Media Merger Mania with Axios’ Dan Primack and WSJ’s Ben Mullin

Channels with Peter Kafka

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Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Why is every digital media company talking about a SPAC? Why now? And what, exactly is a SPAC? Axios’ Dan Primack and WSJ’s Ben Mullin talk to Recode’s Peter Kafka about the wave of deal-making, what it means, and how long it will last. Featuring: Dan Primack (@danprimack), Business Editor at Axios Ben Mullin (@BenMullin), Media Reporter at The Wall Street Journal 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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1:39.2	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me.
1:46.0	Today we're going to talk about money and maybe some mergers with two really good merger reporters.
1:49.6	Dan Premack from Axios, Ben Mullen from Wall Street Journal.
1:55.4	Before we get started on this conversation, I just want to share an email that Ben wrote to me.
2:04.4	In 2017, he was working at Pointer. He was an admirer of my journalism, and he was looking how to, he was trying to figure out how to break into the NYC media world. And this is where
2:09.3	I've been telling the story for a while, and I've always thought that I was, I discouraged,
2:13.3	uh, I always thought that I encouraged Ben to come to New York, but it turns out I did not do that.
2:20.3	My response to him was, do you really want to cover media?
2:23.3	There are a lot of people covering media, lots of other stuff to write about where you'd have the field to yourself.
2:30.3	So that was my advice to Ben, and luckily for Ben and everyone else, he did not follow it.
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