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Eli Pariser wants to build a better Facebook Dec 03, 2020

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Nearly 10 years ago, Eli Pariser coined the term “filter bubble” — the idea that Facebook and other platforms limit our view of the world through software choices. Now he wants to create new, non-profit and localized versions of Facebook to help restore our fragmented communities. He talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about his plans.

Featuring: Eli Pariser (@elipariser), Co-Founder of New Public by Civic Signals

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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Gimlet’s Lydia Polgreen wants to shake up podcasting Nov 25, 2020

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Spotify is making a huge push into podcasting. Lydia Polgreen is helping to figure out what means. Gimlet’s head of content sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk about the experimenting she’s done since starting her new job at the beginning at the pandemic - and to share thoughts about her time at HuffPost and the New York Times.

Featuring: Lydia Polgreen (@lpolgreen), Head of content at Gimlet Media

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti explains his HuffPost deal Nov 20, 2020

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Jonah Peretti co-founded Huffington Post, then left to start BuzzFeed. Now he’s running both companies. He sits down with Recode Media’s Peter Kafka to explain the logic behind the deal, his ambitions to grow even bigger - and why he says the New York Times can’t be “the paper of record”.

Featuring: Jonah Peretti (@peretti), Founder & CEO of BuzzFeed

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish on Paramount+, Pluto TV Nov 19, 2020

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Viacom and CBS merged a year ago. Now their CEO Bob Bakish sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk about the company’s future, and its bets on streaming.

Featuring: Bob Bakish, CEO of ViacomCBS

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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Fox and the New York Times face the end of the Trump era Nov 12, 2020

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New York Magazine’s Reeves Wiedeman sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to discuss the messy internal workings of The New York Times, which changed dramatically during the Trump presidency. Then NPR’s David Folkenflik details how Fox News and Rupert Murdoch covered the election and Trump’s refusal to concede, and that means for the Biden presidency.

Featuring: Reeves Wiedeman(@reeveswiedeman), Contributing Editor for New York Magazine

David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik), Media Correspondent for NPR

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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NY Mag's Olivia Nuzzi takes us inside Trumpworld, post Election Day Nov 05, 2020

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Washington correspondent for New York Mag, Olivia Nuzzi, sits down with Recode's Peter Kafka to tell us what she’s hearing and seeing after the election, what she saw before the election, what really happened to her on Air Force 2, and why she livestreamed with Roger Stone on election night.

Featuring: Olivia Nuzzi (@olivianuzzi), Washington Correspondent for New York Magazine

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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Election 2020: What happens next? Nov 04, 2020

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Vox senior correspondent Matt Yglesias drops by to unpack a wild election night. What just happened? What do we think will happen next? Why were the polls wrong - again? What could the media have done better? And what do the next four years look like for politics and political media?

Featuring: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Vox Senior Correspondent, host of The Weeds

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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Why Zeynep Tufekci saw the pandemic coming - and what else she knows Oct 29, 2020

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Zeynep Tufekci is an academic and writes for the Atlantic. She’s not an epidemiologist. So how did she see the pandemic coming before most everyone else? Tufekci sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to talk about experts, expertise, the problem the media has with communicating risk - and why she’s starting her own newsletter, too.

Featuring:Zeyneep Tufekci (@zeynep), sociologist and writer for The Atlantic

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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Google vs The U.S. Government Oct 22, 2020

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The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Google, in the biggest tech antitrust case in two decades. New York Times’ Dai Wakabayashi joins Recode’s Peter Kafka to break downs the details and politics behind the suit, and what it may mean for the search giant’s future.

Featuring: Dai Wakabayashi (@daiwaka), New York Times Tech Reporter

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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ESPN’s Pablo Torre on balancing sports and politics Oct 15, 2020

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Host of ESPN Daily, Pablo Torre, sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to discuss the odd sports + politics + pandemic moment we’re in; he also talks about why he’s a sports journalist and not lawyer, and what it’s like to be a rare sight on TV.

Morning Brew, the business newsletter publisher for millennials, is in talks to sell itself to Business Insider

Featuring: Pablo Torre (@PabloTorre) TV Personality and host of ESPN Daily

Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode

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