Channels with Peter Kafka
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.
How to build your own media company - without VCs or billionaires
Meet the man making money for Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly
Taylor Lorenz on Joe Rogan, Joe Biden and goodbye to big media.
Elon Musk funds Trump — and owns Twitter. What does that mean?
Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett wants to win an election and make money
Emma Tucker brought fresh eyes to the Wall Street Journal
Tubi CEO Anjali Sud says you can’t beat free
Behind the scenes of the Trump movie you almost never saw
Matt Yglesias on the election, Substack success and the great unbundling
I tried Orion, Mark Zuckerberg's $10k face computer
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan wants to share the wealth
How David Remnick remade the New Yorker
Welcome to Channels with Peter Kafka
That’s a wrap (for now)
Sam Altman’s back at OpenAI. What’s next?
What just happened to OpenAI?
Why so, Sirius?
No seriously. What’s the future of Disney? And why did Fox News fire Tucker Carlson?
Land of the Giants: What We All Got Wrong About Twitter
How Dropout found success streaming comedy for $6 a month
Inside the New York Times’ controversial Gaza headline
How the Washington Post is covering the Israel-Hamas War
The rise and (maybe) fall of Marvel
The internet, explained by Taylor Lorenz
Warner Music Group’s CEO says AI songs are coming whether you like it or not
HBO boss Casey Bloys on the strikes, the bundle and AI
Why did it take 5 months to solve the Writers’ Strike?
Why did Rupert Murdoch just leave his media empire?
How Matthew Berry made fake football his real job
Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Rise and Fall
The Business of Taylor Swift
It’s the US vs China with tech in between
CNN is Mark Thompson’s problem now
How The Try Guys survived going viral
Today, Explained: Sound of Freedom is the surprise movie hit of the summer
Land of the Giants: How Tesla became the Elon Musk Co.
Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker says tech isn’t our problem - it’s us
Why Lina Khan is fighting big tech - and losing
Strikes! AI! And a Steven Soderbergh show he’s selling himself.
Can Meta Make a Twitter Killer?
Why ESPN’s old boss made movies you can’t see - yet
How to make laughs on TikTok and action on Netflix
Is Instagram the place to unbreak news?
Meet the AI company that wants to remake Hollywood
CNN’s CEO is out; Apple reveals its goggles
NYT rising star Astead Herndon on podcasts, power, and the 2024 race
Meet the media insider who makes Succession feel real
It’s TV’s biggest week - and TV is on strike
Ken Jennings on the future of Jeopardy!
How worried—or excited—should we be about AI?
Jonah Peretti, Nick Denton and Ben Smith on digital news’ past and future
Inside the AI Gold Rush
AI is the future! AI is a fraud. Let's debate.
Has Fox News learned a $787 million lesson?
'Chef Reactions' blew up on TikTok. But will TikTok blow up?
Why is a talent agency buying pro wrestling? Plus a green media startup
Is Apple sure about Apple’s new Goggles? Plus Roger Bennett, Media Mogul
Podcast pioneer Jesse Thorn built his own business. Now his employees own it.
An SVB (phew!) update + Benedict Evans on the future of (almost) everything
Science fiction pioneer Neal Stephenson on the metaverse, the movies and why he still believes in blockchain
Meet the woman who got De La Soul streaming
Real-life “Succession”: Jim Stewart on Sumner Redstone’s sordid saga
We quiz BuzzFeed’s CEO about AI
Why is tech in trouble if the economy is ok?
Land of the Giants: The Hidden Hand Behind Your Swipes
Don't tell investor Li Jin that Web3 is dead
How The Last of Us went from hit game to hit zombie tv
"Resist trying to make things better" - a conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos
Was YouTube’s NFL deal a $2 billion mistake?
Apple’s new goggles; Hollywood’s new streaming pitch.
Reader Mail!
An Elon-free year in review
A n00b’s guide to the Microsoft / Activision deal the FTC wants to stop
Why the media landscape is “dire” with WSJ’s Jessica Toonkel
How Eventbrite survived the pandemic, and why it’s not fighting Ticketmaster
It’s not TV it’s HBO — the book
How to watch a complicated World Cup
Life, the internet, and everything with Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick
What Elon’s past tells us about his present
Tech’s big bust, plus Marvel (and Wakanda) Forever?
Election special with Punchbowl's Jake Sherman
Jason Gay isn’t making Elon Musk jokes
Bloomberg’s Matt Levine still loves crypto; Ankler’s Janice Min loves newsletters
Ben Smith says Semafor will take 10 years to get right
Netflix is back (?) + Julia Boorstin on women who lead
Inside the curious mind of XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe
Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Really. (Really?)
Interview with Interview with a Vampire’s Eric Bogosian
YouTube fights TikTok with cash
José Andrés has a full plate, but he's adding more
The inside story of YouTube
Why the Good Fight creators are glad they moved from CBS to streaming
Algorithms that give you anxiety and a Web3 project that doesn't suck.
Home Box Office of the Dragon
Why the Democrats finally got on TikTok
Land of the Giants: Why Instagram Broke Its Square
B.J. Novak on “Vengeance”, podcasts and the downside of the streaming boom
What is the metaverse, when is it going to show up and who’s going to run it?
Ken Auletta on the Harvey Weinstein story he wrote, the story he couldn’t write, and the one he’s publishing now.
Netflix has a huge hit with Peaky Blinders — and Caryn Mandabach owns it.
The future of: Crypto criticism; Substack and ABC News
Is this a Netflix problem or a streaming problem?
Bill Simmons on podcasts, celebrity interviews and life at Spotify
Why is this VC on your TikTok?
Engineer Molly White explains why Web3 isn’t going great
Is Big Tech getting better about misinformation?
What can you learn from the guy who built the iPod?
Ronan Farrow: “We are living in a post-privacy age”
Behind the scenes at Apple with journalist Tripp Mickle
NYT’s Wesley Morris on writing, podcasting and staying off TikTok
Can Elon Fix Twitter? Can Reed Fix Netflix?
Elon and Twitter: A love/hate story
Disney vs. Itself vs. The Right
The State of Streaming
Judd Apatow on The Bubble, TikTok and The Slap
The Oscars: Hollywood’s smallest biggest night?
Dan Le Batard on life after ESPN; Russia sanctions upend big-time soccer
Big Tech takes a side, finally + Zappos' tragic founder
Covering the war in Ukraine, online and on the ground
Uber, but for TV
Chuck Klosterman relives the 1990s & Sarah Palin loses her NYT libel suit
What's next for CNN? + The Afterparty's Ben Schwartz writes jokes for C-3PO
Is Spotify’s Joe Rogan problem over? Plus how to launch a new media startup.
Game on: Behind the sports betting boom
Gaming out Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal
So … what the hell is Web3? With the Chernin Group’s Jarrod Dicker
How the right covers 1/6 + tales from the Theranos trial, with Oliver Darcy and Erin Griffith
The Verge’s Ashley Carman on podcasting’s big year
What the hell happened in 2021? With Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw.
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar’s almost-exit interview
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti has gone public
@Jack is leaving Twitter. What now? + Lina Khan’s battle with Big Tech
Director Rhys Thomas on his unlikely journey from SNL to Disney’s Hawkeye
The inside story of HBO, with Jim Miller
What is Twitter Blue and is it worth $3?
Facebook’s Metaverse explained - by metaverse explainer Matthew Ball. Plus Justin Smith builds a media biz for Bloomb
How to cover the Facebook leaks + SNL’s Heidi Gardner
Dotdash CEO Neil Vogel on his $2.7 billion Meredith deal
Land of the Giants: "He's No Steve Jobs"
Ozy Media, RIP with NYT’s Ben Smith + Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on remaking a magazine giant
Streamers shrink Hollywood, again + What’s a “Hate Raid”?
How Peter Thiel went from Silicon Valley to The White House with Max Chafkin
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri on teenagers, Tik-Tok and paying creators
Big changes at Apple: New phones, new AR glasses, and big app store changes.
Defector Media: Life after Deadspin is good (and profitable)
OnlyFans’ weird week with MEL’s Magdalene Taylor; BuzzFeed’s Joe Bernstein on the problem with our misinformation problem.
WWE’s Nick Khan on pivoting his streaming strategy and getting back in the ring
NYT’s Shira Ovide on the everything and nothingness of tech.
Reese’s $900 million deal; ScarJo vs Disney with Matt Belloni, + Derek Thompson on how the media covers Delta
Director Tom McCarthy on Stillwater, finishing a movie in a pandemic and playing one of the Wire’s best villains
Deep fakes come to the movies and Hollywood resets for the streaming era
WeWork's rise and fall (and rise again?) with Eliot Brown
Kevin Delaney turns the future of work into a media business; plus a Sun Valley update from David Gura.
Men In Blazers’ Roger Bennett loves soccer and America
One of the most popular streamers on Twitch… is a lefty political commentator? Hasan Piker explains
One of Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors is now a media company, too
Jake and Amir on being Web famous, fed up with Hollywood, and podcast bosses
How to make it in the creator economy with Rob Walker
Why is Amazon buying MGM?
Jim Miller on HBO’s new home; Alan Yang on a very different season of “Master of None”
Why did AT&T just bail on WarnerMedia? And what happens next?
Antonio García Martínez's controversial exit from Apple
Live music is back! Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino can't wait
The Jeff Bezos Empire with Brad Stone & Jason Del Rey
Apple vs Epic with John Gruber; Truth, Doubt and History with Jill Lepore
AMC Networks can’t compete with Netflix. CEO Josh Sapan is fine with that.
Did the pandemic kill the Oscars?
Apple and Facebook's ambitious audio plans
Substack’s next target: Local news
How Hollywood and the NBA are betting on NFTs
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on a wild first year on the job
Media Merger Mania with Axios’ Dan Primack and WSJ’s Ben Mullin
The rise and maybe fall of YouTube star David Dobrik; inside Facebook with the Markup’s Julia Angwin
How Christina “Tinx” Najjar became a TikTok star overnight
How did - and didn’t - the pandemic transform media?
Fubo TV is a Reddit meme stock. CEO David Gandler has bigger ambitions.
Have we hit peak streaming? + NYT’s Kevin Roose on his new book “Futureproof”
Australia vs. Facebook; Al Madrigal means business about All Things Comedy
Pandora founder Tim Westergren on the future of streaming
New York Times CEO Meredith Levien on the future of news, and her newspaper
How To Make An Influencer In America with Nick Bilton
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Gamestop, Robinhood, Reddit and how to fix the system.
How Jessica Lessin got people to pay for The Information
Trump vs the Press - a final report card from Jay Rosen
What the Capitol Riot tells us about online power
Behind the making of The Dissident, the movie about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
Zach Seward started Quartz, sold it, and bought it back. Now what?
Kemp Powers spent years breaking into Hollywood — and his first film is Pixar’s Soul
Trump is leaving; Trump media isn't
Behind the scenes with Queen’s Gambit creator Scott Frank
Eli Pariser wants to build a better Facebook
Gimlet’s Lydia Polgreen wants to shake up podcasting
BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti explains his HuffPost deal
ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish on Paramount+, Pluto TV
Fox and the New York Times face the end of the Trump era
NY Mag's Olivia Nuzzi takes us inside Trumpworld, post Election Day
Election 2020: What happens next?
Why Zeynep Tufekci saw the pandemic coming - and what else she knows
Google vs The U.S. Government
ESPN’s Pablo Torre on balancing sports and politics
Congress comes for big tech; Axios thrives in the pandemic
Is big media bouncing back from the pandemic?
Politico editor Carrie Budoff Brown on the challenge of covering 2020
QAnon Explained with NBC's Ben Collins
Ben Thompson explains TikTok, Trump and China
Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman is building a media brand one newsletter at a time
Baratunde Thurston wants to teach us how to be a good citizen
NYT’s James Poniewozik on the virtual conventions; CNN’s Brian Stelter on Trump + Fox
Why Desus & Mero are pandemic-proof
NYT CEO Mark Thompson on subscriptions, platforms and internal Slack fights; IAC’s Joey Levin bets on betting.
Kurt Andersen on the “Evil Geniuses” that got America into this mess
Sports are back! But for how long?
Why your favorite writers are taking their talents to Substack. Plus: Peacock!
Hank Green on everything YouTube, Tik Tok, podcasting, and Montana
How to run a newspaper in Hong Kong: South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu
Why Fox bet $450 million on Tubi and free streaming
How Netflix became a streaming giant
W. Kamau Bell wants to help you understand racism
Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez wants to make the Marvel of podcasts
Conferences were a great business — before the pandemic
Twitter, Trump, Facebook and George Floyd with NYT’s Charlie Warzel
HBO Max is here!
Meet the man who made Netflix’s most popular movie
Joe Rogan takes his podcast to Spotify
It’s Twitch’s Time: Talking live streaming with gamer Dr. Lupo and journalist Bijan Stephen
How Tara Reade told her story
Michael Jordan's Last Dance, with director Jason Hehir
The man behind The Office brings you the future, on Amazon
Matthew Ball on how the pandemic will remake TV, movies and video games
How the Atlantic is thriving in the pandemic
Jeffrey Katzenberg's $1.75 billion bet on Quibi
TikTok, Facebook and podcasts respond to the pandemic
Making people laugh during a pandemic, with Jon Lovett and Jon Gabrus
How social media works - and doesn’t — during the pandemic
Why the Coronavirus canceled the NBA, with ESPN’s Brian Windhorst
How streaming changed comedy with Vulture’s Jesse David Fox
ViacomCBS gets into the streaming wars, too. Sort of.
Food52’s surprising success story, with co-founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs
Local news is dying. John Thornton wants to save it.
Spotify, The Ringer and the future of podcasts
How Netflix is changing The Oscars
Why Ben Smith is leaving BuzzFeed for the New York Times
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti reboots his business plan
NBC’s Peacock enters the Streaming Wars
Anna Wiener on disillusionment with startup culture
How The Safdie Bros. landed Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems
Adam Davidson on how to thrive in this economy
Streaming wars! (Don’t call them streaming wars!) and everything else we learned in 2019, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw
Eat up! Food talk with The Infatuation’s Chris Stang and the New Yorker’s Helen Rosner
Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc on the internet, TV and her famous founder
The anatomy of a hit song, with Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding
Roger Lynch’s plan to save Condé Nast
DAZN's John Skipper and the future of streaming sports
The men who want to remake Sports Illustrated: Maven’s James Heckman and Ross Levinsohn
Carolyn Everson runs the Facebook ad machine
John Stankey’s plan for HBO, HBO Max and WarnerMedia
Meet the man behind Disney+: Live from Code Media with Kevin Mayer
Scott Z. Burns on making movies with Amazon, Netflix & Steven Soderbergh
Did Disney+ and Apple TV+ live up to the hype?
What's next for The New York Times after The Daily?
Matt Levine left Goldman to become a journalist. Great move!
It's not HBO... It's HBO Max. Plus Steve Swartz, CEO of Hearst on turning a magazine publisher into a diversified media company
How the Wu-Tang Clan raised Sophia Chang
Introducing Reset: Can AI Teach You To Write Better?
How The Athletic CEO Alex Mather convinced people to pay for sports news on the internet
How Shea Serrano used the internet to become a best-selling author
BuzzFeed News' Ben Smith on covering Trump and making money
Complex CEO Rich Antoniello on running a youth culture media empire
Vox Media + NY Media CEOs Jim Bankoff and Pamela Wasserstein go behind the deal
Behind the scenes of the Brett Kavanaugh investigation with NYT's Kate Kelly
Craiglist's Craig Newmark is using his power and money to save journalism
How Survivor and The Sopranos created Trump, with New York Times critic James Poniewozik
Apple TV+ is coming. Will you pay for it?
The epic battle for Uber, with Mike Isaac from the New York Times
The decline of the right wing troll with CNN’s Oliver Darcy
Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley wants to know where you are
The Sportswriter: The Ringer's Bryan Curtis on the sports-media-politics mash-up
Taylor Lorenz on TikTok, Twitter … and Tumblr
John Harris, co-founder of Politico
Splice's Steve Martocci wants to remake the music business + All things Amazon with Recode's Jason Del Rey
Chuck Klosterman on Trump, Twitter and cancel culture - and his new book
Media mogul watch at Sun Valley with Dylan Byers + Erin Lee Carr on making true crime documentaries
The Texas Tribune’s secret sauce, with Emily Ramshaw
How Roger Ailes built Fox News - and how Gabriel Sherman turned Ailes’ story into a TV show
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’
New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger at the Code Conference
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at the Code Conference
Matthew Ball on Amazon vs Apple vs Netflix vs Disney, and how he built a digital media career by writing for free
ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro on how he’s reshaping the network
YouTube’s Neal Mohan is trying to police the world’s largest video site + Game of Thrones is gone. What’s next?
Eugene Wei explains why we’re all ‘status monkeys’ on social media
Nick Hornby on writing for TV, 10 minutes at a time
Game of Thrones is down to its last dragon + Hulu CEO Randy Freer
Digital media pioneer Jason Hirschhorn on Netflix vs. Everyone Else
Kickstarter’s Perry Chen on 10 years and billions of dollars of crowdfunding
New York Magazine editor David Haskell on taking over after an industry legend
Why Jessi Hempel left a superstar writing career for LinkedIn
Disney enters the streaming wars + AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan
"Savage News" author Jessica Yellin on the dark side (and the silly side) of TV news
Nilay Patel and Peter Kafka talk about Apple's media event
How Brat co-founder Rob Fishman is making TV for the internet's young women
The business of podcasting with Jacob Weisberg, Bethany McLean and Marshall Williams
Brian Stelter, host of CNN's "Reliable Sources"
Alex Gibney, director of HBO's Theranos documentary "The Inventor"
"Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban on investing, sports gambling and how he helped Elon Musk
The New Yorker's Jane Mayer on Fox News and the Trump White House
Overtime CEO Dan Porter on making sports media for Gen Z
J2 Global CEO Vivek Shah on being a serial acquirer of media businesses
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on sports gambling and buying Time Warner
Indie.vc founder Bryce Roberts: Why venture capital doesn't work for everyone
Gimlet co-founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, plus Fortune CEO Alan Murray
Jill Abramson on BuzzFeed layoffs, "Merchants of Truth" and the local news crisis
NYU's Jay Rosen says 2020's political journalism will be even worse than 2016's
Axios business editor Dan Primack on newsletters, IPOs and the economy in 2019
Harvard's Susan Crawford on the importance of fiber internet
Neil Vogel on turning around an aging internet property
Filmmaker Hao Wu and Loretta Chao on streaming culture in China
Lydia Polgreen talks to Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian
The big business of being a social media star
Axios reporter Jonathan Swan talks to Maggie Haberman about reporting on the Trump administration
Former GE and NBC executive Beth Comstock
How Twitch's CEO thinks about tech addiction
Netflix will get ads, predicts The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green
Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?
John Skipper: You’ve heard of ESPN. Now give DAZN a try.
'The Front Runner' director Jason Reitman
Snap VP of Content Nick Bell
NFL Network analyst Maurice Jones-Drew
'The Fairway' author Matt Taibbi
Rival CEO Nathan Hubbard
Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones
'The Big Disruption' author Jessica Powell
The Markup co-founder Julia Angwin
'Big Game' author Mark Leibovich
Business of Fashion editor in chief Imran Amed
'The Land of Steady Habits' director Nicole Holofcener
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Roku CEO Anthony Wood
Substack CEO Chris Best
ThinkProgress founder Judd Legum
Redef CEO Jason Hirschhorn
Digiday editor in chief Brian Morrissey
Discord CEO Jason Citron
Product Hunt CEO Ryan Hoover
'Eighth Grade' director Bo Burnham
'Billions' producer Brian Koppelman
Manoush Zomorodi: Can blockchain save journalism?
Eugene Wei: The invisible ceilings to Snapchat, Facebook and Twitter’s growth
‘The King of Content’ author Keach Hagey explains the Redstone dynasty
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek (Live at Code 2018)
Pod Save America co-host Dan Pfeiffer
Gimlet founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber
AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson (Live at Code 2018)
Momofuku chef David Chang (Live at Code 2018)
Jessica Pressler talks 'lady grifters' + Ken Auletta on the 'frenemies' of the ad business
James Murdoch, CEO of 21st Century Fox (Live at Code 2018)
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Schroepfer (Live at Code 2018)
Roman Mars, host of 99 Percent Invisible: Don't put podcasts behind a paywall
Ezra Klein explains Vox's new Netflix show 'Explained'
YouTube's Lyor Cohen on YouTube Music, Childish Gambino and Kanye West
What people get wrong about Robin Williams’ life — and his death
The Outline CEO Josh Topolsky: Online ads are stuck in the '90s
'Chasing Hillary' author Amy Chozick looks back on a decade of writing about Hillary Clinton
This is how the New York Times reports Pulitzer Prize-winning stories
Our hoax-filled internet, now available as a book (Rex Sorgatz, author, 'The Encyclopedia of Misinformation')
Outside Magazine editor Axie Navas: Yep, we're getting more political.
How Marques 'MKBHD' Brownlee got six million subscribers on YouTube
Financial Times CEO John Ridding: How to make people pay for media
Why every Hollywood movie is a superhero movie
What it's like to be the only woman in a TV writers’ room
Houseparty CEO Ben Rubin on livestreaming and SXSW fame
'Get Out' producer Jason Blum (Live at SXSW)
How to make a hit TV show for Amazon
SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor (Live at Code Media 2018)
Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver (Live at Code Media 2018)
How Lauren Duca became an internet star overnight
Hollywood Reporter part owner Janice Min (Live at Code Media 2018)
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti (Live at Code Media 2018)
Facebook's Adam Mosseri and Campbell Brown (Live at Code Media 2018)
MoviePass sounds too good to be true. Is it?
Paywalls make content better (Nick Thompson, editor in chief, Wired)
How we pivoted from Facebook to Instagram (Dave Finocchio, CEO, Bleacher Report)
NYU’s Jay Rosen, CNN’s Oliver Darcy and BuzzFeed’s Charlie Warzel talk Trump and the media
Digital media companies are headed for a crash (David Carey, president, Hearst Magazines)
Will Trump still dominate the news in 2018?
Kara Swisher reviews the media, 2017 edition
Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir want to make figure skating great again
How Netflix makes a hit (Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank, co-creators, ‘Godless’)
I'm more famous than Anderson Cooper (Cenk Uygur, CEO, The Young Turks)
Andy Weir on 'The Martian,' 'Artemis' and when we'll live on the moon
Hollywood’s sexual harassment story is far from over (Kim Masters, editor-at-large, Hollywood Reporter)
Don't 'lean in,' fight back (Sarah Lacy, author, 'The Uterus Is a Feature, Not a Bug')
How to make a ‘comedy-horror’ TV show (Dana Gould, creator, ‘Stan Against Evil’)
How Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner built and lost a rock and roll empire (Joe Hagan, author, "Sticky Fingers")
NYT's Michael Barbaro explains why you love 'The Daily'
Samantha Bee on Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump (Live)
How blocking ads can save the media industry (Tony Haile, CEO, Scroll)
Jimmy Kimmel on the intersection of comedy and politics
How to start a company when you’re 25 years old (Brit Morin, CEO, Brit + Co)
Sports have always been political (Jason Gay, columnist, Wall Street Journal)
Why podcasts are better than radio (Jad Abumrad, co-host, Radiolab)
When is the internet going to change TV ads? (Dave Morgan, CEO, Simulmedia)
Why Ken Burns won't leave PBS for HBO
How to pay for serious journalism (Clara Jeffery, editor in chief, Mother Jones)
How to compete against Google and Facebook: Go around them! (Tim Armstrong, CEO, Oath)
A guided tour of the pro-Trump media (Oliver Darcy, CNN; Charlie Warzel, BuzzFeed)
Chuck Klosterman talks about Nazis, Taylor Swift and the future of journalism
Patreon will help fans pay artists more than $140 million this year (Jack Conte, CEO, Patreon)
Everyone still wants to be on TV (Tonia O'Connor, chief revenue officer, Univision)
How food became cool (Larry Fitzgibbon, CEO, Tastemade; Helen Rosner, editor at large, Eater)
How to make a bestseller that lasts (Ryan Holiday, author, 'Perennial Seller')
Shari Redstone, Vice Chair, Viacom (Code Conference 2017)
Podcasting is growing up (Nick Quah, founder, Hot Pod)
Why Hillary Clinton won't admit that she made mistakes (Rebecca Traister, writer at large, New York Magazine)
What Peter Thiel’s war against Gawker can tell us about Trump (Brian Knappenberger, director, "Nobody Speak")
Dean Baquet, Executive Editor, The New York Times (Code Conference 2017)
Meet the Wall Street analyst the big media companies love to hate (Rich Greenfield, analyst, BTIG)
Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix (Code Conference 2017)
BuzzFeed chairman and HuffPost co-founder Ken Lerer on the future of media
'Better Call Saul' actor Michael McKean doesn't care how you watch
Why this four-hour Grateful Dead documentary took 14 years to make (Amir Bar-Lev, director, 'Long Strange Trip')
Information doesn't have to be free (Jessica Lessin, CEO, The Information)
W. Kamau Bell talks about Trump, racism and podcasting
Tracking a drug boss across the web (Nick Bilton, author, 'American Kingpin')
The New York 'Startup' scene gets a novel (Doree Shafrir, author)
How Neil Gaiman's ‘American Gods’ finally made it to TV
Inside the Trump White House (Mike Allen, co-founder, Axios)
Why TV is different from YouTube (Reza Izad, CEO, Studio71)
Uber investor Jason Calacanis doesn't want to hear your idea
How to be a rock musician in 2017 (Craig Finn, 'We All Want the Same Things')
Glenn Beck doesn't care if he alienates Trump voters (Live at SXSW)
The Huffington Post wants to reach Trump voters (Lydia Polgreen, editor in chief, The Huffington Post)
'Why is this on Mashable?' asks Executive Editor Jessica Coen
Making a superhero movie for adults (Scott Frank, screenwriter, 'Logan')
The New York Times wants to become like Netflix (Gabriel Snyder, journalist)
Here’s the secret to making things popular (Derek Thompson, author, ‘Hit Makers’)
Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget says Trump is pushing 'anti-American' policies
The future of advertising is 'fewer, better ads' (Ian Schafer, CEO, Deep Focus)
How the press can save itself in the age of Trump (Jay Rosen, professor, NYU)
Fox's digital ad guy wants you to use an ad blocker (Joe Marchese, president of advanced advertising, Fox Networks Group)
How to make $11 million by failing (James Altucher, founder, Choose Yourself Media)
Why is there no fake news on LinkedIn? (Daniel Roth, executive editor, LinkedIn)
Kara Swisher: Journalists must be 'tougher on everybody'
Trump will blow up political journalism (Margaret Sullivan, columnist, the Washington Post)
Making viral videos before YouTube (Burnie Burns, co-founder, Rooster Teeth)
Did racism motivate Trump's voters? (Stephen Dubner, co-author, 'Freakonomics')
Trump-related 'terror and hysteria' isn't justified (Ken Kurson, editor-in-chief, Observer)
Musicians who fight Spotify are 'so f-cking dumb' (Bob Lefsetz, author, Lefsetz Letter)
The 'Star Trek' reboot could have naked aliens (Jim Lanzone, CEO, CBS Interactive)
You've outraged the internet? Here's how to apologize. (Bryan Goldberg, CEO, Bustle)
How tech PR works (Brooke Hammerling, founder, Brew Media)
Smosh and ScreenJunkies boss Keith Richman: We're looking into TV
BuzzFeed's video boss Ze Frank on going viral at scale
Ex-Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau: I'm afraid of a 'smarter Trump'
Donald Trump is still a 'short-fingered vulgarian' (Kurt Andersen, co-founder, Spy)
Behind the scenes of 'Vice News Tonight' (Josh Tyrangiel, executive vice president, Vice)
Keith Olbermann: Covering Donald Trump is like covering a tsunami every day
"Call Your Girlfriend" co-host Aminatou Sow on how to make a hit podcast
Skip Bayless: Why I left ESPN for Fox Sports 1
CNN's Brian Stelter: No, CNN is not biased for Trump
Gigaom founder Om Malik on the virtues of a heart attack
The New York Times has to think like a tech startup (Sam Dolnick and Clifford Levy, editors, New York Times)
Skift CEO Rafat Ali: Small media companies are beautiful
Gawker wasn't always mean (Elizabeth Spiers, founding editor, Gawker.com)
James Andrew Miller examines Hollywood's top agents in 'Powerhouse'
We're not startup bros anymore (Ilan Zechory and Tom Lehman, co-founders, Genius)
So, you’ve been shamed by Twitter (Virginia Heffernan, author, "Magic and Loss")
Gary Vaynerchuk can't wait for the startup armageddon
Donald Trump is bad for democracy (Jacob Weisberg, chairman, Slate Group)
Documentarian Alex Gibney says the Stuxnet virus was a "new kind of weapon"
Daring Fireball's John Gruber: "I'm a writer first and a businessman second"
Steve Jobs "literally caught me with my pants down" (Brian Lam, founder, The Wirecutter)
Malcolm Gladwell wants to make you cry
The Ringer editor Sean Fennessey on ending Grantland, starting again
"Warcraft" director Duncan Jones: Don't watch this movie on an iPhone
You have to fight robots to see Beyoncé (Michael Rapino, CEO, Live Nation)
How email saved Jason Hirschhorn's life
Samantha Bee says hiring more women = better comedy
Why Larry Wilmore used the N-word at the White House Correspondents' Dinner
The NYT's Jenna Wortham just wants to "write about people who look like me”
"Veep" Producer Frank Rich: Trump Can Win
Snapchat Should Start Paying Its Users (Hunter Walk, Investor, Homebrew)
From Fake Steve Jobs to HBO's "Silicon Valley" (Dan Lyons, Author, "Disrupted")
Millennials Aren't an Alien Species (Philippe von Borries, co-CEO, Refinery29)
Can Donald Trump Be Stopped? (Nate Silver, Founder, FiveThirtyEight)
Digital Brands Are a "Sh*t-Ton of Work" (Troy Young, President, Hearst Magazines Digital)
Peter Gould, Co-Creator, "Better Call Saul"
Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, theSkimm Co-Founders
Adrian Wojnarowski, Editor of The Vertical
David Remnick, The New Yorker Editor
Andrew Jarecki, "The Jinx" Director
Chet Kanojia, Starry CEO
Nick Denton, Gawker Media Founder, and Jason Epstein, Investor
Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed Executive Editor of News
Chris Altchek, Mic CEO
Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures Partner
Rufus Griscom, Heleo CEO
Ev Williams, Medium CEO
Katie Nolan, Fox Sports TV Host
Brian Rolapp, NFL Media Czar