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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He penned a Wired cover story on New York Times heir A.G. Sulzberger.
Frank, best known for adapting “Get Shorty,” is also proud of his other Elmore Leonard script, “Out of Sight.”
Wired contributor Gabriel Snyder says it’s all about one big subscription now.
The science of popularity.
In his new book, “Hit Makers,” Atlantic Senior Editor Derek Thompson challenges common misconceptions like “content is king.”
“It’s been a very challenging year for the [media] industry,” to say the least.
Right-wing radio has “taught our audiences that there is no such thing as a fact-check.”
He revisits his 2004 profile of Donald Trump.
Former New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer cost Blodget millions of dollars, but “life is long,” the Business Insider CEO says.
Blodget says that, unlike some journalists, he took Trump seriously from Day One.
Now a Washington Post columnist, Sullivan talks about journalism in the Trump era.
“By giving away stuff for free for so long, we’ve created an ad economy that is bigger than it should be,” Deep Focus CEO Ian Schafer says.
Donald Trump’s TV-friendly spokesperson just makes everything more confusing, journalism professor Jay Rosen says.
The video producer’s 45 different shows have a total of about 28 million subscribers and six billion views.
Journalism professor Jay Rosen offers some suggestions for journalists under siege on Recode Media.
“Freakonomics is a kind of world view that tries to use data, empiricism, common sense and psychological insight to understand and explain the way the world actually works.”
Racism and xenophobia are only the symptoms of that anxiety, he says.
Digital ads suck, and they broke the internet, digital ad exec Joe Marchese says on Recode Media.
“People think, ‘Working for Jared Kushner, you have to vote for Trump.’ That’s not true at all.”
“Content isn’t king. Distribution is king,” he told Peter Kafka on the Recode Media podcast.
Your awareness of and opinions about Donald Trump don’t actually matter, Altucher says on Recode Media.
How to build a one-man media business: Lose your family, your house and your business — twice — and tell people about it.
The difference between LinkedIn and Facebook is the difference between your office and your home, Daniel Roth says.
“We allow them to lie, we allow them to say things that are false, we don’t question things as much as we should.”
“You need to be an outsider” to report on the Times, Sullivan says on the latest Recode Media.
The former New York Times public editor says the president-elect will lead to “a new kind of journalistic inquiry.”
Video game fans got a sneak peek at post-factual politics, Rooster Teeth co-founder Burnie Burns says.
Rooster Teeth co-founder Burnie Burns discusses “Red vs. Blue” and making fun of Apple on the latest Recode Media.
Kurson says he’s proud to have voted for Donald Trump, and to work for his son-in-law, Observer publisher Jared Kushner.
Yes, says one of the few people who might know: Observer Editor in Chief Ken Kurson.
Defy Media’s president has made a bunch of people internet famous. Now he wants to make them just plain famous.
“The world of recipes had not been reinvented beyond a list of text and an image forever.” BuzzFeed’s Tasty took on the challenge.
“You have to face the truth: The game changed.”
“What we have gone through in 2016, 2015, is so awful because of Donald Trump.”
CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone says the online-only show can boldly go where broadcast can’t.
Bustle CEO Bryan Goldberg looks back on how he pissed off the wrong people, on Recode Media.
The Spy magazine co-founder talks about branding Trump a “short-fingered vulgarian.”
“When I look at network news, it feels like a finished product and it feels like it was finished a long time ago.”
Before Jackson’s “nip slip,” Richman says on Recode Media, online video never worked.
Defy Media President Keith Richman sees $$$ signs in TV.