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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Tasty is more popular than Beyoncé on Facebook, BuzzFeed video boss Ze Frank points out.
Jon Favreau wasn’t a fan of “Trumped-up trickle-down.”
Still tuned in to the political world, Favreau is afraid of a “smarter Trump” coming along.
On Donald Trump: “If you had a tsunami every day, how good would your coverage of the tsunami every day be?”
“You can’t pick your descendants,” Kurt Andersen says.
Spy magazine co-founder Kurt Andersen says the key to understanding Trump may be pro wrestling.
“Venture capital is basically welfare for white people, so they’ll build anything.”
“It’s 2016. The onus is on us to figure it out,” says Vice News boss Josh Tyrangiel.
“I think I’m a good-hearted psycho.”
Now hosting an online series called “The Closer” for GQ, the former ESPN and MSNBC anchor compares Trump to a natural disaster.
“I was immensely frustrated by the end of 2015 that other candidates weren’t learning more from Trump.”
“We did not set out to make a popular podcast. I think if that had been the case, we would have failed.”
“For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don’t put one down I can’t put the next one down.”
“I’m actually proud of the fact that I don’t think about it.”
TV debating is a lot harder than it looks, the co-host of “Skip and Shannon: Undisputed” said on the latest episode of Recode Media.
“We have to be more willing to try new things, and if they fail, that’s fine.”
CNN’s Brian Stelter calls the clip a game-changing piece of “eyewitness video.”
Stelter explains why the cable channel gave Trump so much time — and what happened when it hired his former campaign manager.
“My argument is, there’s another way to build a company. It doesn’t have to all be about the worship of bigness.”
“There have been so many incarnations of Gawker, and if you read it when I was writing it, it wasn’t really negative.”
“It forced me to prioritize what was important.”
For editors Sam Dolnick and Clifford Levy, that means trying, sometimes failing and bringing once-separated departments together.
Ali’s first company, PaidContent, died after it joined the Guardian. Now he’s staying small.
“They absolutely transformed the whole mechanism of Hollywood.”
Former New York Observer editor Elizabeth Spiers tells all on Recode Media with Peter Kafka.
Plus: What it’s like working for Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
“We’re trying to do more serious and significant stuff and act in accordance with that.”
The oral historian has tackled ESPN and “Saturday Night Live.” Up next: The Creative Artists Agency.
“I made the split between me and my avatar, not out of being evolved, but out of fear of pain.”
Goodbye, Wayfarers. Hello, potential advertisers!
Gary Vee discusses the startup armageddon and how he unlocked Facebook’s secrets.
“America looks like a very different place, even if Trump loses but gets 45 percent of the vote.”
Learn from the experience of “Magic and Loss” author Virginia Heffernan.
Gibney’s newest film, “Zero Days,” tackles the Stuxnet virus that sabotaged Iranian nuclear facilities.
“One of my goals is to be right, all the time. Meaning, correct. And that’s impossible.”
“There’s nobody building a startup business anymore. Everybody’s creating a startup financial machine.”
The chairman of the Slate Group says even if Trump loses in November, his legacy will be felt for years.
“We understand nuclear capability. We have to at least start talking about the capability of these weapons.”
Since 2002, Gruber has owned a chunk of the conversation about Apple — and he does it all solo.
The journalist-turned-founder of The Wirecutter says business should chase both money and quality.