The Verge’s Ashley Carman on podcasting’s big year
2021 was the year everyone who wasn’t already in podcasting jumped in the pool - and everyone who was already there spent more time and money trying to move the industry from promising to profitable. ...
27 Dec 202136min
What the hell happened in 2021? With Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw.
How do you describe what happened to the media world in 2021? What happened to the movie business, streaming, music, TikTok, and more? Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw joins Recode’s Peter Kafka to sort what ch...
20 Dec 202145min
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar’s almost-exit interview
Jason Kilar does not have opinions about the finale of HBO’s Succession, because he hasn’t seen it yet. The CEO of HBO’s parent company, WarnerMedia, does have opinions about lots of other stuff, thou...
15 Dec 202149min
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti has gone public
BuzzFeed used to be an internet experiment. Now it’s a publicly-traded company that expects more than $500 million in revenue this year. CEO Jonah Peretti talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about the route...
6 Dec 202135min
@Jack is leaving Twitter. What now? + Lina Khan’s battle with Big Tech
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is no longer the CEO of Twitter. Why did he leave? And what does the choice of his successor, Parag Agrawal, tell us about Twitter’s future? Bloomberg’s Kurt Wagner sits...
2 Dec 202145min
Director Rhys Thomas on his unlikely journey from SNL to Disney’s Hawkeye
Rhys Thomas used to make short films for Saturday Night Live. Now he’s making Hawkeye, the newest installment of Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, which debuts on Disney+ this week. Thomas sits down...
23 Nov 202139min
The inside story of HBO, with Jim Miller
HBO has brought us nearly 50 years of riveting movies and TV shows; the behind-the-scenes stories are equally compelling. Journalist James Andrew Miller, who has written definitive oral histories of m...
18 Nov 202158min
What is Twitter Blue and is it worth $3?
Twitter is free. But Twitter Blue — a new service for Twitter super-users — costs $3 a month. So what is Twitter Blue and why should you pay for it? Twitter product executive Tony Haile, who joined th...
11 Nov 202131min
