to change.


Wired’s wall goes up today: Four free clicks, then $20 a year.


In a rare two-part podcast, we get a double dose of Trump in the media.


“We reject this notion of digital first because we think that denigrates the core business. We think there’s a lot of money to be made in the print business.”


CNN’s Oliver Darcy and BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel say the people who carried Trump to victory have been disappointed by his conventional policies so far.


White House reporters are failing when they treat Trump like a normal president, Rosen argues on Recode Media.


Carey says advertising-dependent web publishers remind him of Buzz Lightyear in “Toy Story” — and that’s not a compliment.


In which we discuss the future of journalism as we know it.


Editor in Chief Dan Frommer joins Swisher and Recode Media host Peter Kafka for a discussion about tech and the media in 2017.


Swisher returns to Recode Media with Peter Kafka to talk about how journalism and tech are doing in the first year of Donald Trump’s presidency.


Contrary to what you might think, there will be Russian skaters competing.


They made a Western, despite the fact that Soderbergh cannot stand to be around horses.


The skaters-turned-commentators say their sport is missing the sort of stars it had in the ’90s.


“Folks really responded to [the show] the minute we went on YouTube.”
Executive producer Steven Soderbergh and writer/director Scott Frank talk about how the new western came together on Recode Media.


On the latest Recode Media, Soderbergh says that having online buzz doesn’t always translate to ticket sales.


His new book takes place in the Moon city of Artemis.


Uygur rages against the cable news establishment on the latest Recode Media.


Unlike “The Martian,” Weir’s new sci-fi novel, “Artemis,” was written to be printed by a traditional publisher, and a movie version is already in the works.


Her publication is on the forefront of the cascading sexual harassment scandals.


There are still more “powerful men” who have yet to be exposed, Masters said — right before she published a bombshell story about Disney and Pixar exec John Lasseter.


Her new book is “The Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug.”
Amusingly, Lacy says Facebook — whose COO Sheryl Sandberg wrote “Lean In” — rejected ads for the book because of the word “uterus.”


Does that mean Pando will go away? “I want to keep doing both as long as I can.”


His horror-comedy show, “Stan Against Evil,” is in its second season on IFC.


Gould’s horror-comedy show on IFC, “Stan Against Evil,” just started its second season.


His book “Sticky Fingers” is the story of the man behind Rolling Stone magazine.


“I appreciate all the power that resides in the truth we tell with our voice.”


“Sticky Fingers” author Joe Hagan says his new biography of Wenner ends on a “tragic” note for both the man and his groundbreaking magazine.


“There’s a Moore’s law of advertising, which is that ad formats double in frustration every 18 months.”


Diversity “has to be on your mind all the time and not in a lip service way, and then you have to fucking ... hire people who are diverse.”


“We start a story at the beginning and we get you through to the end.”


Starting on Nov. 8, 2016, Bee says, her Twitter mentions became an “unbelievable torrent of hatred.”