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Media and tech aren’t just intersecting — they’re fully intertwined. And to understand how those worlds work, and what they mean for you, veteran journalist Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers - and gets them to spell it out in plain, BS-free English.Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

Snap VP of Content Nick Bell

43 mins; October 24, 2018

NFL Network analyst Maurice Jones-Drew

58 mins; October 22, 2018

'The Fairway' author Matt Taibbi

47 mins; October 17, 2018

Rival CEO Nathan Hubbard

50 mins; October 10, 2018

Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones

40 mins; October 04, 2018

'The Big Disruption' author Jessica Powell

56 mins; October 02, 2018

The Markup co-founder Julia Angwin

51 mins; September 26, 2018

'Big Game' author Mark Leibovich

57 mins; September 24, 2018

Business of Fashion editor in chief Imran Amed

49 mins; September 19, 2018

'The Land of Steady Habits' director Nicole Holofcener

30 mins; September 17, 2018

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

51 mins; September 14, 2018

Roku CEO Anthony Wood

50 mins; September 12, 2018

Substack CEO Chris Best

47 mins; September 05, 2018

ThinkProgress founder Judd Legum

46 mins; August 29, 2018

Redef CEO Jason Hirschhorn

62 hours 45 mins; August 22, 2018

Digiday editor in chief Brian Morrissey

54 mins; August 15, 2018

Discord CEO Jason Citron

43 mins; August 09, 2018

Product Hunt CEO Ryan Hoover

49 mins; August 01, 2018

'Eighth Grade' director Bo Burnham

43 mins; July 25, 2018

'Billions' producer Brian Koppelman

47 mins; July 18, 2018

Manoush Zomorodi: Can blockchain save journalism?

56 mins; July 11, 2018

Eugene Wei: The invisible ceilings to Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter’s growth

61 hours 39 mins; July 04, 2018

‘The King of Content’ author Keach Hagey explains the Redstone dynasty

42 mins; June 27, 2018

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek (Live at Code 2018)

37 mins; June 20, 2018

Pod Save America co-host Dan Pfeiffer

51 mins; June 18, 2018

Gimlet founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber

49 mins; June 13, 2018

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson (Live at Code 2018)

39 mins; June 11, 2018

Momofuku chef David Chang (Live at Code 2018)

37 mins; June 09, 2018

Jessica Pressler talks 'lady grifters' + Ken Auletta on the 'frenemies' of the ad business

76 hours 36 mins; June 07, 2018

James Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox (Live at Code 2018)

39 mins; June 04, 2018

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Schroepfer (Live at Code 2018)

55 mins; May 31, 2018

Roman Mars, host of 99 Percent Invisible: Don't put podcasts behind a paywall

29 mins; May 29, 2018

Ezra Klein explains Vox's new Netflix show 'Explained'

63 hours 44 mins; May 23, 2018

YouTube's Lyor Cohen on YouTube Music, Childish Gambino and Kanye West

43 mins; May 21, 2018

What people get wrong about Robin Williams’ life — and his death

48 mins; May 16, 2018

The Outline CEO Josh Topolsky: Online ads are stuck in the '90s

60 hours 18 mins; May 09, 2018

'Chasing Hillary' author Amy Chozick looks back on a decade of writing about Hillary Clinton

46 mins; May 02, 2018

This is how the New York Times reports Pulitzer Prize-winning stories

55 mins; April 25, 2018

Our hoax-filled internet, now available as a book (Rex Sorgatz, author, 'The Encyclopedia of Misinformation')

41 mins; April 18, 2018

Outside Magazine editor Axie Navas: Yep, we're getting more political.

45 mins; April 15, 2018

How Marques 'MKBHD' Brownlee got six million subscribers on YouTube

41 mins; April 11, 2018

Financial Times CEO John Ridding: How to make people pay for media

39 mins; April 04, 2018

Why every Hollywood movie is a superhero movie

39 mins; March 28, 2018

What it's like to be the only woman in a TV writers’ room

35 mins; March 21, 2018

Houseparty CEO Ben Rubin on livestreaming and SXSW fame

29 mins; March 16, 2018

'Get Out' producer Jason Blum (Live at SXSW)

45 mins; March 15, 2018

How to make a hit TV show for Amazon

37 mins; March 07, 2018

SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor (Live at Code Media 2018)

28 mins; March 01, 2018

Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (Live at Code Media 2018)

38 mins; February 24, 2018

How Lauren Duca became an internet star overnight

35 mins; February 21, 2018

Hollywood Reporter part owner Janice Min (Live at Code Media 2018)

37 mins; February 19, 2018

BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti (Live at Code Media 2018)

36 mins; February 16, 2018

Facebook's Adam Mosseri and Campbell Brown (Live at Code Media 2018)

54 mins; February 14, 2018

MoviePass sounds too good to be true. Is it?

40 mins; February 07, 2018

Paywalls make content better (Nick Thompson, editor in chief, Wired)

43 mins; January 31, 2018

How we pivoted from Facebook to Instagram (Dave Finocchio, CEO, Bleacher Report)

53 mins; January 24, 2018

NYU’s Jay Rosen, CNN’s Oliver Darcy and BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel talk Trump and the media

89 hours 26 mins; January 17, 2018

Digital media companies are headed for a crash (David Carey, president, Hearst Magazines)

44 mins; January 10, 2018

Will Trump still dominate the news in 2018?

42 mins; January 03, 2018

Kara Swisher reviews the media, 2017 edition

46 mins; December 27, 2017

Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir want to make figure skating great again

33 mins; December 20, 2017

How Netflix makes a hit (Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank, co-creators, ‘Godless’)

50 mins; December 13, 2017

I'm more famous than Anderson Cooper (Cenk Uygur, CEO, The Young Turks)

41 mins; December 06, 2017

Andy Weir on 'The Martian,' 'Artemis' and when we'll live on the moon

44 mins; November 29, 2017

Hollywood’s sexual harassment story is far from over (Kim Masters, editor-at-large, Hollywood Reporter)

41 mins; November 21, 2017

Don't 'lean in,' fight back (Sarah Lacy, author, 'The Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug')

53 mins; November 15, 2017

How to make a ‘comedy-horror’ TV show (Dana Gould, creator, ‘Stan Against Evil’)

44 mins; November 08, 2017

How Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner built and lost a rock and roll empire (Joe Hagan, author, "Sticky Fingers")

60 hours 55 mins; November 01, 2017

NYT's Michael Barbaro explains why you love 'The Daily'

38 mins; October 27, 2017

Samantha Bee on Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump (Live)

47 mins; October 25, 2017

How blocking ads can save the media industry (Tony Haile, CEO, Scroll)

52 mins; October 18, 2017

Jimmy Kimmel on the intersection of comedy and politics

19 mins; October 16, 2017

How to start a company when you’re 25 years old (Brit Morin, CEO, Brit + Co)

44 mins; October 11, 2017

Sports have always been political (Jason Gay, columnist, Wall Street Journal)

49 mins; October 04, 2017

Why podcasts are better than radio (Jad Abumrad, co-host, Radiolab)

36 mins; September 27, 2017

When is the internet going to change TV ads? (Dave Morgan, CEO, Simulmedia)

70 hours 0 mins; September 20, 2017

Why Ken Burns won't leave PBS for HBO

43 mins; September 14, 2017

How to pay for serious journalism (Clara Jeffery, editor in chief, Mother Jones)

45 mins; September 06, 2017

How to compete against Google and Facebook: Go around them! (Tim Armstrong, CEO, Oath)

51 mins; August 30, 2017

A guided tour of the pro-Trump media (Oliver Darcy, CNN; Charlie Warzel, BuzzFeed)

55 mins; August 23, 2017

Chuck Klosterman talks about Nazis, Taylor Swift and the future of journalism

71 hours 2 mins; August 16, 2017

Patreon will help fans pay artists more than $140 million this year (Jack Conte, CEO, Patreon)

36 mins; August 09, 2017

Everyone still wants to be on TV (Tonia O'Connor, chief revenue officer, Univision)

44 mins; August 02, 2017

How food became cool (Larry Fitzgibbon, CEO, Tastemade; Helen Rosner, editor at large, Eater)

52 mins; July 26, 2017

How to make a bestseller that lasts (Ryan Holiday, author, 'Perennial Seller')

42 mins; July 19, 2017

Shari Redstone, Vice Chair, Viacom (Code Conference 2017)

27 mins; July 12, 2017

Podcasting is growing up (Nick Quah, founder, Hot Pod)

49 mins; July 05, 2017

Why Hillary Clinton won't admit that she made mistakes (Rebecca Traister, writer at large, New York Magazine)

55 mins; June 28, 2017

What Peter Thiel’s war against Gawker can tell us about Trump (Brian Knappenberger, director, "Nobody Speak")

27 mins; June 21, 2017

Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, The New York Times (Code Conference 2017)

38 mins; June 16, 2017

Meet the Wall Street analyst the big media companies love to hate (Rich Greenfield, analyst, BTIG)

56 mins; June 15, 2017

Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix (Code Conference 2017)

34 mins; June 10, 2017

BuzzFeed chairman and HuffPost co-founder Ken Lerer on the future of media

45 mins; June 08, 2017

'Better Call Saul' actor Michael McKean doesn't care how you watch

38 mins; June 01, 2017

Why this four-hour Grateful Dead documentary took 14 years to make (Amir Bar-Lev, director, 'Long Strange Trip')

33 mins; May 24, 2017

Information doesn't have to be free (Jessica Lessin, CEO, The Information)

52 mins; May 17, 2017

W. Kamau Bell talks about Trump, racism and podcasting

35 mins; May 10, 2017

Tracking a drug boss across the web (Nick Bilton, author, 'American Kingpin')

48 mins; May 03, 2017

The New York 'Startup' scene gets a novel (Doree Shafrir, author)

40 mins; April 26, 2017

How Neil Gaiman's ‘American Gods’ finally made it to TV

41 mins; April 19, 2017

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