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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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Podcast pioneer Bill Simmons on how to stay relevant

He built a business on talk. Next up: Figuring out video.

By Peter Kafka

How HBO could have become — or bought — Netflix

An alternative media history, brought to us by a new oral history of HBO.

By Peter Kafka

Apple has an antitrust problem. Here’s one way to solve it.

By Peter Kafka

Substack wants to pay you to write about local news

By Peter Kafka

Why the best referees for Twitter and Facebook may be the people who work there

By Peter Kafka

BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on why he bought HuffPost and why the New York Times can’t be “the paper of record”

By Peter Kafka

Why the coronavirus canceled the NBA

By Peter Kafka

Here’s an idea to save local news: Stop trying to make a profit from local news

By Peter Kafka

How Donald Trump helped move BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith to the New York Times

By Peter Kafka

Bloomberg’s Matt Levine explains Wall Street, WeWork, and how to leave Goldman Sachs for a much lower-paying job

By Peter Kafka

No one expected The Athletic could get people to pay for sports news. Now it has 600,000 subscribers.

By Peter Kafka

Bestselling author Shea Serrano’s writing reads like a conversation. That’s not an accident.

By Peter Kafka

The techlash is real, and Silicon Valley should be worried, says BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith

By Peter Kafka

The story behind Hot Ones, the interview show where celebrities choke down crazy-hot chicken wings

By Peter Kafka

Why Vox Media says it bought New York Media

By Peter Kafka

How Rodney Dangerfield and “Caddyshack” gave us Donald Trump

By Peter Kafka

How Travis Kalanick’s foes tried using the New York Times to force him out of Uber

By Peter Kafka

What happened to the formerly fearsome right-wing media troll?

By Peter Kafka

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki: The Code Conference interview (transcript)

By Eric Johnson

Why Amazon is going to be one of the winners of the streaming video wars

By Eric Johnson

Jimmy Pitaro moved ESPN away from politics, controversy, and anything else that isn’t sports

By Peter Kafka

Meet the man with an impossible job: cleaning up YouTube

By Peter Kafka

Hulu CEO Randy Freer explains why Hulu never promoted its ad-free version

By Eric Johnson

Disney+ will not be a “Netflix killer” because at this point, nothing can kill Netflix

By Eric Johnson

Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen’s advice to startup founders and investors: Don’t lie to each other

By Eric Johnson

David Haskell has one of the hardest jobs in media: replacing a beloved magazine editor

By Eric Johnson

Why is LinkedIn producing original journalism? LinkedIn editor-at-large Jessi Hempel explains.

By Eric Johnson

AMC Networks boss Josh Sapan wants the people who make TV to look at the data — but not too much

By Eric Johnson

Everyone in TV news goes for outrage. That makes it “ripe for disruption,” says former CNN reporter Jessica Yellin

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: Brat co-founder Rob Fishman on Recode Media

By Eric Johnson

The future of the podcast business isn’t advertising or subscriptions. It’s both.

By Eric Johnson

CNN’s Brian Stelter says it’s “vital” for regular people to hold newsrooms accountable

By Eric Johnson

In HBO’s Theranos documentary “The Inventor,” director Alex Gibney says Elizabeth Holmes was fooled by her own lies

By Eric Johnson

Where to find Kara Swisher, Peter Kafka and your favorite Recode podcasts at SXSW

By Kat Borgerding

The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer says Congress should investigate if Trump ordered the DOJ’s AT&T-Time Warner lawsuit

By Eric Johnson

Media startups trying to drive people to their websites are doing it wrong, says Overtime CEO Dan Porter

By Eric Johnson

Meet J2’s Vivek Shah, the CEO quietly presiding over a $4 billion media business

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on Recode Media

By Eric Johnson

Why venture capital doesn’t work for everyone

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: Fortune CEO Alan Murray on Recode Media

By Eric Johnson

Full Q&A: Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber explain why they sold Gimlet to Spotify

By Eric Johnson

BuzzFeed layoffs show that “winter is here for digital news,” says former NYT editor Jill Abramson

By Eric Johnson

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