The 10 Best Recode Media Podcast Episodes
1) Zach Seward started Quartz, sold it, and bought it back. Now what?
Zach Seward co-founded Quartz, the brainy business news site, in 2012. Six years later, it had a new owner, and two years after that, Seward bought it back. Now he’s trying to maintain Quartz’s invent...Show More
2) NYT CEO Mark Thompson on subscriptions, platforms and internal Slack fights; IAC’s Joey Levin bets on betting.
Outgoing New York Times CEO Mark Thompson talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about the eight years he spent transforming the paper from an ad-based business to one supported by subscribers; his views on bi...Show More
3) Substack CEO Chris Best
Chris Best, the CEO and co-founder of Substack, talks with the Verge's Casey Newton about how and why writers are starting paid email newsletters. In this episode:01:40 - What is Substack?03:00 - Why...Show More
4) Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez wants to make the Marvel of podcasts
Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez, whose company specializes in long-form, narrative podcasts like “Dirty John”, talks with Recode’s Peter Kafka about the state of the podcast industry and how his business has...Show More
5) Why Zeynep Tufekci saw the pandemic coming - and what else she knows
Zeynep Tufekci is an academic and writes for the Atlantic. She’s not an epidemiologist. So how did she see the pandemic coming before most everyone else? Tufekci sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to...Show More
6) ‘The King of Content’ author Keach Hagey explains the Redstone dynasty
Wall Street Journal media reporter Keach Hagey talks with Recode’s Peter Kafka about her new book, “The King of Content: Sumner Redstone’s Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media ...Show More
7) Why podcasts are better than radio (Jad Abumrad, co-host, Radiolab)
Jad Abumrad, the co-host of WNYC Studios' hit show Radiolab, talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about the new season of More Perfect, a spinoff podcast about the Supreme Court. Abumrad says he was gettin...Show More
Why podcasts are better than radio (Jad Abumrad, co-host, Radiolab)
36:38 | Sep 28th, 2017
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8) How blocking ads can save the media industry (Tony Haile, CEO, Scroll)
Scroll CEO Tony Haile talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about his company's not-yet-launched product that will let news consumers pay once for a clean, ad-free experience across multiple news outlets an...Show More
9) Why this four-hour Grateful Dead documentary took 14 years to make (Amir Bar-Lev, director, 'Long Strange Trip')
Amir Bar-Lev, the director of the new documentary "Long Strange Trip," talks with Recode's Peter Kafka. The four-hour film, which traces the history and cultural impact of the Grateful Dead and its fa...Show More
10) Chuck Klosterman talks about Nazis, Taylor Swift and the future of journalism
Writer Chuck Klosterman talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about his new book, "Chuck Klosterman X," a collection of essays and profiles he wrote for such outlets as Esquire, Grantland and the New York T...Show More