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How to make it in the creator economy with Rob Walker

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Rob Walker sits down with Recode’s Peter Kafka to discuss why he decided to go the independent route instead of writing for another publication after his buyout from Medium, his thoughts on the creator economy, and details behind his newsletter The Art of Noticing, based on his 2019 book of the same name. Featuring: Rob Walker (@notrobwalker), Journalist and Author 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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welcome to recode media of peter kofka that is me and this week I'm talking to Rob Walker, who as I discussed in this

1:12.5

interview as someone who I've admired and looked up to for like two decades. He's a writer for a lot

1:18.5

of different places. Most recently, he was working on a medium publication. And now like everyone

1:22.5

else, he's got his own substack. And we talk about all of that. And it's partly a chance for

1:26.7

Rob to talk about his work and partly for him and I to talk about what it's like to be an actual creator in the creator economy

1:34.3

Which is a phrase we're using a lot hearing a lot of these days and I'm not sure it always means the same thing

1:40.8

So I wanted to hear Rob talk about that so So we did that. And as an aside,

1:47.2

I was thinking earlier this week that I would spend some time today talking about Naomi Osaka,

1:53.0

the tennis player who pulled out of the French Open because she didn't want to do press

1:57.0

conference because she said it was difficult for her mental health. And I had a hot

2:02.6

take about that and I spent some time tweeting about it. And then by the time I got time to record

2:07.9

this today, I thought, I don't need to talk about Naomi Osaka now. You could read Jason Gay's

2:12.5

excellent column, The Waltry Journal about her. And there's no need for me to talk about the thing that everybody was talking

2:18.5

about a day ago, which is kind of one of the things Rob and I talk about in this discussion as well.

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