NYT CEO Mark Thompson on subscriptions, platforms and internal Slack fights; IAC’s Joey Levin bets on betting.

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Outgoing New York Times CEO Mark Thompson talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka about the eight years he spent transforming the paper from an ad-based business to one supported by subscribers; his views on big tech platforms like Facebook and Google; and the high-profile departure of opinion editor Bari Weiss. And IAC CEO Joey Levin talks about his company’s billion-dollar bet on gambling. Featuring: Mark Thompson, CEO of The New York Times Joey Levin, CEO of IAC 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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1:41.8	Sometimes on this podcast we talk to people who make media and sometimes
1:44.9	we talk to people who run big media companies. Today is one of those conversations. It's a long chat
1:49.9	with Mark Thompson, who is the CEO of the New York Times for a couple more weeks. Thompson got there
1:55.8	in 2012 and the paper has really flourished since then and we talked about what he's done to make that happen.
2:01.8	A lot of you know the short answer is subscriptions.
2:04.2	But we talk a lot about sort of the mechanics of making the times a better sort of subscription business.
2:11.2	What goes into making that happen?
2:13.2	There's also a brief discussion of Barry Weiss's departure from the New York Times.
2:18.4	And what is and isn't happening surrounding that.
2:20.7	That's a pretty quick chunk of the conversation, but it's in there, if you're so inclined.
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