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Michael Jordan's Last Dance, with director Jason Hehir
34 mins; May 06, 2020
The man behind The Office brings you the future, on Amazon
49 mins; April 29, 2020
Matthew Ball on how the pandemic will remake TV, movies and video games
57 mins; April 22, 2020
How the Atlantic is thriving in the pandemic
44 mins; April 15, 2020
Jeffrey Katzenberg's $1.75 billion bet on Quibi
67 hours 44 mins; April 05, 2020
TikTok, Facebook and podcasts respond to the pandemic
51 mins; April 01, 2020
Making people laugh during a pandemic, with Jon Lovett and Jon Gabrus
66 hours 43 mins; March 25, 2020
How social media works - and doesn’t — during the pandemic
53 mins; March 18, 2020
Why the Coronavirus canceled the NBA, with ESPN’s Brian Windhorst
59 mins; March 11, 2020
How streaming changed comedy with Vulture’s Jesse David Fox
61 hours 25 mins; March 04, 2020
ViacomCBS gets into the streaming wars, too. Sort of.
29 mins; February 26, 2020
Food52’s surprising success story, with co-founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs
52 mins; February 19, 2020
Local news is dying. John Thornton wants to save it.
46 mins; February 12, 2020
Spotify, The Ringer and the future of podcasts
20 mins; February 06, 2020
How Netflix is changing The Oscars
48 mins; February 05, 2020
Why Ben Smith is leaving BuzzFeed for the New York Times
34 mins; January 29, 2020
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti reboots his business plan
29 mins; January 22, 2020
NBC’s Peacock enters the Streaming Wars
22 mins; January 17, 2020
Anna Wiener on disillusionment with startup culture
63 hours 8 mins; January 15, 2020
How The Safdie Bros. landed Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems
33 mins; January 08, 2020
Adam Davidson on how to thrive in this economy
64 hours 14 mins; January 01, 2020
Streaming wars! (Don’t call them streaming wars!) and everything else we learned in 2019, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw
43 mins; December 25, 2019
Eat up! Food talk with The Infatuation’s Chris Stang and the New Yorker’s Helen Rosner
87 hours 28 mins; December 18, 2019
Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc on the internet, TV and her famous founder
30 mins; December 16, 2019
The anatomy of a hit song, with Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding
51 mins; December 11, 2019
Roger Lynch’s plan to save Condé Nast
34 mins; December 09, 2019
DAZN's John Skipper and the future of streaming sports
30 mins; December 04, 2019
The men who want to remake Sports Illustrated: Maven’s James Heckman and Ross Levinsohn
42 mins; December 02, 2019
Carolyn Everson runs the Facebook ad machine
37 mins; November 27, 2019
John Stankey’s plan for HBO, HBO Max and WarnerMedia
38 mins; November 25, 2019
Meet the man behind Disney+: Live from Code Media with Kevin Mayer
42 mins; November 20, 2019
Scott Z. Burns on making movies with Amazon, Netflix & Steven Soderbergh
46 mins; November 17, 2019
Did Disney+ and Apple TV+ live up to the hype?
37 mins; November 13, 2019
What's next for The New York Times after The Daily?
39 mins; November 10, 2019
Matt Levine left Goldman to become a journalist. Great move!
52 mins; November 06, 2019
It's not HBO... It's HBO Max. Plus Steve Swartz, CEO of Hearst on turning a magazine publisher into a diversified media company
56 mins; October 31, 2019
How the Wu-Tang Clan raised Sophia Chang
39 mins; October 23, 2019
Can AI Teach You To Write Better?
24 mins; October 19, 2019
How The Athletic CEO Alex Mather convinced people to pay for sports news on the internet
45 mins; October 16, 2019
How Shea Serrano used the internet to become a best-selling author
43 mins; October 09, 2019
BuzzFeed News' Ben Smith on covering Trump and making money
59 mins; October 02, 2019
Complex CEO Rich Antoniello on running a youth culture media empire
57 mins; September 26, 2019
Vox Media + NY Media CEOs Jim Bankoff and Pamela Wasserstein go behind the deal
33 mins; September 25, 2019
Behind the scenes of the Brett Kavanaugh investigation with NYT's Kate Kelly
52 mins; September 24, 2019
Craiglist's Craig Newmark is using his power and money to save journalism
35 mins; September 18, 2019
How Survivor and The Sopranos created Trump, with New York Times critic James Poniewozik
55 mins; September 11, 2019
Apple TV+ is coming. Will you pay for it?
20 mins; September 10, 2019
The epic battle for Uber, with Mike Isaac from the New York Times
55 mins; September 04, 2019
The decline of the right wing troll with CNN’s Oliver Darcy
52 mins; August 28, 2019
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley wants to know where you are
50 mins; August 21, 2019
The Sportswriter: The Ringer's Bryan Curtis on the sports-media-politics mash-up
52 mins; August 14, 2019
Taylor Lorenz on TikTok, Twitter … and Tumblr
59 mins; August 07, 2019
John Harris, co-founder of Politico
45 mins; August 01, 2019
Splice's Steve Martocci wants to remake the music business + All things Amazon with Recode's Jason Del Rey
64 hours 43 mins; July 24, 2019
Chuck Klosterman on Trump, Twitter and cancel culture - and his new book
55 mins; July 17, 2019
Media mogul watch at Sun Valley with Dylan Byers + Erin Lee Carr on making true crime documentaries
49 mins; July 10, 2019
The Texas Tribune’s secret sauce, with Emily Ramshaw
45 mins; July 03, 2019
How Roger Ailes built Fox News - and how Gabriel Sherman turned Ailes’ story into a TV show
40 mins; June 26, 2019
Vimeo’s Anjali Sud shifted the company’s strategy — and became its CEO + The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson on the limits of the ‘attention economy’
80 hours 57 mins; June 19, 2019
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger at the Code Conference
30 mins; June 12, 2019
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at the Code Conference
39 mins; June 11, 2019
Matthew Ball on Amazon vs Apple vs Netflix vs Disney, and how he built a digital media career by writing for free
60 hours 0 mins; June 05, 2019
ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro on how he’s reshaping the network
54 mins; May 29, 2019
YouTube’s Neal Mohan is trying to police the world's largest video site
51 mins; May 22, 2019
Eugene Wei explains why we’re all ‘status monkeys’ on social media
60 hours 52 mins; May 15, 2019
Nick Hornby on writing for TV, 10 minutes at a time
39 mins; May 13, 2019
Game of Thrones is down to its last dragon + Hulu CEO Randy Freer
68 hours 58 mins; May 08, 2019
Digital media pioneer Jason Hirschhorn on the Netflix vs. Everyone Else
62 hours 31 mins; May 06, 2019
Kickstarter’s Perry Chen on 10 years and billions of dollars of crowdfunding
64 hours 38 mins; May 01, 2019
New York Magazine editor David Haskell on taking over after an industry legend
48 mins; April 24, 2019
Why Jessi Hempel left a superstar writing career for LinkedIn
47 mins; April 17, 2019
Disney enters the streaming wars + AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan
66 hours 33 mins; April 15, 2019
"Savage News" author Jessica Yellin on the dark side (and the silly side) of TV news
48 mins; April 10, 2019
Nilay Patel and Peter Kafka talk about Apple's media event
49 mins; April 03, 2019
How Brat co-founder Rob Fishman is making TV for the internet's young women
40 mins; March 27, 2019
The business of podcasting with Jacob Weisberg, Bethany McLean and Marshall Williams
66 hours 37 mins; March 20, 2019
Brian Stelter, host of CNN's "Reliable Sources"
63 hours 58 mins; March 18, 2019
Alex Gibney, director of HBO's Theranos documentary "The Inventor"
36 mins; March 13, 2019
"Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban on investing, sports gambling and how he helped Elon Musk
46 mins; March 11, 2019
The New Yorker's Jane Mayer on Fox News and the Trump White House
13 mins; March 07, 2019
Overtime CEO Dan Porter on making sports media for Gen Z
51 mins; March 06, 2019
J2 Global CEO Vivek Shah on being a serial acquirer of media businesses
43 mins; February 27, 2019
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on sports gambling and buying Time Warner
30 mins; February 20, 2019
Indie.vc founder Bryce Roberts: Why venture capital doesn't work for everyone
47 mins; February 13, 2019
Gimlet co-founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, plus Fortune CEO Alan Murray
65 hours 56 mins; February 06, 2019
Jill Abramson on BuzzFeed layoffs, "Merchants of Truth" and the local news crisis
48 mins; January 30, 2019
NYU's Jay Rosen says 2020's political journalism will be even worse than 2016's
55 mins; January 23, 2019
Axios business editor Dan Primack on newsletters, IPOs and the economy in 2019
48 mins; January 16, 2019
Harvard's Susan Crawford on the importance of fiber internet
34 mins; January 09, 2019
Neil Vogel on turning around an aging internet property
44 mins; January 02, 2019
Filmmaker Hao Wu and Loretta Chao on streaming culture in China
43 mins; December 26, 2018
Lydia Polgreen talks to Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian
95 hours 13 mins; December 19, 2018
The big business of being a social media star
52 mins; December 12, 2018
Axios reporter Jonathan Swan talks to Maggie Haberman about reporting on the Trump administration
43 mins; December 06, 2018
Former GE and NBC executive Beth Comstock
56 mins; November 29, 2018
How Twitch's CEO thinks about tech addiction
51 mins; November 21, 2018
Netflix will get ads, predicts The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green
50 mins; November 14, 2018
Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?
33 mins; November 12, 2018
John Skipper: You’ve heard of ESPN. Now give DAZN a try.
54 mins; November 08, 2018
'The Front Runner' director Jason Reitman
36 mins; October 31, 2018
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