I don’t love a lot of year-end #content . But I do love talking to Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw every year,... more

Newsletters are not a new idea. Yet every few years the media business rediscovers them, anyway — either as a... more

You probably shouldn't know Renee DiResta's name: She's a researcher who studies online bad behavior, not a celebrity. But the... more

Lots of people start media companies using money from rich people. Jason Koebler and his colleagues did it themselves, using... more

Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Bari Weiss all used to work for big mainstream media companies. Now they’re on the... more

One take you may have heard after the election: Democrats need their own Joe Rogan. Taylor Lorenz disagrees. And Lorenz is... more

You want up-to-the minute election analysis? Sorry, not on this episode. But: If you want smart thoughts about politics and media... more

Jon Lovett and his cofounders at Crooked Media are a good story - former Obama aides who started their own... more

Emma Tucker became the Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief in 2023, and she’s been moving fast ever since. For starters, there are... more

What if you could watch shows and movies on a screen, for free, in exchange for watching some ads? In olden... more

What do Donald Trump and the video game industry have to do with each other? Nothing! Yet we’re combining them into... more

The last time I talked to Matt Yglesias, we were co-workers at Vox.com, and Joe Biden had just been elected... more

Mark Zuckerberg, along with most of the men running big tech companies, has spent many years and tons of money... more

YouTube turns 20 next year, which makes it positively ancient by internet standards. Yet the world’s biggest video site is... more

When David Remnick got to the New Yorker in 1998, it was very much a capital M Magazine — it... more

What happens when you mash up media, tech and business? You get a million things to talk about, and that’s... more

Peter Kafka, soon to be formerly of Vox, reviews the year in media with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw. What did we... more

After a wild series of events, Sam Altman is back as CEO of OpenAI… with more power than ever before.... more

The board of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, ousted CEO Sam Altman on Friday. Since then, the board has appointed... more

SiriusXM makes money by beaming music and talk radio - especially Howard Stern - to your car using satellites and... more

It’s a double shot of media business takes, with conversations about the Walt Disney Corporation and Fox News, with references... more

This week, an episode of the latest season of Land of the Giants: The Twitter Fantasy, hosted by our own... more

When Sam Reich bought CollegeHumor from Barry Diller’s IAC for pennies in January 2020, the comedy site was long past... more

The New York Times issued a rare editors’ note Monday: a mea culpa for a headline repeating unverified claims from... more

The war in Israel and Gaza is hugely complicated - dangerous, horrifying, and moving fast. Which means it’s a huge... more

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is an interconnected series of movies and TV shows that produced four of the top-grossing movies... more

Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) is the person who told you what “cheugy” means, what a “content house” is, and basically anything... more

When Robert Kyncl (@rkyncl) worked at YouTube, he made deals with companies like Warner Music Group. Now, he’s the CEO... more

The Hollywood writers’ strike is over and there’s hope the actors guild and studios will also settle their differences soon.... more

After a historic strike that went on for almost 150 days, the studios and the Writers Guild of America have... more

One of the most powerful people of the 21st century says he’s retiring. Rupert Murdoch, 92, will hand over control... more

Once the domain of the nerdiest of sports fans, these days fantasy football analysis is on primetime TV. Matthew Berry... more

Wait a minute. For a couple of years there - 2020 through 2022 - everyone acted like bitcoin and even... more

Taylor Swift is on one of the most successful concert tours of all time, but what's her secret? Switched on... more

The US and China are in a sort of cold war, and the tech industry is caught in the middle.... more

David Zaslav sent up the white smoke, marking the selection of a new CNN CEO. Mark Thompson comes from The... more

Born at BuzzFeed in 2014, The Try Guys make online videos where they try all sorts of things: earwax extractions,... more

A movie made for peanuts and distributed by a studio far outside the Hollywood system has done better box office... more

This week, a quick update on Disney’s deal to get into sports betting. Then, we’re bringing you an episode of... more

Black Mirror isn’t just a hit TV show: It’s a window into the not-too-distant future. Creator Charlie Brooker (@charltonbrooker) has... more

Joe Biden wants to stop big companies - especially big tech companies - from buying or merging with other companies.... more

This is a very good week to make a Recode Media episode: Hollywood is reeling from two different strikes. Disney... more

We’re one week into the Threads era. How long is that going to last? What does it mean for Twitter,... more

Former head of ESPN John Skipper has produced an ambitious new project. Now he has to figure out how to... more

Comedian Nimesh Patel was grinding it out in the stand-up mines for years with middling success. And then the stage... more

Mosheh Oinounou worked his way up through the TV news ranks and ended up running CBS Evening News. Now he’s... more

For some people that’s a dystopian vision. But for Cristóbal Valenzuela, it’s a mission statement: Valenzuela is the co-founder and... more

After just over a year of questionable leadership and on the heels of an unflattering Atlantic profile, Chris Licht is... more

It’s not just Ron DeSantis: All kinds of candidates are piling into the 2024 presidential race. New York Times national... more

Succession — the HBO drama about a Murdoch-ish family of media moguls — feels authentic thanks, in part, to consultant... more

Live from New York, it’s Upfronts week, where TV networks sell billions of dollars of advertising with glitzy presentations. It’s... more

Ken Jennings won 74 straight episodes of Jeopardy back in 2004. Somehow he’s turned that winning streak into a career,... more

AI is amazing… or terrifying, depending on who you ask. This is a technology that elicits strong, almost existential reactions.... more

It’s our first four-way pod, featuring BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti, Gawker founder Nick Denton, and Semafor founder (and former editor-in-chief... more

Silicon Valley needs a new thing and AI is that new thing: investors are supposed to pour 43 billion dollars... more

AI has captured the imagination of Silicon Valley seemingly overnight. And in all this excitement, it's hard to tell what's... more

Fox News, accused of repeatedly and knowingly spreading lies about Dominion Voting Systems, opted Tuesday to fork over $787 million... more

It’s a TikTok double-header! Vox’s Peter Kafka talks to ‘Chef Reactions,’ the semi-anonymous TikTok star whose hilarious culinary critiques skyrocketed him... more

Endeavor started out as a traditional Hollywood talent agency - CEO Ari Emanuel, famously, was the model for Jeremy Piven’s... more

We’ve had questions about Apple’s new VR headset — supposedly set to debut in June — for some time. Starting... more