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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Is AI going to kill us? Or take our jobs? Or is the whole thing overhyped? Depends on who you ask.
Is AI going to kill us? Or take our jobs? Or is the whole thing overhyped? Depends on who you ask.
Gawker’s Nick Denton, BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti, and Ben Smith on digital media’s boom and bust
The science fiction pioneer on making a template for Mark Zuckerberg, not making movies, and a worrisome climate change scenario.
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A chat with the paper’s newest high-profile hire.
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And the business might do the same thing for other topics.
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“I think there is a real possibility that these companies get broken up.”
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My boss Jim Bankoff and New York Media’s Pam Wasserstein talked to me about their deal. I still have questions.
An interview with New York Times TV critic James Poniewozik, whose new book Audience of One traces the way pop culture helped create Trump.
An interview with Times reporter and author Mike Isaac, on covering a titanic battle and being used as leverage in that battle.
Milo Yiannopoulos and his right-wing peers seemed state of the art in 2016. CNN’s Oliver Darcy talks about what changed since then.
After the most hectic week of YouTube’s most hectic year, Wojcicki joined Recode’s Peter Kafka onstage at Code to apologize and explain.
A small number of companies will win the streaming “battle royale,” says former Amazon Studios strategist Matthew Ball. Amazon is “guaranteed” to be one of them, he says.
A Q&A with the ESPN boss, who took over Disney’s powerful network a year ago.
A Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer.
The more expensive Hulu No Commercials plan was announced in 2015, and almost four years later, the company is finally ready to start advertising that it exists.
Redef CEO Jason Hirschhorn watches a lot of TV and he says Netflix has sucked him into watching less of everything else.
“It will always come back to bite you.”
Haskell took up the reins of New York Magazine this year after its 15-year editor Adam Moss stepped away.
Hempel joined the site’s editorial team this year after 17 years at magazines like Businessweek, Fortune, and Wired.
There’s no algorithm for creativity yet, Sapan says on the latest Recode Media.
Yellin is trying to use her Instagram feed to offer people video news “without a panic attack.”
Fishman is betting that young women who used to watch the CW or MTV will demand those sorts of shows from YouTube, too.
Jacob Weisberg and Bethany McLean from Pushkin Industries and Marshall Williams from Ad Results Advertising discuss the booming audio biz on the latest Recode Media.
On the latest Recode Media, Stelter says that if viewers think someone is being covered unfairly in the 2020 campaign, they should write an email.
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Swisher and Kafka will be live podcasting from Vox Media’s Deep End and the SXSW official stage.
Mayer recently published a bombshell investigation into the links between Fox News and the Trump White House. When she heard about the alleged incident, she says, “my jaw dropped.”
Don’t listen to the conventional wisdom about relying on Instagram or Snapchat, Porter says — just go where your audience is.
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