Eli Pariser wants to build a better Facebook
Nearly 10 years ago, Eli Pariser coined the term “filter bubble” — the idea that Facebook and other platforms limit our view of the world through software choices. Now he wants to create new, non-prof...
3 Dec 202040min
Gimlet’s Lydia Polgreen wants to shake up podcasting
Spotify is making a huge push into podcasting. Lydia Polgreen is helping to figure out what means. Gimlet’s head of content sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk about the experimenting she’s do...
25 Nov 202044min
BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti explains his HuffPost deal
Jonah Peretti co-founded Huffington Post, then left to start BuzzFeed. Now he’s running both companies. He sits down with Recode Media’s Peter Kafka to explain the logic behind the deal, his ambitions...
20 Nov 202026min
ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish on Paramount+, Pluto TV
Viacom and CBS merged a year ago. Now their CEO Bob Bakish sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk about the company’s future, and its bets on streaming. Featuring: Bob Bakish, CEO of ViacomCBS H...
19 Nov 202033min
Fox and the New York Times face the end of the Trump era
New York Magazine’s Reeves Wiedeman sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to discuss the messy internal workings of The New York Times, which changed dramatically during the Trump presidency. Then NPR’s...
12 Nov 20201h 3min
NY Mag's Olivia Nuzzi takes us inside Trumpworld, post Election Day
Washington correspondent for New York Mag, Olivia Nuzzi, sits down with Recode's Peter Kafka to tell us what she’s hearing and seeing after the election, what she saw before the election, what really ...
5 Nov 202044min
Election 2020: What happens next?
Vox senior correspondent Matt Yglesias drops by to unpack a wild election night. What just happened? What do we think will happen next? Why were the polls wrong - again? What could the media have done...
4 Nov 202038min
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...
29 Okt 20201h 6min
