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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New York Magazine’s Rebecca Traister has a few guesses: “I’ve thought about it for 10 years.”
Traister, who profiled Clinton twice for the magazine, talks about how those stories got made on the latest Recode Media.
In addition to being a venture capitalist, Lerer is the chairman of BuzzFeed and co-founded the Huffington Post.
A new documentary called “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press” links the Thiel-funded Hulk Hogan lawsuit to the present day.
It seems fitting that a Grateful Dead documentary would be four hours long.
As Netflix grows and grows, Disney is poised to be the “biggest loser,” BTIG’s Rich Greenfield says.
From the Harvard Crimson to the Wall Street Journal to The Information.
From “Spinal Tap” to “Better Call Saul” to Broadway.
Lerer, who previously helped start MTV and is a board member at Viacom, shares what he has learned on the latest Recode Media.
McKean also talks about “This Is Spinal Tap” and his current play, “The Little Foxes,” on the latest Recode Media.
“When I started doing comedy for a few years I realized, well, first of all, I’m not a good comedian, I’m really bad, so this is gonna take longer than I thought.”
Meet director Amir Bar-Lev, who made “Long Strange Trip” and then sold it to Amazon.
She is also one half of the podcast duo behind “Matt and Doree’s Eggcellent Adventure.”
His latest book covers the founder of the Silk Road: The “Dread Pirate Roberts,” a.k.a. convicted felon Ross Ulbricht.
“If it’s valuable to an audience, there’s a price that people should be willing to pay,” Lessin says on the latest Recode Media.
On the latest Recode Media, Bell reveals the only person at CNN who’s the same on- and off-camera.
He also talks about comics, movies, VR — and squeaky shoes.
Bilton, now a writer for Vanity Fair and the author of “American Kingpin,” says the Times “wasn’t challenging anymore.”
Bilton used digital forensics to recreate huge chunks of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s life.
“Get smart fast” with the newsletter guru.
Shafrir says books about people striving to work in print magazines feel “dated.”
“I will come to this with a 56-year-old head and lots of ideas about the ways that other things are done.”
A movie adaptation never made sense, but a TV version of Gaiman’s “big, sprawling” book debuts on Starz April 30.
“The cornerstone of our business is our talent relationships and our creator network.”
“When they’re fighting a fight, when they’re in the war, then they need to explain themselves more than ever.”
The groups trying to curry President Trump’s favor go way beyond Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon.
“I happen to have the brain chemistry, I believe, that is exactly designed for gambling.”
Studio71 CEO Reza Izad explains the differences between YouTube and traditional TV on Recode Media.
“One of the things that still excites me about doing music is building communities.”
Calacanis, the author of a forthcoming book called “Angel,” only wants to invest in people who have built something.
Inside CEO Jason Calacanis says email doesn’t “pervert” the news business the way Google and social media did.
“One of the great strengths of HuffPost is that it’s still a destination.”
“I’m still the same person and I have the same principles. I hope I’m a little wiser.”
Finn says on Recode Media that the band may spend a year or more “off” before doing three-night engagements in major American cities.
“Right is right and wrong is wrong,” and Beck says he won’t back down.
“If you try and cover everything, you own nothing. My mission [at Mashable] is very much to decide what we own and how we own it.”
Huffington Post Editor in Chief Lydia Polgreen says it’s important to get President Trump’s surrogates “on the record.”
Lydia Polgreen, who took over for Arianna Huffington late last year, wants to help Trump supporters and opponents see eye to eye.
A group that includes the guy who wrote “Logan,” Scott Frank.
Coen, who spent two years at Gawker.com and five at Jezebel, is focusing Mashable on the stories it can tell best.