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Peter Kafka, soon to be formerly of Vox, reviews the year in media with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw. What did we... more
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This week, an episode of the latest season of Land of the Giants: The Twitter Fantasy, hosted by our own... more
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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
Jesse Thorn has been podcasting for so long it was called radio. Over time he turned his career into a... more
First: A Silicon Valley Bank check-in with Dan Primack of Axios. Why, exactly, did so many tech companies (and, um,... more
Mark Zuckerberg wants to build the metaverse. Neal Stephenson created the meta verse three decades ago. The author’s 1992 science fiction... more
De La Soul was legendary for their trail-blazing approach to hip-hop. But in recent years the trio become notable for... more
Veteran business journalist James B. Stewart specializes in getting behind the scenes to tell the stories of rich, powerful, and... more
It used to be that a human would have to write a BuzzFeed quiz about “Which Fictional Artificial Intelligence Are... more
Tech and media companies (including the one that brings you this podcast) are laying off workers left and right. Meanwhile,... more
This week, we bring you an episode of The Cut and The Verge’s latest season of Land of the Giants:... more
Investor Li Jin helped popularize the idea of the Creator Economy — the theory that many people who make stuff... more
The critically-lauded video game The Last of Us is now a critically-lauded HBO series. It's about a global pandemic that... more
A new study in the journal Nature Communications finds "no evidence of a meaningful relationship" between Russian disinformation and voting... more
For the first time in 3 decades, NFL’s Sunday Ticket - a subscription service that lets viewers watch many but... more
Before we face the reality of 2023, we discuss the state of virtual reality — specifically, the still-unannounced VR/AR headset... more
Recode’s Peter Kafka answers listener questions about Twitter, niche content streaming, print media microtransactions, regional sports networks and more. Peter’s... more
The Earth has just about completed its latest orbit around the sun, which means it’s time to take a look... more
The FTC wants to (candy) crush Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Inc., the makers of games like Call of Duty,... more
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Selling tickets for live events can be… tricky, as Ticketmaster has proven yet again. But Eventbrite CEO Julia Hartz runs... more
HBO’s 50-year-old history tells you a lot about culture, business, and TV’s past and future. This perhaps explains why we’ve... more
Qatar is hosting the 2022 World Cup, casting a pall over one of the globe’s most-watched sporting events. Men With... more
Ryan Broderick is very online so you don’t have to be. His internet culture Substack ‘Garbage Day’ is a mix... more
This is not an emergency podcast, but, you know, maybe it will be? As questions swirl around what exactly Elon... more
Mass layoffs and cutbacks at companies like Meta and Twitter point to a slowdown (and chaos) in tech. Bloomberg tech... more
Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman joins us from the U.S. Capitol building just in time for the 2022 midterm elections.... more
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Netflix added 2.4 million subscribers! Ads are coming! Wall Street’s excited again! But is Netflix back for real? Recode’s Peter... more
Since 2005, Randall Munroe has used his webcomic XKCD to comment on the world around him and express his love... more
He’s back! Elon Musk, who agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion last spring and then tried to back out... more
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YouTube wants a piece of that sweet TikTok action, so it’s getting out the checkbook. The most popular creators on... more
Chef José Andrés may very well be The Best Person. His nonprofit, World Central Kitchen, activates local restaurants to provide... more
Despite YouTube’s massive influence, it's been chronically underreported on. But finally, Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen wrote the comprehensive, soup-to-nuts history of... more
Like other big deal TV creators, Robert and Michelle King are thriving in the streaming era. The duo behind the... more
Kyle Chayka writes about tech and internet culture for the New Yorker; he’s also the co-founder of Dirt, a newsletter... more
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Democrats have a complicated relationship with social media - sometimes they think it’s a huge help; other times, not so... more
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20 years ago the New Yorker’s Ken Auletta wrote a seminal profile of famed and feared producer Harvey Weinstein -... more
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Three interviews! One pod: First entrepreneur and investor Zach Weinberg tells Recode’s Peter Kafka why he’s accidentally become Twitter Famous... more
Today, CNBC’s Alex Sherman joins Recode’s Peter Kafka to ponder several media mysteries: Why did Netflix lose 2 million subscribers? Why was... more
The Bill Simmons Podcast is, by its own description, "the most downloaded sports podcast of all time." This week, it... more
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Software engineer Molly White has emerged as one of Web3’s most high-profile skeptics. Her website “Web3 is going just great”... more
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The markets are crashing - and that includes both Netflix and the media companies that wanted to be Netflix. What’s... more
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Design genius Jony Ive was Steve Jobs’ chief collaborator at Apple. But Ive didn’t run Apple after Jobs’ death: That... more
Wesley Morris wrote his first review when he was 15 years old, about the movie “Cape Fear.” Since then, he’s... more
It’s been a big week for media events involving tens of billions of dollars: Elon Musk is buying Twitter for... more
Elon Musk loves Twitter and also thinks it’s broken. So he wants to buy it. Can he, really? And who would... more
Within the past few months, Disney CEO Bob Chapek managed to piss off his shareholders, the LGBT community, and right-wing... more
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