New York Times CEO Meredith Levien on the future of news, and her newspaper

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

The New York Times has a thriving subscription business, award-winning journalism - and a staff that increasingly turns to Twitter and Slack to express its dissatisfaction. CEO Meredith Kopit Levien talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about managing all of that. This interview was recorded at Digital Content Next’s virtual summit. Featuring: Meredith Levien (@meredith_levien), CEO at The New York Times 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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	In today's fast-changing digital world, proving your company is trustworthy isn't just important for growth, it's essential.
0:08.8	That's why Vanta is here. Vanta helps companies of all sizes get compliant fast and stay that way, with industry-leading AI, automation and continuous monitoring.
0:20.3	So whether you're a startup tackling your first
0:22.8	SOC 2 or ISO-27-001 or an enterprise managing vendor risk, Vanta's trust management platform makes it
0:31.8	quicker, easier and more scalable. The results? According to a recent IDC study, Vanta customers slash over
0:40.4	$500,000 a year in costs and are three times more productive. Establishing trust isn't optional.
0:48.7	Vanta makes it automatic. Visit vanta.com slash Voxpod to sign up for a free demo today.
0:56.3	That's v-a-n-ta.com slash voxpod.
1:04.7	Every year, hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world flock to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.
1:13.6	And they spend a week trying to sell each other on the weirdest gadgets you've ever seen in your entire life.
1:18.6	This week on the Vergecast, we're talking all about everything happening at CES, from the TVs to the AI gadgets, to the humanoid robots that everybody is hoping might someday do your laundry and wash your dishes.
1:30.9	All that and much more on the Vergecast wherever you get podcasts.
1:37.4	Welcome to Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. And today we've got an interview with the New York Times CEO Meredith Cope at
1:44.3	Levian. She's a fast rising star. It's been on at the times for a few years now. I started as
1:49.2	C-O-O-O. You remember that we also talked to her predecessor, Mark Thompson, as part of his exit
1:54.3	tour last fall. A couple programming notes. I interviewed Levian as part of a conference
1:59.3	hosted by Digital Content Next.
2:01.7	That's a trade group of digital publishers. That includes my employer, Vox Media. And you will hear
2:06.4	me asking Levian some questions sent to her by other digital publishing execs at the end of our chat.
2:12.2	More important is the fact that I taped this interview with Levian around noon on Friday, February 5th.
2:17.2	And that is relevant
2:18.1	because at the end of that day, the Times announced that Don McNeill Jr., who had been the Times star
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Vox Media Podcast Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Vox Media Podcast Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.