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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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What happens when media, entertainment, and technology collide?

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

Why venture capital doesn’t work for everyone

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

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

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

NYU’s Jay Rosen says 2020’s political journalism will be even worse than 2016’s

Full Q&A: Axios business editor Dan Primack on newsletters, IPOs, and the economy in 2019

America desperately needs fiber internet, and the tech giants won’t save us

Full Q&A: Dotdash CEO Neil Vogel on Recode Media

The big business of being a social media star

Axios’ Jonathan Swan explains what the press gets wrong about the Trump administration

Recode has published 240 podcasts in 2018. Here are the 10 you really shouldn’t miss.

How to make a big company more innovative

How Twitch CEO Emmett Shear thinks about tech addiction

Netflix will get ads, predicts The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green

Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?

John Skipper, ESPN’s former president, is back ... at a rival sports media company.

‘The Front Runner’ director Jason Reitman says technology has taught today’s young people how to be great filmmakers

Taking a page from YouTube, Snap VP Nick Bell wants to find the next generation of media stars

Unlike some athletes, former NFL star Maurice Jones-Drew doesn’t want to be a venture capitalist

The media is responsible for President Trump and it still hasn’t learned from 2016, says Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi

Former Ticketmaster CEO Nathan Hubbard explains why live venues are leaving money on the table

Vanity Fair helped create ‘the celebrity industrial complex.’ VF Editor Radhika Jones wants to investigate it.

Google’s former PR boss Jessica Powell wrote a satirical novel about tech and published it all on Medium

It may be ‘data journalism,’ but Julia Angwin’s new site the Markup is nothing like FiveThirtyEight

Colin Kaepernick’s Nike ads are just one piece of a bigger ‘reckoning’ in the fashion industry

‘The Land of Steady Habits’ director Nicole Holofcener explains what’s different about making a movie for Netflix

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talked to NYU’s Jay Rosen for an hour, on the record. Read and listen to the full interview here.

Why Roku isn’t afraid of competition from Apple, Google and Amazon

Social media makes us angry and unfocused. Is email the answer?

Republican fury about ‘bias’ on the internet is just a distraction, ThinkProgress founder Judd Legum says

How Netflix outsmarted everyone else in TV

Full Q&A: Redef CEO Jason Hirschhorn returns to Recode Media with Peter Kafka

Why building a business that’s dependent on Facebook is ‘crazy’

Gaming chat app Discord will start selling games to its 150 million users

Product Hunt CEO Ryan Hoover says redesigning your app is probably a mistake

‘Eighth Grade’ director Bo Burnham is happy that a lot of people ‘have no idea who I am’

‘Billions’ co-creator Brian Koppelman says everyone knows how to tell a great story — but few get the chance

Podcaster Manoush Zomorodi explains blockchain and how it might fix the media