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Channels with Peter Kafka
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What happens when media, entertainment, and technology collide? Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians and podcasters to get their take. Produced by Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
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- Disney vs. Itself vs. the Right
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- Judd Apatow on The Bubble, TikTok and The Slap
- The Oscars: Hollywood’s smallest biggest night?
- Dan Le Batard on life after ESPN; Russia sanctions upend big-time soccer
- Big Tech takes a side, finally + Zappos' tragic founder
- Covering the war in Ukraine, online and on the ground
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- Chuck Klosterman relives the 1990s & Sarah Palin loses her NYT libel suit
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- WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar’s almost-exit interview
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- How to cover the Facebook leaks + SNL’s Heidi Gardner
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- Streamers shrink Hollywood, again + What’s a “Hate Raid”?
- How Peter Thiel went from Silicon Valley to The White House with Max Chafkin
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- WWE’s Nick Khan on pivoting his streaming strategy and getting back in the ring
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- Director Tom McCarthy on Stillwater, finishing a movie in a pandemic and playing one of the Wire’s best villains
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- Kevin Delaney turns the future of work into a media business; plus a Sun Valley update from David Gura.
- Men In Blazers’ Roger Bennett loves soccer and America
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- One of Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors is now a media company, too
- Jake and Amir on being Web famous, fed up with Hollywood, and podcast bosses
- How to make it in the creator economy with Rob Walker
- Why is Amazon buying MGM?
- Jim Miller on HBO’s new home; Alan Yang on a very different season of “Master of None”
- Why did AT&T just bail on WarnerMedia? And what happens next?
- Antonio García Martínez's controversial exit from Apple
- Live music is back! Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino can't wait
- The Jeff Bezos Empire w/ Brad Stone & Jason Del Rey
- Apple vs Epic with John Gruber; Truth, Doubt and History with Jill Lepore
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- Did the pandemic kill the Oscars?
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- WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on a wild first year on the job
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- The rise and maybe fall of YouTube star David Dobrik; inside Facebook with the Markup’s Julia Angwin
- How Christina “Tinx” Najjar became a TikTok star overnight
- How did - and didn’t - the pandemic transform media
- Fubo TV is a Reddit meme stock. CEO David Gandler has bigger ambitions.
- Have we hit peak streaming? + NYT’s Kevin Roose on his new book “Futureproof”
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- Pandora founder Tim Westergen on the future of streaming
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- How To Make An Influencer In America with Nick Bilton
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- ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish on Paramount+, Pluto TV
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- Election 2020: What happens next?
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- ESPN’s Pablo Torre on balancing sports and politics
- Congress comes for big tech; Axios thrives in the pandemic
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- Politico editor Carrie Budoff Brown on the challenge of covering 2020
- QAnon Explained with NBC's Ben Collins
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- Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman is building a media brand one newsletter at a time
- Baratunde Thurston wants to teach us how to be a good citizen
- NYT’s James Poniewozik on the virtual conventions; CNN’s Brian Stelter on Trump + Fox
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- NYT CEO Mark Thompson on subscriptions, platforms and internal Slack fights; IAC’s Joey Levin bets on betting.
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- Hank Green on everything YouTube, Tik Tok, podcasting, and Montana
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- Twitter, Trump, Facebook and George Floyd with NYT’s Charlie Warzel
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- BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti reboots his business plan
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- Eat up! Food talk with The Infatuation’s Chris Stang and the New Yorker’s Helen Rosner
- Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc on the internet, TV and her famous founder
- The anatomy of a hit song, with Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding
- Roger Lynch’s plan to save Condé Nast
- DAZN's John Skipper and the future of streaming sports
- The men who want to remake Sports Illustrated: Maven’s James Heckman and Ross Levinsohn
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- John Stankey’s plan for HBO, HBO Max and WarnerMedia
- Meet the man behind Disney+: Live from Code Media with Kevin Mayer
- Scott Z. Burns on making movies with Amazon, Netflix & Steven Soderbergh
- Did Disney+ and Apple TV+ live up to the hype?
- What's next for The New York Times after The Daily?
- Matt Levine left Goldman to become a journalist. Great move!
- It's not HBO... It's HBO Max. Plus Steve Swartz, CEO of Hearst on turning a magazine publisher into a diversified media company
- How the Wu-Tang Clan raised Sophia Chang
- Introducing Reset: Can AI Teach You to Write Better?
- How The Athletic CEO Alex Mather convinced people to pay for sports news on the internet
- How Shea Serrano used the internet to become a best-selling author
- BuzzFeed News' Ben Smith on covering Trump and making money
- Complex CEO Rich Antoniello on running a youth culture media empire
- Vox Media + NY Media CEOs Jim Bankoff and Pamela Wasserstein go behind the deal
- Behind the scenes of the Brett Kavanaugh investigation with NYT's Kate Kelly
- Craiglist's Craig Newmark is using his power and money to save journalism
- How Survivor and The Sopranos created Trump, with New York Times critic James Poniewozik
- Apple TV+ is coming. Will you pay for it?
- The epic battle for Uber, with Mike Isaac from the New York Times
- The decline of the right wing troll with CNN’s Oliver Darcy
- Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley wants to know where you are
- The Sportswriter: The Ringer's Bryan Curtis on the sports-media-politics mash-up
- Taylor Lorenz on TikTok, Twitter … and Tumblr
- John Harris, co-founder of Politico
- Splice's Steve Martocci wants to remake the music business + All things Amazon with Recode's Jason Del Rey
- Chuck Klosterman on Trump, Twitter and cancel culture - and his new book
- Media mogul watch at Sun Valley with Dylan Byers + Erin Lee Carr on making true crime documentaries
- The Texas Tribune’s secret sauce, with Emily Ramshaw
- How Roger Ailes built Fox News - and how Gabriel Sherman turned Ailes’ story into a TV show
- Vimeo’s Anjali Sud shifted the company’s strategy — and became its CEO + The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson on the limits of the ‘attention economy’
- New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger at the Code Conference
- YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at the Code Conference
- Matthew Ball on Amazon vs Apple vs Netflix vs Disney, and how he built a digital media career by writing for free
- ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro on how he’s reshaping the network
- YouTube’s Neal Mohan is trying to police the world’s largest video site + Game of Thrones is gone. What’s next?
- Eugene Wei explains why we’re all ‘status monkeys’ on social media
- Nick Hornby on writing for TV, 10 minutes at a time
- Game of Thrones is down to its last dragon + Hulu CEO Randy Freer
- Digital media pioneer Jason Hirschhorn on Netflix vs. Everyone Else
- Kickstarter’s Perry Chen on 10 years and billions of dollars of crowdfunding
- New York Magazine editor David Haskell on taking over after an industry legend
- Why Jessi Hempel left a superstar writing career for LinkedIn
- Disney enters the streaming wars + AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan
- "Savage News" author Jessica Yellin on the dark side (and the silly side) of TV news
- Nilay Patel and Peter Kafka talk about Apple's media event
- How Brat co-founder Rob Fishman is making TV for the internet's young women
- The business of podcasting with Jacob Weisberg, Bethany McLean and Marshall Williams
- Brian Stelter, host of CNN's "Reliable Sources"
- Alex Gibney, director of HBO's Theranos documentary "The Inventor"
- "Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban on investing, sports gambling and how he helped Elon Musk
- The New Yorker's Jane Mayer on Fox News and the Trump White House
- Overtime CEO Dan Porter on making sports media for Gen Z
- J2 Global CEO Vivek Shah on being a serial acquirer of media businesses
- AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on sports gambling and buying Time Warner
- Indie.vc founder Bryce Roberts: Why venture capital doesn't work for everyone
- Gimlet co-founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, plus Fortune CEO Alan Murray
- Jill Abramson on BuzzFeed layoffs, "Merchants of Truth" and the local news crisis
- NYU's Jay Rosen says 2020's political journalism will be even worse than 2016's
- Axios business editor Dan Primack on newsletters, IPOs and the economy in 2019
- Harvard's Susan Crawford on the importance of fiber internet
- Neil Vogel on turning around an aging internet property
- Filmmaker Hao Wu and Loretta Chao on streaming culture in China
- Lydia Polgreen talks to Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian
- The big business of being a social media star
- Axios reporter Jonathan Swan talks to Maggie Haberman about reporting on the Trump administration
- Former GE and NBC executive Beth Comstock
- How Twitch's CEO thinks about tech addiction
- Netflix will get ads, predicts The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green
- Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?
- John Skipper: You’ve heard of ESPN. Now give DAZN a try.
- 'The Front Runner' director Jason Reitman
- Snap VP of Content Nick Bell
- NFL Network analyst Maurice Jones-Drew
- 'The Fairway' author Matt Taibbi
- Rival CEO Nathan Hubbard
- Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones
- 'The Big Disruption' author Jessica Powell
- The Markup co-founder Julia Angwin
- 'Big Game' author Mark Leibovich
- Business of Fashion editor in chief Imran Amed
- 'The Land of Steady Habits' director Nicole Holofcener
- Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
- Roku CEO Anthony Wood
- Substack CEO Chris Best
- ThinkProgress founder Judd Legum
- Redef CEO Jason Hirschhorn
- Digiday editor in chief Brian Morrissey
- Discord CEO Jason Citron
- Product Hunt CEO Ryan Hoover
- 'Eighth Grade' director Bo Burnham
- 'Billions' producer Brian Koppelman
- Manoush Zomorodi: Can blockchain save journalism?
- Eugene Wei: The invisible ceilings to Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter’s growth
- ‘The King of Content’ author Keach Hagey explains the Redstone dynasty
- Spotify CEO Daniel Ek (Live at Code 2018)
- Pod Save America co-host Dan Pfeiffer
- Gimlet founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
- AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson (Live at Code 2018)
- Momofuku chef David Chang (Live at Code 2018)
- Jessica Pressler talks 'lady grifters' + Ken Auletta on the 'frenemies' of the ad business
- James Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox (Live at Code 2018)
- Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Schroepfer (Live at Code 2018)
- Roman Mars, host of 99 Percent Invisible: Don't put podcasts behind a paywall
- Ezra Klein explains Vox's new Netflix show 'Explained'
- YouTube's Lyor Cohen on YouTube Music, Childish Gambino and Kanye West
- What people get wrong about Robin Williams’ life — and his death
- The Outline CEO Josh Topolsky: Online ads are stuck in the '90s
- 'Chasing Hillary' author Amy Chozick looks back on a decade of writing about Hillary Clinton
- This is how the New York Times reports Pulitzer Prize-winning stories
- Our hoax-filled internet, now available as a book (Rex Sorgatz, author, 'The Encyclopedia of Misinformation')
- Outside Magazine editor Axie Navas: Yep, we're getting more political.
- How Marques 'MKBHD' Brownlee got six million subscribers on YouTube
- Financial Times CEO John Ridding: How to make people pay for media
- Why every Hollywood movie is a superhero movie
- What it's like to be the only woman in a TV writers’ room
- Houseparty CEO Ben Rubin on livestreaming and SXSW fame
- 'Get Out' producer Jason Blum (Live at SXSW)
- How to make a hit TV show for Amazon
- SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor (Live at Code Media 2018)
- Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (Live at Code Media 2018)
- How Lauren Duca became an internet star overnight
- Hollywood Reporter part owner Janice Min (Live at Code Media 2018)
- BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti (Live at Code Media 2018)
- Facebook's Adam Mosseri and Campbell Brown (Live at Code Media 2018)
- MoviePass sounds too good to be true. Is it?
- Paywalls make content better (Nick Thompson, editor in chief, Wired)
- How we pivoted from Facebook to Instagram (Dave Finocchio, CEO, Bleacher Report)
- NYU’s Jay Rosen, CNN’s Oliver Darcy and BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel talk Trump and the media
- Digital media companies are headed for a crash (David Carey, president, Hearst Magazines)
- Will Trump still dominate the news in 2018?
- Kara Swisher reviews the media, 2017 edition
- Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir want to make figure skating great again
- How Netflix makes a hit (Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank, co-creators, ‘Godless’)
- I'm more famous than Anderson Cooper (Cenk Uygur, CEO, The Young Turks)
- Andy Weir on 'The Martian,' 'Artemis' and when we'll live on the moon
- Hollywood’s sexual harassment story is far from over (Kim Masters, editor-at-large, Hollywood Reporter)
- Don't 'lean in,' fight back (Sarah Lacy, author, 'The Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug')
- How to make a ‘comedy-horror’ TV show (Dana Gould, creator, ‘Stan Against Evil’)
- How Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner built and lost a rock and roll empire (Joe Hagan, author, "Sticky Fingers")
- NYT's Michael Barbaro explains why you love 'The Daily'
- Samantha Bee on Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump (Live)
- How blocking ads can save the media industry (Tony Haile, CEO, Scroll)
- Jimmy Kimmel on the intersection of comedy and politics
- How to start a company when you’re 25 years old (Brit Morin, CEO, Brit + Co)
- Sports have always been political (Jason Gay, columnist, Wall Street Journal)
- Why podcasts are better than radio (Jad Abumrad, co-host, Radiolab)
- When is the internet going to change TV ads? (Dave Morgan, CEO, Simulmedia)
- Why Ken Burns won't leave PBS for HBO
- How to pay for serious journalism (Clara Jeffery, editor in chief, Mother Jones)
- How to compete against Google and Facebook: Go around them! (Tim Armstrong, CEO, Oath)
- A guided tour of the pro-Trump media (Oliver Darcy, CNN; Charlie Warzel, BuzzFeed)
- Chuck Klosterman talks about Nazis, Taylor Swift and the future of journalism
- Patreon will help fans pay artists more than $140 million this year (Jack Conte, CEO, Patreon)
- Everyone still wants to be on TV (Tonia O'Connor, chief revenue officer, Univision)
- How food became cool (Larry Fitzgibbon, CEO, Tastemade; Helen Rosner, editor at large, Eater)
- How to make a bestseller that lasts (Ryan Holiday, author, 'Perennial Seller')
- Shari Redstone, Vice Chair, Viacom (Code Conference 2017)
- Podcasting is growing up (Nick Quah, founder, Hot Pod)
- Why Hillary Clinton won't admit that she made mistakes (Rebecca Traister, writer at large, New York Magazine)
- What Peter Thiel’s war against Gawker can tell us about Trump (Brian Knappenberger, director, "Nobody Speak")
- Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, The New York Times (Code Conference 2017)
- Meet the Wall Street analyst the big media companies love to hate (Rich Greenfield, analyst, BTIG)
- Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix (Code Conference 2017)
- BuzzFeed chairman and HuffPost co-founder Ken Lerer on the future of media
- 'Better Call Saul' actor Michael McKean doesn't care how you watch
- Why this four-hour Grateful Dead documentary took 14 years to make (Amir Bar-Lev, director, 'Long Strange Trip')
- Information doesn't have to be free (Jessica Lessin, CEO, The Information)
- W. Kamau Bell talks about Trump, racism and podcasting
- Tracking a drug boss across the web (Nick Bilton, author, 'American Kingpin')
- The New York 'Startup' scene gets a novel (Doree Shafrir, author)
- How Neil Gaiman's ‘American Gods’ finally made it to TV
- Inside the Trump White House (Mike Allen, co-founder, Axios)
- Why TV is different from YouTube (Reza Izad, CEO, Studio71)
- Uber investor Jason Calacanis doesn't want to hear your idea
- How to be a rock musician in 2017 (Craig Finn, 'We All Want the Same Things')
- Glenn Beck doesn't care if he alienates Trump voters (Live at SXSW)
- The Huffington Post wants to reach Trump voters (Lydia Polgreen, editor in chief, The Huffington Post)
- 'Why is this on Mashable?' asks Executive Editor Jessica Coen
- Making a superhero movie for adults (Scott Frank, screenwriter, 'Logan')
- The New York Times wants to become like Netflix (Gabriel Snyder, journalist)
- Here’s the secret to making things popular (Derek Thompson, author, ‘Hit Makers’)
- Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget says Trump is pushing 'anti-American' policies
- The future of advertising is 'fewer, better ads' (Ian Schafer, CEO, Deep Focus)
- How the press can save itself in the age of Trump (Jay Rosen, professor, NYU)
- Fox's digital ad guy wants you to use an ad blocker (Joe Marchese, president of advanced advertising, Fox Networks Group)
- How to make $11 million by failing (James Altucher, founder, Choose Yourself Media)
- Why is there no fake news on LinkedIn? (Daniel Roth, executive editor, LinkedIn)
- Kara Swisher: Journalists must be 'tougher on everybody'
- Trump will blow up political journalism (Margaret Sullivan, columnist, the Washington Post)
- Making viral videos before YouTube (Burnie Burns, co-founder, Rooster Teeth)
- Did racism motivate Trump's voters? (Stephen Dubner, co-author, 'Freakonomics')
- Trump-related 'terror and hysteria' isn't justified (Ken Kurson, editor-in-chief, Observer)
- Musicians who fight Spotify are 'so f-cking dumb' (Bob Lefsetz, author, Lefsetz Letter)
- The 'Star Trek' reboot could have naked aliens (Jim Lanzone, CEO, CBS Interactive)
- You've outraged the internet? Here's how to apologize. (Bryan Goldberg, CEO, Bustle)
- How tech PR works (Brooke Hammerling, founder, Brew Media)
- Smosh and ScreenJunkies boss Keith Richman: We're looking into TV
- BuzzFeed's video boss Ze Frank on going viral at scale
- Ex-Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau: I'm afraid of a 'smarter Trump'
- Donald Trump is still a 'short-fingered vulgarian' (Kurt Andersen, co-founder, Spy)
- Behind the scenes of 'Vice News Tonight' (Josh Tyrangiel, executive vice president, Vice)
- Keith Olbermann: Covering Donald Trump is like covering a tsunami every day
- "Call Your Girlfriend" co-host Aminatou Sow on how to make a hit podcast
- Skip Bayless: Why I left ESPN for Fox Sports 1
- CNN's Brian Stelter: No, CNN is not biased for Trump
- Gigaom founder Om Malik on the virtues of a heart attack
- The New York Times has to think like a tech startup (Sam Dolnick and Clifford Levy, editors, New York Times)
- Skift CEO Rafat Ali: Small media companies are beautiful
- Gawker wasn't always mean (Elizabeth Spiers, founding editor, Gawker.com)
- James Andrew Miller examines Hollywood's top agents in 'Powerhouse'
- We're not startup bros anymore (Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman, co-founders, Genius)
- So, you’ve been shamed by Twitter (Virginia Heffernan, author, "Magic and Loss")
- Gary Vaynerchuk can't wait for the startup armageddon
- Donald Trump is bad for democracy (Jacob Weisberg, chairman, Slate Group)
- Documentarian Alex Gibney says the Stuxnet virus was a "new kind of weapon"
- Daring Fireball's John Gruber: "I'm a writer first and a businessman second"
- Steve Jobs "literally caught me with my pants down" (Brian Lam, founder, The Wirecutter)
- Malcolm Gladwell wants to make you cry
- The Ringer editor Sean Fennessey on ending Grantland, starting again
- "Warcraft" director Duncan Jones: Don't watch this movie on an iPhone
- You have to fight robots to see Beyoncé (Michael Rapino, CEO, Live Nation)
- How email saved Jason Hirschhorn's life
- Samantha Bee says hiring more women = better comedy
- Why Larry Wilmore used the N-word at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
- The NYT's Jenna Wortham just wants to "write about people who look like me”
- "Veep" Producer Frank Rich: Trump Can Win
- Snapchat Should Start Paying Its Users (Hunter Walk, Investor, Homebrew)
- From Fake Steve Jobs to HBO's "Silicon Valley" (Dan Lyons, Author, "Disrupted")
- Millennials Aren't an Alien Species (Philippe von Borries, co-CEO, Refinery29)
- Can Donald Trump Be Stopped? (Nate Silver, Founder, FiveThirtyEight)
- Digital Brands Are a "Sh*t-Ton of Work" (Troy Young, President, Hearst Magazines Digital)
- Peter Gould, Co-Creator, "Better Call Saul"
- Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, theSkimm Co-Founders
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