Is Spotify’s Joe Rogan problem over? Plus how to launch a new media startup.

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

First: Neil Young quit Spotify over Joe Rogan, but just a handful of musicians have followed him. Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw assesses whether Spotify’s podcast problems are over, or just beginning. Then, Recode’s Peter Kafka talks to two journalists who left their jobs to start their own media organizations. Lauren Williams was Vox’s editor-in-chief — this week she co-launched Capital B, a nonprofit news site aimed at Black readers. Brian Morrissey was editor-in-chief at Digiday and is now running The Rebooting - a one-man operation aimed at a business audience. Both of them talk about business models, the risk and reward of building something from scratch, and what success looks like when you’re starting out on your own. Featuring: Lucas Shaw (@Lucas_Shaw), Reporter for Bloomberg Lauren Williams (@laurenwilliams), Co-Founder and CEO of Capital B Brian Morrissey (@bmorrissey), Founder of The Rebooting 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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0:59.2	slash voxpod this is recode video peter kofka and that is me and we have had a busy week
1:10.7	media news and this podcast is going
1:13.0	to address some of that media news, specifically the ongoing, surprisingly ongoing, Joe Rook
1:19.4	and Neil Young, Spotify controversy, and crucially why other musicians have not followed Neil Young's footsteps.
1:25.5	So for that one, we brought in Bloomberg's excellent Lucas Shaw, I'd have a quick conversation about what's happening, what's not happening,
1:32.0	and sort of where we go from here. If you want to hear more about what I think about Spotify
1:36.4	and Neil Young and Joe Rogan, I wrote about it for free on Vox.com. You can see that anytime
1:41.6	you want. I think that story still holds up pretty well, if I say so myself.
1:46.6	A story we're not going to cover this week is Jeff Zucker's surprising forced resignation from CNN.
1:53.5	That's shortly before CNN launches its own streaming service and in the run-up to CNN's parent company, WarnerMedia, going from AT&T to Discovery.
2:01.1	It's a very big deal, but any guest we would have on today is reporting that story or is not answering our calls because they don't want to be part of the story.
2:10.1	But I'm sure we're going to come back to it one way or another.
2:14.7	And then we're very much talking about something.
2:16.5	It's not newsy, but it's in the news.
2:18.7	It's how to run a new media company in 2022 with two people who are taking very different
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