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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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Why ‘Star Wars’ is like a social network, and other insights from Eugene Wei on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Can blockchain save journalism? Manoush Zomorodi doesn’t know, either, but she’s going to find out.

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These are the ‘invisible’ challenges that make it harder for Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter to grow

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Full transcript: Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

‘The King of Content’ author Keach Hagey talks with Peter Kafka about Sumner Redstone’s crazy life

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: Recode’s Peter Kafka on Too Embarrassed to Ask

By Recode Staff

Full transcript: Gimlet founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Full transcript: Jessica Pressler talks ‘lady grifters’ + Ken Auletta on the ‘frenemies’ of the ad business on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Full transcript: Roman Mars, host of the 99% Invisible podcast, on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Pod Save America’s Dan Pfeiffer has some advice for Democrats: Learn how to use Facebook, ASAP!

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: Vox Editor at Large Ezra Klein on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Gimlet’s Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber started with a podcast about the trials of entrepreneurship. They’re still learning how hard that life can be.

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: YouTube Music head Lyor Cohen on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

How Ken Auletta tried (and failed) to break the Harvey Weinstein story in 2002

By Eric Johnson

Don’t put podcasts behind a paywall, says 99 Percent Invisible host Roman Mars

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: NYT reporter and ‘Robin’ author Dave Itzkoff on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Why Vox’s Netflix show ‘Explained’ is different from Vox’s YouTube videos, explained (by Ezra Klein)

By Eric Johnson

The NYT’s Dave Itzkoff explains what people get wrong about Robin Williams’s life — and his death

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: The Outline CEO and Editor in Chief Josh Topolsky on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

You don’t need a paywall if you have cool ads, The Outline CEO Josh Topolsky says

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: New York Times journalist Amy Chozick on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Amy Chozick’s book is about Hillary Clinton — and all the things reporters don’t write in their stories about Hillary Clinton

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: New York Times reporter Emily Steel on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

This is how the New York Times reports Pulitzer Prize-winning stories

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: Writer Rex Sorgatz on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Rex Sorgatz’s new book is a romp through lies, hoaxes and conspiracy theories — perfect for the internet in 2018

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: Outside Magazine Executive Editor Axie Navas on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Full transcript: YouTube tech reviewer Marques Brownlee, a.k.a. MKBHD, on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Outside Magazine Executive Editor Axie Navas: Yep, we’re getting more political

By Eric Johnson

YouTube tech reviewer Marques Brownlee is the most famous person you wouldn’t recognize in public

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: Financial Times CEO John Ridding on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Financial Times CEO John Ridding explains how to make people pay for media

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: Author and Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Fritz on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Why every Hollywood movie is a superhero movie

By Eric Johnson

Full transcript: Nell Scovell talks David Letterman, Sheryl Sandberg and ‘The Simpsons’ on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Full transcript: Houseparty’s Ben Rubin on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

Here’s what it’s like to be the only woman in a TV writers’ room

By Eric Johnson

Meerkat was the darling of SXSW in 2015. Here’s why it pivoted three months later and became Houseparty.

By Eric Johnson

‘Get Out’ producer Jason Blum talks about Netflix, low-budget movies and the Oscars

By Recode Staff

Full transcript: ‘Sneaky Pete’ showrunner Graham Yost on Recode Media

By Recode Staff

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