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Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on AI, the Met Gala and His Secret Succession Plan

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The Internet’s Let-It-Rip Era, With The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel

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AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford

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Jason Blum Built a Hit-Making Movie Machine. Does It Still Work?

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Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Sam Altman’s Trust Problem

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What Happens When a “Succession” Writer Takes on Silicon Valley

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Why We Need to Pay Attention to Elon Musk Again

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Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet

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How to Survive without Google: People Inc's Playbook

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Matt Belloni on the Oscars, the Ellisons, and Hollywood’s Next Chapter

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The World’s Cup Is Coming to Trump’s America, with Roger Bennett

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Netflix Walks, Paramount Wins, and the Ellisons Take Hollywood

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Brian Stelter on the Trump Media Shakedown Era

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Janice Min on Hollywood’s Crisis; Reed Duchscher on the Creator Boom

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How Odd Lots' Joe Weisenthal Turned Curiosity Into a Career, and a Hit Podcast

16

Jeff Bezos Used To Be In Love with The Washington Post. What Happened?

17

Who is Josh D'Amaro and Why is He Disney's New CEO?

18

Running a Newsroom in Minneapolis + How to Make a Game of Thrones For Less

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Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Owns TV (and Why It Won’t Forever)

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How to Build a Profitable Media Company in 3 years, with Semafor’s Justin Smith

21

Inside Bari Weiss’s Rise: LA, Sun Valley, and the Mogul Network

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Craig Finn on Friendship, Fans and The Hold Steady’s Second Life

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Podcast Pioneer PJ Vogt’s Second Act: Less Budget, More Control

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"Neither Side Is Used to Losing." Lucas Shaw on What’s Next for Netflix and Paramount in the Battle for Warner Bros.

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Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He’s a Must-Read Media Gossip.

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"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw

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PBS Lost a Billion Dollars. Now what? With CEO Paula Kerger

28

What Happens To Media When The Web Goes Away, with Tony Haile

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Kevin Reilly got to the top of the TV heap. Now he's in AI.

30

What the Disney–YouTube Battle Tells Us About the End of Cable

31

The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell on Why Republicans Won the Attention War

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The Man Who Fixed The New York Times Wants to Fix CNN

33

The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next

34

The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust

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Why the Guardian Doesn't Need a Billionaire to Thrive

36

Almost Everyone is Taking Money from OpenAI. Why is Ziff Davis suing them?

37

The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment

38

I tried Zuckerberg's $800 Ray-Bans. Are they the future? With Alex Heath

39

How TBPN Made a Tech News Splash

40

Patch’s AI Experiment: Thousands of Newsletters, Zero Humans

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Oliver Darcy Thinks the Media Doesn’t Get It. So He Built Status

42

Why Henry Blodget is Building Another Media Company

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ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro on streaming, the NFL and sports betting

44

A Busy - and Expensive - Summer for AI, with NYT's Mike Isaac

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Why the Algorithm is Making Comedy Boom, Again

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What is TV’s endgame?

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Why Trump is defunding NPR and PBS - and suing Rupert Murdoch

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Inside the Rise and Fall of Condé Nast with Michael Grynbaum

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Inside the NYT - and Everywhere Else - with Semafor's Max Tani

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Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker on the problem with tech - and people

51

How to become a Substack Star with Emily Sundberg

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Why did Apple ice out the most famous Apple blogger?

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On the hunt for media optimism, with Semafor’s Ben Smith and The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey

54

Scott Frank on Netflix, the future of Hollywood, and Dept. Q

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Bluesky Wasn’t Supposed to be a Twitter Rival. Now It Is.

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How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired’s Katie Drummond

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Meta's Adam Mosseri explains how Instagram really works - and how he wants to build Threads

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How Apple trapped itself in China

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Ian Rogers tells me I need a crypto wallet

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How to fight Apple and (maybe) win, with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney

61

Tariffs, Trump, TikTok: What’s going to happen to ads in 2025?

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Roblox CEO David Baszucki knows what your kids are doing.

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How to make money in Washington, with Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman

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NYT publisher AG Sulzberger on Trump, OpenAi and the economy

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Trump vs The Media, Round 2, with Sara Fischer

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How long can sports keep TV alive?

67

Inside PJ Vogt’s low budget, super successful podcast

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Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants to hang on to the live-streaming crown

69

Matt Belloni: what the Oscars tell us about Hollywood

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Free speech is under attack

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Matthew Ball: Why the games business is broken

72

BuzzFeed wants to build a… social network?

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Why Michael Lewis is worried about the sports betting boom

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How Silicon Valley really feels about Trump, TikTok and DeepSeek

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How TikTok (still) works

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How does Wall Street think about Trump, media and tech?

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Why Katie Notopoulos still loves the internet

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Looking back, and ahead, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw

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1440’s newsletters are short, popular and profitable

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Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0

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How to build your own media company - without VCs or billionaires

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Meet the man making money for Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly

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Taylor Lorenz on Joe Rogan, Joe Biden and goodbye to big media.

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Elon Musk funds Trump — and owns Twitter. What does that mean?

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Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett wants to win an election and make money

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Emma Tucker brought fresh eyes to the Wall Street Journal

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Tubi CEO Anjali Sud says you can’t beat free

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Behind the scenes of the Trump movie you almost never saw

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Matt Yglesias on the election, Substack success and the great unbundling

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I tried Orion, Mark Zuckerberg's $10k face computer

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YouTube CEO Neal Mohan wants to share the wealth

92

How David Remnick remade the New Yorker

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Welcome to Channels with Peter Kafka

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That’s a wrap (for now)

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Sam Altman’s back at OpenAI. What’s next?

96

What just happened to OpenAI?

97

Why so, Sirius?

98

No seriously. What’s the future of Disney? And why did Fox News fire Tucker Carlson?

99

Land of the Giants: What We All Got Wrong About Twitter

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How Dropout found success streaming comedy for $6 a month

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Inside the New York Times’ controversial Gaza headline

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How the Washington Post is covering the Israel-Hamas War

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The rise and (maybe) fall of Marvel

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The internet, explained by Taylor Lorenz

105

Warner Music Group’s CEO says AI songs are coming whether you like it or not

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HBO boss Casey Bloys on the strikes, the bundle and AI

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Why did it take 5 months to solve the Writers’ Strike?

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Why did Rupert Murdoch just leave his media empire?

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How Matthew Berry made fake football his real job

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Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Rise and Fall

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The Business of Taylor Swift

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It’s the US vs China with tech in between

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CNN is Mark Thompson’s problem now

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How The Try Guys survived going viral

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Today, Explained: Sound of Freedom is the surprise movie hit of the summer

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Land of the Giants: How Tesla became the Elon Musk Co.

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Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker says tech isn’t our problem - it’s us

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Why Lina Khan is fighting big tech - and losing

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Strikes! AI! And a Steven Soderbergh show he’s selling himself.

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Can Meta Make a Twitter Killer?

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Why ESPN’s old boss made movies you can’t see - yet

122

How to make laughs on TikTok and action on Netflix

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Is Instagram the place to unbreak news?

124

Meet the AI company that wants to remake Hollywood

125

CNN’s CEO is out; Apple reveals its goggles

126

NYT rising star Astead Herndon on podcasts, power, and the 2024 race

127

Meet the media insider who makes Succession feel real

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It’s TV’s biggest week - and TV is on strike

129

Ken Jennings on the future of Jeopardy!

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How worried—or excited—should we be about AI?

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Jonah Peretti, Nick Denton and Ben Smith on digital news’ past and future

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Inside the AI Gold Rush

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AI is the future! AI is a fraud. Let's debate.

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Has Fox News learned a $787 million lesson?

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'Chef Reactions' blew up on TikTok. But will TikTok blow up?

136

Why is a talent agency buying pro wrestling? Plus a green media startup

137

Is Apple sure about Apple’s new Goggles? Plus Roger Bennett, Media Mogul

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Podcast pioneer Jesse Thorn built his own business. Now his employees own it.

139

An SVB (phew!) update + Benedict Evans on the future of (almost) everything

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Science fiction pioneer Neal Stephenson on the metaverse, the movies and why he still believes in blockchain

141

Meet the woman who got De La Soul streaming

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Real-life “Succession”: Jim Stewart on Sumner Redstone’s sordid saga

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We quiz BuzzFeed’s CEO about AI

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Why is tech in trouble if the economy is ok?

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Land of the Giants: The Hidden Hand Behind Your Swipes

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Don't tell investor Li Jin that Web3 is dead

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How The Last of Us went from hit game to hit zombie tv

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"Resist trying to make things better" - a conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos

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Was YouTube’s NFL deal a $2 billion mistake?

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Apple’s new goggles; Hollywood’s new streaming pitch.

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Reader Mail!

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An Elon-free year in review

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A n00b’s guide to the Microsoft / Activision deal the FTC wants to stop

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Why the media landscape is “dire” with WSJ’s Jessica Toonkel

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How Eventbrite survived the pandemic, and why it’s not fighting Ticketmaster

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It’s not TV it’s HBO — the book

157

How to watch a complicated World Cup

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Life, the internet, and everything with Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick

159

What Elon’s past tells us about his present

160

Tech’s big bust, plus Marvel (and Wakanda) Forever?

161

Election special with Punchbowl's Jake Sherman

162

Jason Gay isn’t making Elon Musk jokes

163

Bloomberg’s Matt Levine still loves crypto; Ankler’s Janice Min loves newsletters

164

Ben Smith says Semafor will take 10 years to get right

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Netflix is back (?) + Julia Boorstin on women who lead

166

Inside the curious mind of XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe

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Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Really. (Really?)

168

Interview with Interview with a Vampire’s Eric Bogosian

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YouTube fights TikTok with cash

170

José Andrés has a full plate, but he's adding more

171

The inside story of YouTube

172

Why the Good Fight creators are glad they moved from CBS to streaming

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Algorithms that give you anxiety and a Web3 project that doesn't suck.

174

Home Box Office of the Dragon

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Why the Democrats finally got on TikTok

176

Land of the Giants: Why Instagram Broke Its Square

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B.J. Novak on “Vengeance”, podcasts and the downside of the streaming boom

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What is the metaverse, when is it going to show up and who’s going to run it?

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Ken Auletta on the Harvey Weinstein story he wrote, the story he couldn’t write, and the one he’s publishing now.

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Netflix has a huge hit with Peaky Blinders — and Caryn Mandabach owns it.

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The future of: Crypto criticism; Substack and ABC News

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Is this a Netflix problem or a streaming problem?

183

Bill Simmons on podcasts, celebrity interviews and life at Spotify

184

Why is this VC on your TikTok?

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Engineer Molly White explains why Web3 isn’t going great

186

Is Big Tech getting better about misinformation?

187

What can you learn from the guy who built the iPod?

188

Ronan Farrow: “We are living in a post-privacy age”

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Behind the scenes at Apple with journalist Tripp Mickle

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NYT’s Wesley Morris on writing, podcasting and staying off TikTok

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Can Elon Fix Twitter? Can Reed Fix Netflix?

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Elon and Twitter: A love/hate story

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Disney vs. Itself vs. The Right

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The State of Streaming

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Judd Apatow on The Bubble, TikTok and The Slap

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The Oscars: Hollywood’s smallest biggest night?

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Dan Le Batard on life after ESPN; Russia sanctions upend big-time soccer

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Big Tech takes a side, finally + Zappos' tragic founder

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Covering the war in Ukraine, online and on the ground

200

Uber, but for TV

201

Chuck Klosterman relives the 1990s & Sarah Palin loses her NYT libel suit

202

What's next for CNN? + The Afterparty's Ben Schwartz writes jokes for C-3PO

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Is Spotify’s Joe Rogan problem over? Plus how to launch a new media startup.

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Game on: Behind the sports betting boom

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Gaming out Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal

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So … what the hell is Web3? With the Chernin Group’s Jarrod Dicker

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How the right covers 1/6 + tales from the Theranos trial, with Oliver Darcy and Erin Griffith

208

The Verge’s Ashley Carman on podcasting’s big year

209

What the hell happened in 2021? With Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw.

210

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar’s almost-exit interview

211

BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti has gone public

212

@Jack is leaving Twitter. What now? + Lina Khan’s battle with Big Tech

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Director Rhys Thomas on his unlikely journey from SNL to Disney’s Hawkeye

214

The inside story of HBO, with Jim Miller

215

What is Twitter Blue and is it worth $3?

216

Facebook’s Metaverse explained - by metaverse explainer Matthew Ball. Plus Justin Smith builds a media biz for Bloomb

217

How to cover the Facebook leaks + SNL’s Heidi Gardner

218

Dotdash CEO Neil Vogel on his $2.7 billion Meredith deal

219

Land of the Giants: "He's No Steve Jobs"

220

Ozy Media, RIP with NYT’s Ben Smith + Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on remaking a magazine giant

221

Streamers shrink Hollywood, again + What’s a “Hate Raid”?

222

How Peter Thiel went from Silicon Valley to The White House with Max Chafkin

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Instagram boss Adam Mosseri on teenagers, Tik-Tok and paying creators

224

Big changes at Apple: New phones, new AR glasses, and big app store changes.

225

Defector Media: Life after Deadspin is good (and profitable)

226

OnlyFans’ weird week with MEL’s Magdalene Taylor; BuzzFeed’s Joe Bernstein on the problem with our misinformation problem.

227

WWE’s Nick Khan on pivoting his streaming strategy and getting back in the ring

228

NYT’s Shira Ovide on the everything and nothingness of tech.

229

Reese’s $900 million deal; ScarJo vs Disney with Matt Belloni, + Derek Thompson on how the media covers Delta

230

Director Tom McCarthy on Stillwater, finishing a movie in a pandemic and playing one of the Wire’s best villains

231

Deep fakes come to the movies and Hollywood resets for the streaming era

232

WeWork's rise and fall (and rise again?) with Eliot Brown

233

Kevin Delaney turns the future of work into a media business; plus a Sun Valley update from David Gura.

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Men In Blazers’ Roger Bennett loves soccer and America

235

One of the most popular streamers on Twitch… is a lefty political commentator? Hasan Piker explains

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One of Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors is now a media company, too

237

Jake and Amir on being Web famous, fed up with Hollywood, and podcast bosses

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How to make it in the creator economy with Rob Walker

239

Why is Amazon buying MGM?

240

Jim Miller on HBO’s new home; Alan Yang on a very different season of “Master of None”

241

Why did AT&T just bail on WarnerMedia? And what happens next?

242

Antonio García Martínez's controversial exit from Apple

243

Live music is back! Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino can't wait

244

The Jeff Bezos Empire with Brad Stone & Jason Del Rey

245

Apple vs Epic with John Gruber; Truth, Doubt and History with Jill Lepore

246

AMC Networks can’t compete with Netflix. CEO Josh Sapan is fine with that.

247

Did the pandemic kill the Oscars?

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Apple and Facebook's ambitious audio plans

249

Substack’s next target: Local news

250

How Hollywood and the NBA are betting on NFTs

251

WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on a wild first year on the job

252

Media Merger Mania with Axios’ Dan Primack and WSJ’s Ben Mullin

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The rise and maybe fall of YouTube star David Dobrik; inside Facebook with the Markup’s Julia Angwin

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How Christina “Tinx” Najjar became a TikTok star overnight

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How did - and didn’t - the pandemic transform media?

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Fubo TV is a Reddit meme stock. CEO David Gandler has bigger ambitions.

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Have we hit peak streaming? + NYT’s Kevin Roose on his new book “Futureproof”

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Australia vs. Facebook; Al Madrigal means business about All Things Comedy

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Pandora founder Tim Westergren on the future of streaming

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New York Times CEO Meredith Levien on the future of news, and her newspaper

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How To Make An Influencer In America with Nick Bilton

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Andrew Ross Sorkin on Gamestop, Robinhood, Reddit and how to fix the system.

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How Jessica Lessin got people to pay for The Information

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Trump vs the Press - a final report card from Jay Rosen

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What the Capitol Riot tells us about online power

266

Behind the making of The Dissident, the movie about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder

267

Zach Seward started Quartz, sold it, and bought it back. Now what?

268

Kemp Powers spent years breaking into Hollywood — and his first film is Pixar’s Soul

269

Trump is leaving; Trump media isn't

270

Behind the scenes with Queen’s Gambit creator Scott Frank

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Eli Pariser wants to build a better Facebook

272

Gimlet’s Lydia Polgreen wants to shake up podcasting

273

BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti explains his HuffPost deal

274

ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish on Paramount+, Pluto TV

275

Fox and the New York Times face the end of the Trump era

276

NY Mag's Olivia Nuzzi takes us inside Trumpworld, post Election Day

277

Election 2020: What happens next?

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Why Zeynep Tufekci saw the pandemic coming - and what else she knows

279

Google vs The U.S. Government

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ESPN’s Pablo Torre on balancing sports and politics

281

Congress comes for big tech; Axios thrives in the pandemic

282

Is big media bouncing back from the pandemic?

283

Politico editor Carrie Budoff Brown on the challenge of covering 2020

284

QAnon Explained with NBC's Ben Collins

285

Ben Thompson explains TikTok, Trump and China

286

Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman is building a media brand one newsletter at a time

287

Baratunde Thurston wants to teach us how to be a good citizen

288

NYT’s James Poniewozik on the virtual conventions; CNN’s Brian Stelter on Trump + Fox

289

Why Desus & Mero are pandemic-proof

290

NYT CEO Mark Thompson on subscriptions, platforms and internal Slack fights; IAC’s Joey Levin bets on betting.

291

Kurt Andersen on the “Evil Geniuses” that got America into this mess

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Sports are back! But for how long?

293

Why your favorite writers are taking their talents to Substack. Plus: Peacock!

294

Hank Green on everything YouTube, Tik Tok, podcasting, and Montana

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How to run a newspaper in Hong Kong: South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu

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Why Fox bet $450 million on Tubi and free streaming

297

How Netflix became a streaming giant

298

W. Kamau Bell wants to help you understand racism

299

Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez wants to make the Marvel of podcasts

300

Conferences were a great business — before the pandemic

301

Twitter, Trump, Facebook and George Floyd with NYT’s Charlie Warzel

302

HBO Max is here!

303

Meet the man who made Netflix’s most popular movie

304

Joe Rogan takes his podcast to Spotify

305

It’s Twitch’s Time: Talking live streaming with gamer Dr. Lupo and journalist Bijan Stephen

306

How Tara Reade told her story

307

Michael Jordan's Last Dance, with director Jason Hehir

308

The man behind The Office brings you the future, on Amazon

309

Matthew Ball on how the pandemic will remake TV, movies and video games

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How the Atlantic is thriving in the pandemic

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Jeffrey Katzenberg's $1.75 billion bet on Quibi

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TikTok, Facebook and podcasts respond to the pandemic

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Making people laugh during a pandemic, with Jon Lovett and Jon Gabrus

314

How social media works - and doesn’t — during the pandemic

315

Why the Coronavirus canceled the NBA, with ESPN’s Brian Windhorst

316

How streaming changed comedy with Vulture’s Jesse David Fox

317

ViacomCBS gets into the streaming wars, too. Sort of.

318

Food52’s surprising success story, with co-founders Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs

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Local news is dying. John Thornton wants to save it.

320

Spotify, The Ringer and the future of podcasts

321

How Netflix is changing The Oscars

322

Why Ben Smith is leaving BuzzFeed for the New York Times

323

BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti reboots his business plan

324

NBC’s Peacock enters the Streaming Wars

325

Anna Wiener on disillusionment with startup culture

326

How The Safdie Bros. landed Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems

327

Adam Davidson on how to thrive in this economy

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Streaming wars! (Don’t call them streaming wars!) and everything else we learned in 2019, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw

329

Eat up! Food talk with The Infatuation’s Chris Stang and the New Yorker’s Helen Rosner

330

Vice Media CEO Nancy Dubuc on the internet, TV and her famous founder

331

The anatomy of a hit song, with Switched on Pop’s Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding

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Roger Lynch’s plan to save Condé Nast

333

DAZN's John Skipper and the future of streaming sports

334

The men who want to remake Sports Illustrated: Maven’s James Heckman and Ross Levinsohn

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Carolyn Everson runs the Facebook ad machine

336

John Stankey’s plan for HBO, HBO Max and WarnerMedia

337

Meet the man behind Disney+: Live from Code Media with Kevin Mayer

338

Scott Z. Burns on making movies with Amazon, Netflix & Steven Soderbergh

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Did Disney+ and Apple TV+ live up to the hype?

340

What's next for The New York Times after The Daily?

341

Matt Levine left Goldman to become a journalist. Great move!

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It's not HBO... It's HBO Max. Plus Steve Swartz, CEO of Hearst on turning a magazine publisher into a diversified media company

343

How the Wu-Tang Clan raised Sophia Chang

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Introducing Reset: Can AI Teach You To Write Better?

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How The Athletic CEO Alex Mather convinced people to pay for sports news on the internet

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How Shea Serrano used the internet to become a best-selling author

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BuzzFeed News' Ben Smith on covering Trump and making money

348

Complex CEO Rich Antoniello on running a youth culture media empire

349

Vox Media + NY Media CEOs Jim Bankoff and Pamela Wasserstein go behind the deal

350

Behind the scenes of the Brett Kavanaugh investigation with NYT's Kate Kelly

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Craiglist's Craig Newmark is using his power and money to save journalism

352

How Survivor and The Sopranos created Trump, with New York Times critic James Poniewozik

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Apple TV+ is coming. Will you pay for it?

354

The epic battle for Uber, with Mike Isaac from the New York Times

355

The decline of the right wing troll with CNN’s Oliver Darcy

356

Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley wants to know where you are

357

The Sportswriter: The Ringer's Bryan Curtis on the sports-media-politics mash-up

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Taylor Lorenz on TikTok, Twitter … and Tumblr

359

John Harris, co-founder of Politico

360

Splice's Steve Martocci wants to remake the music business + All things Amazon with Recode's Jason Del Rey

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Chuck Klosterman on Trump, Twitter and cancel culture - and his new book

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Media mogul watch at Sun Valley with Dylan Byers + Erin Lee Carr on making true crime documentaries

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The Texas Tribune’s secret sauce, with Emily Ramshaw

364

How Roger Ailes built Fox News - and how Gabriel Sherman turned Ailes’ story into a TV show

365

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’

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New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger at the Code Conference

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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at the Code Conference

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Matthew Ball on Amazon vs Apple vs Netflix vs Disney, and how he built a digital media career by writing for free

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ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro on how he’s reshaping the network

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YouTube’s Neal Mohan is trying to police the world’s largest video site + Game of Thrones is gone. What’s next?

371

Eugene Wei explains why we’re all ‘status monkeys’ on social media

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Nick Hornby on writing for TV, 10 minutes at a time

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Game of Thrones is down to its last dragon + Hulu CEO Randy Freer

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Digital media pioneer Jason Hirschhorn on Netflix vs. Everyone Else

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Kickstarter’s Perry Chen on 10 years and billions of dollars of crowdfunding

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New York Magazine editor David Haskell on taking over after an industry legend

377

Why Jessi Hempel left a superstar writing career for LinkedIn

378

Disney enters the streaming wars + AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan

379

"Savage News" author Jessica Yellin on the dark side (and the silly side) of TV news

380

Nilay Patel and Peter Kafka talk about Apple's media event

381

How Brat co-founder Rob Fishman is making TV for the internet's young women

382

The business of podcasting with Jacob Weisberg, Bethany McLean and Marshall Williams

383

Brian Stelter, host of CNN's "Reliable Sources"

384

Alex Gibney, director of HBO's Theranos documentary "The Inventor"

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"Shark Tank" star Mark Cuban on investing, sports gambling and how he helped Elon Musk

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The New Yorker's Jane Mayer on Fox News and the Trump White House

387

Overtime CEO Dan Porter on making sports media for Gen Z

388

J2 Global CEO Vivek Shah on being a serial acquirer of media businesses

389

AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson on sports gambling and buying Time Warner

390

Indie.vc founder Bryce Roberts: Why venture capital doesn't work for everyone

391

Gimlet co-founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber, plus Fortune CEO Alan Murray

392

Jill Abramson on BuzzFeed layoffs, "Merchants of Truth" and the local news crisis

393

NYU's Jay Rosen says 2020's political journalism will be even worse than 2016's

394

Axios business editor Dan Primack on newsletters, IPOs and the economy in 2019

395

Harvard's Susan Crawford on the importance of fiber internet

396

Neil Vogel on turning around an aging internet property

397

Filmmaker Hao Wu and Loretta Chao on streaming culture in China

398

Lydia Polgreen talks to Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian

399

The big business of being a social media star

400

Axios reporter Jonathan Swan talks to Maggie Haberman about reporting on the Trump administration

401

Former GE and NBC executive Beth Comstock

402

How Twitch's CEO thinks about tech addiction

403

Netflix will get ads, predicts The Trade Desk CEO Jeff Green

404

Is the Daily Beast the new Gawker?

405

John Skipper: You’ve heard of ESPN. Now give DAZN a try.

406

'The Front Runner' director Jason Reitman

407

Snap VP of Content Nick Bell

408

NFL Network analyst Maurice Jones-Drew

409

'The Fairway' author Matt Taibbi

410

Rival CEO Nathan Hubbard

411

Vanity Fair editor Radhika Jones

412

'The Big Disruption' author Jessica Powell

413

The Markup co-founder Julia Angwin

414

'Big Game' author Mark Leibovich

415

Business of Fashion editor in chief Imran Amed

416

'The Land of Steady Habits' director Nicole Holofcener

417

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey

418

Roku CEO Anthony Wood

419

Substack CEO Chris Best

420

ThinkProgress founder Judd Legum

421

Redef CEO Jason Hirschhorn

422

Digiday editor in chief Brian Morrissey

423

Discord CEO Jason Citron

424

Product Hunt CEO Ryan Hoover

425

'Eighth Grade' director Bo Burnham

426

'Billions' producer Brian Koppelman

427

Manoush Zomorodi: Can blockchain save journalism?

428

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

429

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

430

Spotify CEO Daniel Ek (Live at Code 2018)

431

Pod Save America co-host Dan Pfeiffer

432

Gimlet founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber

433

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

434

Momofuku chef David Chang (Live at Code 2018)

435

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

436

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

437

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

438

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

439

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

440

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

441

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

442

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

443

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

444

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

445

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

446

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

447

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

448

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

449

Why every Hollywood movie is a superhero movie

450

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

451

Houseparty CEO Ben Rubin on livestreaming and SXSW fame

452

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

453

How to make a hit TV show for Amazon

454

SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor (Live at Code Media 2018)

455

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

456

How Lauren Duca became an internet star overnight

457

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

458

BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti (Live at Code Media 2018)

459

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

460

MoviePass sounds too good to be true. Is it?

461

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

462

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

463

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

464

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

465

Will Trump still dominate the news in 2018?

466

Kara Swisher reviews the media, 2017 edition

467

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

468

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

469

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

470

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

471

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

472

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

473

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

474

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

475

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

476

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

477

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

478

Jimmy Kimmel on the intersection of comedy and politics

479

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

480

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

481

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

482

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

483

Why Ken Burns won't leave PBS for HBO

484

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

485

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

486

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

487

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

488

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

489

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

490

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

491

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

492

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

493

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

494

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

495

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

496

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

497

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

498

Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix (Code Conference 2017)

499

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

500

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

501

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

502

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

503

W. Kamau Bell talks about Trump, racism and podcasting

504

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

505

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

506

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

507

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

508

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

509

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

510

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

511

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

512

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

513

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

514

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

515

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

516

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

517

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

518

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

519

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

520

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

521

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

522

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

523

Kara Swisher: Journalists must be 'tougher on everybody'

524

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

525

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

526

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

527

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

528

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

529

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

530

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

531

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

532

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

533

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

534

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

535

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

536

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

537

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

538

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

539

Skip Bayless: Why I left ESPN for Fox Sports 1

540

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

541

Gigaom founder Om Malik on the virtues of a heart attack

542

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

543

Skift CEO Rafat Ali: Small media companies are beautiful

544

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

545

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

546

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

547

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

548

Gary Vaynerchuk can't wait for the startup armageddon

549

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

550

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

551

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

552

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

553

Malcolm Gladwell wants to make you cry

554

The Ringer editor Sean Fennessey on ending Grantland, starting again

555

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

556

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

557

How email saved Jason Hirschhorn's life

558

Samantha Bee says hiring more women = better comedy

559

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

560

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

561

"Veep" Producer Frank Rich: Trump Can Win

562

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

563

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

564

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

565

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

566

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

567

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

568

Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin, theSkimm Co-Founders

569

Adrian Wojnarowski, Editor of The Vertical

570

David Remnick, The New Yorker Editor

571

Andrew Jarecki, "The Jinx" Director

572

Chet Kanojia, Starry CEO

573

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

574

Shani Hilton, BuzzFeed Executive Editor of News

575

Chris Altchek, Mic CEO

576

Albert Wenger, Union Square Ventures Partner

577

Rufus Griscom, Heleo CEO

578

Ev Williams, Medium CEO

579

Katie Nolan, Fox Sports TV Host

580

Brian Rolapp, NFL Media Czar

581

Ricky Van Veen, CollegeHumor Co-Founder