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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.

Inside the Trump White House (Mike Allen, co-founder, Axios)

48 mins; April 12, 2017

Why TV is different from YouTube (Reza Izad, CEO, Studio71)

36 mins; April 05, 2017

Uber investor Jason Calacanis doesn't want to hear your idea

69 hours 16 mins; March 29, 2017

How to be a rock musician in 2017 (Craig Finn, 'We All Want the Same Things')

47 mins; March 22, 2017

Glenn Beck doesn't care if he alienates Trump voters (Live at SXSW)

41 mins; March 15, 2017

The Huffington Post wants to reach Trump voters (Lydia Polgreen, editor in chief, The Huffington Post)

52 mins; March 08, 2017

'Why is this on Mashable?' asks Executive Editor Jessica Coen

44 mins; March 01, 2017

Making a superhero movie for adults (Scott Frank, screenwriter, 'Logan')

33 mins; February 22, 2017

The New York Times wants to become like Netflix (Gabriel Snyder, journalist)

29 mins; February 15, 2017

Here’s the secret to making things popular (Derek Thompson, author, ‘Hit Makers’)

49 mins; February 08, 2017

Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget says Trump is pushing 'anti-American' policies

48 mins; February 01, 2017

The future of advertising is 'fewer, better ads' (Ian Schafer, CEO, Deep Focus)

40 mins; January 25, 2017

How the press can save itself in the age of Trump (Jay Rosen, professor, NYU)

49 mins; January 18, 2017

Fox's digital ad guy wants you to use an ad blocker (Joe Marchese, president of advanced advertising, Fox Networks Group)

41 mins; January 11, 2017

How to make $11 million by failing (James Altucher, founder, Choose Yourself Media)

58 mins; January 04, 2017

Why is there no fake news on LinkedIn? (Daniel Roth, executive editor, LinkedIn)

42 mins; December 28, 2016

Kara Swisher: Journalists must be 'tougher on everybody'

55 mins; December 21, 2016

Trump will blow up political journalism (Margaret Sullivan, columnist, the Washington Post)

41 mins; December 14, 2016

Making viral videos before YouTube (Burnie Burns, co-founder, Rooster Teeth)

50 mins; December 07, 2016

Did racism motivate Trump's voters? (Stephen Dubner, co-author, 'Freakonomics')

45 mins; November 30, 2016

Trump-related 'terror and hysteria' isn't justified (Ken Kurson, editor-in-chief, Observer)

44 mins; November 22, 2016

Musicians who fight Spotify are 'so f-cking dumb' (Bob Lefsetz, author, Lefsetz Letter)

60 hours 34 mins; November 16, 2016

The 'Star Trek' reboot could have naked aliens (Jim Lanzone, CEO, CBS Interactive)

42 mins; November 09, 2016

You've outraged the internet? Here's how to apologize. (Bryan Goldberg, CEO, Bustle)

41 mins; November 02, 2016

How tech PR works (Brooke Hammerling, founder, Brew Media)

42 mins; October 27, 2016

Smosh and ScreenJunkies boss Keith Richman: We're looking into TV

35 mins; October 24, 2016

BuzzFeed's video boss Ze Frank on going viral at scale

54 mins; October 19, 2016

Ex-Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau: I'm afraid of a 'smarter Trump'

35 mins; October 17, 2016

Donald Trump is still a 'short-fingered vulgarian' (Kurt Andersen, co-founder, Spy)

31 mins; October 12, 2016

Behind the scenes of 'Vice News Tonight' (Josh Tyrangiel, executive vice president, Vice)

31 mins; October 11, 2016

Keith Olbermann: Covering Donald Trump is like covering a tsunami every day

39 mins; October 05, 2016

"Call Your Girlfriend" co-host Aminatou Sow on how to make a hit podcast

34 mins; September 28, 2016

Skip Bayless: Why I left ESPN for Fox Sports 1

47 mins; September 21, 2016

CNN's Brian Stelter: No, CNN is not biased for Trump

43 mins; September 14, 2016

Gigaom founder Om Malik on the virtues of a heart attack

44 mins; September 07, 2016

The New York Times has to think like a tech startup (Sam Dolnick and Clifford Levy, editors, New York Times)

50 mins; August 31, 2016

Skift CEO Rafat Ali: Small media companies are beautiful

38 mins; August 24, 2016

Gawker wasn't always mean (Elizabeth Spiers, founding editor, Gawker.com)

38 mins; August 17, 2016

James Andrew Miller examines Hollywood's top agents in 'Powerhouse'

39 mins; August 11, 2016

We're not startup bros anymore (Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman, co-founders, Genius)

34 mins; August 03, 2016

So, you’ve been shamed by Twitter (Virginia Heffernan, author, "Magic and Loss")

39 mins; July 27, 2016

Gary Vaynerchuk can't wait for the startup armageddon

22 mins; July 20, 2016

Donald Trump is bad for democracy (Jacob Weisberg, chairman, Slate Group)

36 mins; July 13, 2016

Documentarian Alex Gibney says the Stuxnet virus was a "new kind of weapon"

32 mins; July 06, 2016

Daring Fireball's John Gruber: "I'm a writer first and a businessman second"

39 mins; June 29, 2016

Steve Jobs "literally caught me with my pants down" (Brian Lam, founder, The Wirecutter)

36 mins; June 22, 2016

Malcolm Gladwell wants to make you cry

35 mins; June 16, 2016

The Ringer editor Sean Fennessey on ending Grantland, starting again

34 mins; June 08, 2016

"Warcraft" director Duncan Jones: Don't watch this movie on an iPhone

26 mins; June 01, 2016

You have to fight robots to see Beyoncé (Michael Rapino, CEO, Live Nation)

50 mins; May 25, 2016

How email saved Jason Hirschhorn's life

62 hours 57 mins; May 18, 2016

Samantha Bee says hiring more women = better comedy

29 mins; May 11, 2016

Why Larry Wilmore used the N-word at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

43 mins; May 04, 2016

The NYT's Jenna Wortham just wants to "write about people who look like me”

37 mins; April 27, 2016

"Veep" Producer Frank Rich: Trump Can Win

39 mins; April 20, 2016

Snapchat Should Start Paying Its Users (Hunter Walk, Investor, Homebrew)

38 mins; April 13, 2016

From Fake Steve Jobs to HBO's "Silicon Valley" (Dan Lyons, Author, "Disrupted")

39 mins; April 06, 2016

Millennials Aren't an Alien Species (Philippe von Borries, co-CEO, Refinery29)

37 mins; March 30, 2016

Can Donald Trump Be Stopped? (Nate Silver, Founder, FiveThirtyEight)

38 mins; March 23, 2016

Digital Brands Are a "Sh*t-Ton of Work" (Troy Young, President, Hearst Magazines Digital)

34 mins; March 16, 2016

Peter Gould, Co-Creator, "Better Call Saul"

30 mins; March 09, 2016

Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, theSkimm Co-Founders

31 mins; March 02, 2016

Adrian Wojnarowski, Editor of The Vertical

34 mins; February 24, 2016

David Remnick, The New Yorker Editor

35 mins; February 17, 2016

Andrew Jarecki, "The Jinx" Director

33 mins; February 10, 2016

Chet Kanojia, Starry CEO

36 mins; February 03, 2016

Nick Denton, Gawker Media Founder, and Jason Epstein, Investor

30 mins; January 27, 2016

Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed Executive Editor of News

29 mins; January 20, 2016

Chris Altchek, Mic CEO

28 mins; January 13, 2016

Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures Partner

36 mins; January 06, 2016

Rufus Griscom, Heleo CEO

21 mins; December 30, 2015

Ev Williams, Medium CEO

32 mins; December 23, 2015

Katie Nolan, Fox Sports TV Host

23 mins; December 16, 2015

Brian Rolapp, NFL Media Czar

34 mins; December 09, 2015

Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder

33 mins; December 02, 2015

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