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"We’re in a Race Against Time," Joe Kahn on Running the New York Times in the Age of AI Slop

July 08, 2026 3:00am 1:04

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 that power is for — and why he thinks the Times’ next big transformation is vid...

Encore: Inside Joe Weisenthal's brain

July 01, 2026 3:00am 58 min

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'll be back with a new conversation on July 8. If Joe Weisenthal didn’t exist, the...

The Ad Industry's Weirdest Tradition

June 24, 2026 3:00am 29 min

The Rebooting's Brian Morrissey joins me from Cannes, where OpenAI is pitching advertisers, creators are becoming media brands, and thousands of people are still flying across the Atlantic to meet with people they could ...

A Hollywood Manager Explains the New Rules of Show Biz

June 17, 2026 3:00am 53 min

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 problem: Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney and everyone else wanted endless stuff. Top ta...

Brian Stelter on the 60 Minutes Mess; Nilay Patel on Apple’s AI Problem

June 10, 2026 3:00am 1:06

Brian Stelter and Nilay Patel are both covering big, powerful institutions that are undergoing real change, whether they like it or not. Stelter, CNN’s chief media analyst, joins me to talk about the mess at CBS News and...

How Dhar Mann Turned After-School Specials Into A Billion-View Business

June 03, 2026 3:00am 37 min

Dhar Mann’s videos look simple, because they are simple: Someone acts badly, someone learns a lesson, everyone gets a moral by the end. You don’t have to be a kid to enjoy these, but it helps.The business behind them is ...

Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour Explains Why Boring Data Is a Great Media Business

May 27, 2026 3:00am 46 min

I think of Dow Jones as The Wall Street Journal, because that’s the part I know — and the part I used to work near/around/inside. But Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour has built a much bigger business around the Journal: risk a...

Vox Media's Jim Bankoff Explains Why He's Selling to James Murdoch

May 20, 2026 3:18pm 28 min

Jim Bankoff has spent nearly 20 years building Vox Media. Now he’s selling a big chunk of it to James Murdoch, who is acquiring Vox Media's Podcast Network - the same one that produces this podcast - along with New York ...

Versant CEO Mark Lazarus is Running a Post-Cable Cable Company

May 20, 2026 3:00am 40 min

Versant is the new company Comcast created when it spun off CNBC, MS NOW, USA and other cable networks it no longer wanted inside the mothership. That makes Mark Lazarus’ job pretty simple to describe and very hard to do...

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

May 13, 2026 3:00am 53 min

Roger Lynch has spent the last seven years trying to turn Condé Nast from a magazine company into a profitable portfolio of global brands. Now he has a new set of problems: Google traffic is disappearing, AI companies wa...

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

May 06, 2026 3:00am 1:04

The internet is in its let-it-rip era: more AI slop, more video, more clips — and very little in the way of guardrails or rules. Charlie Warzel, who writes and hosts Galaxy Brain for The Atlantic, joins me to talk about ...

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

April 29, 2026 3:00am 53 min

Learn to code, they told us. Then the computers went and learned to code. Now anyone can do it, in theory, courtesy of Claude Code and other vibe coding apps. Tech people I talk to are very, very excited about this. But ...

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

April 22, 2026 3:00am 27 min

Jason Blum built one of Hollywood’s smartest businesses: make low-budget horror movies, give filmmakers room, pay talent on the back end, and let the hits carry the misses. It worked so well that it became a Harvard Busi...

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

April 13, 2026 8:46am 46 min

Sam Altman has spent years presenting himself as the face of AI: The guy warning that the technology could change everything, and the guy insisting that he should be the one to build it. Now we are facing some overdue qu...

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

April 08, 2026 3:00am 41 min

Jonathan Glatzer has written for shows like Succession and Better Call Saul. Now he’s got his own: The Audacity, a new AMC drama set in Silicon Valley.So why make a Silicon Valley show right now — and what, exactly, is h...

Why We Need to Pay Attention to Elon Musk Again

April 01, 2026 3:00am 50 min

Elon Musk has spent the last year being quieter than usual — by Elon Musk standards.That may be about to change in a very big way, as his SpaceX moves toward what could be one of the biggest IPOs in history. So what, exa...

Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet

March 25, 2026 3:00am 45 min

Prediction markets are suddenly everywhere: in sports, in politics, in the media business — and, depending on who you ask, they’re either a useful forecasting tool or just gambling with better branding. So what changed? ...

How to Survive without Google: People Inc's Playbook

March 18, 2026 4:00am 48 min

Lots of publishers are freaked out about “Google Zero” — the notion that one day, Google will stop sending them any traffic at all. That’s more or less already happened at People Inc., says CEO Neil Vogel. Vogel says Goo...

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

March 11, 2026 3:00am 41 min

Oscar season is supposed to be Hollywood’s lap. It is also, increasingly, a reminder of how shaky things are in Hollywood right now. And this one comes as one of the town’s most prominent players is about to be swallowed...

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

March 04, 2026 3:00am 40 min

The World Cup is coming to the U.S (and Canada, and Mexico) in less than 100 days. Perhaps you’re an American who doesn’t care about soccer, and has given this news zero thought. That won’t be an option when the games ar...

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