Netflix in Turmoil + Derek Thompson on AI & The Antisocial Century
It feels like 2022 all over again: Netflix has hit a wall, and is scrambling to respond. That means layoffs, a purge of its top content peop...
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Recode Media with Peter Kafka
Listen to the future of media, today. Re/code’s senior editor Peter Kafka talks to the most interesting people in media and technology, to find out what happens when those two things collide...
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20 of 605 episodesHow to Run a Political Campaign in the TikTok Era (And How Not To)
Most of us stopped watching traditional TV a long time ago. Political campaigns, meanwhile, still spend most of their ad money there.Rob Fla...
Larry Ellison’s Media Ambitions & Kevin Roose on AI’s Biggest Gamble
Larry Ellison bought his son a media empire. What does he want from it? Vanity Fair’s Tom Dotan joins me to talk about the billionaire behin...
David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next
David Ellison has won Warner Bros. Discovery. Now he has to figure out what, exactly, to do with it. LightShed analyst Rich Greenfield joins...
Meta's New $1300 Glasses and the Fight to Control AI
I went to Meta’s Silicon Valley headquarters to try Mark Zuckerberg’s newest face computer: a $1,300 pair of virtual-reality glasses that ar...
AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?
AI companies have spent years telling us that we’ll be able to use them to go shopping for us, or book us airplane tickets, or get us awesom...
The Atlantic’s CEO on AI, Billionaire Owners, and Moonlighting as a Creator
Nicholas Thompson runs one of the few media companies that can say things are going pretty well: The Atlantic is profitable, growing, and bo...
Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
Not long ago, most Americans had never heard of data centers. Now most Americans are actively opposed to them.It’s a head-snapping change —...
The Weird, Big Business of Microdramas
Microdramas are the new phone-first soap operas: stories chopped into dozens of one-minute episodes: Low-budget productions filled with roma...
The $12.5 Billion Lakers, the NFL’s TV Fight, and Sports Media’s Big Split
Sports teams keep selling for more money because, in theory, their media rights keep becoming more valuable. But the companies that actually...
Joanna Stern on the New Siri, OpenAI’s Weird Gadget, and Life After the Wall Street Journal
Joanna Stern spent more than a decade explaining technology to Wall Street Journal readers. Now she’s doing it on her own — with a new media...
Oliver Darcy on Status, Bari Weiss, and Why Media Reporters Are Too Soft
Two years ago, Oliver Darcy left CNN and launched Status, a paid newsletter focused on the media business. The basic bet was that readers wo...
Lucas Shaw on Warner Bros' Limbo, Netflix's Anxiety, and Hollywood’s Sort-of Comeback
When I last talked to Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw, Netflix was buying Warner Bros. Discovery. Six months later, Paramount has the deal — but, sur...
Substack Wants To Become A Social Network; Beehiiv Wants To Stay Invisible
You are a normal person, so if you think about “people writing their own newsletters” you probably think: “Substack”. But just as Xerox isn’...
Inside Podcasting’s Fight Over Netflix, YouTube, and Creator Control
Chris Balfe is the CEO of Red Seat Ventures, the company behind some of the biggest names in podcasting, including Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carls...
"We’re in a Race Against Time," Joe Kahn on Running the New York Times in the Age of AI Slop
Joe Kahn runs the New York Times newsroom, which means he runs the most powerful news operation in the world. He joins me to talk about what...
Encore: Inside Joe Weisenthal's brain
We originally published this interview with Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal on Feb. 11, 2026, and it's one of my favorite chats of the year. We'l...
The Ad Industry's Weirdest Tradition
The Rebooting's Brian Morrissey joins me from Cannes, where OpenAI is pitching advertisers, creators are becoming media brands, and thousand...
A Hollywood Manager Explains the New Rules of Show Biz
Today’s show is about money, and how to make it in entertainment. The streaming boom made Hollywood feel like it had solved its money proble...
Brian Stelter on the 60 Minutes Mess; Nilay Patel on Apple’s AI Problem
Brian Stelter and Nilay Patel are both covering big, powerful institutions that are undergoing real change, whether they like it or not. Ste...