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Channels with Peter Kafka

BuzzFeed News' Ben Smith on covering Trump and making money

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Buzzfeed News Editor-In-Chief, Ben Smith sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka at the Texas Tribune Festival to discuss how Buzzfeed News went from fledgling news organization to breaking major news stories in the Trump era. They also explore how Buzzfeed's newsroom is testing out new journalism tactics like text messaging to communicate with the 2020 presidential candidates and more. Want to attend Code Media in Los Angeles, CA from November 18th-19th? Click here to register. Featuring: Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen),  Editor-In-Chief of Buzzfeed News Host: Peter Kafka  (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:14.2

And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.

1:19.6

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1:23.7

From the TVs to the AI gadgets to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might

1:28.5

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1:31.3

All that and much more on the Vergecast wherever you get podcasts.

1:38.0

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka.

1:40.3

That is me talking to you in New York.

1:42.4

But quickly, we're going to go back in time to

1:44.5

Austin, Texas, where I talked to Ben Smith at BuzzFeed. There's a lot of stuff we talked about that was in the news then. Still in the news now, you're going to like it. But before we go there, one quick note, if this is the kind of interview you like hearing, and you do because you're listening to this podcast you will want to join me at code media

2:01.3

November 18th and 19th in hollywood we're going to talk to people just like ben smith people who

2:06.8

run big important media and tech organizations uh who do we have there john stanky runs warner

2:12.8

media you've heard of that nancy duke runs vice roger lynch runs Kande Nast, Carolyn Everson runs Revenue for Facebook.

2:20.3

If you're interested in media and tech, if you're listening to this podcast, this is the kind of thing you want to check out.

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