Ozy Media, RIP with NYT’s Ben Smith + Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on remaking a magazine giant

Channels with Peter Kafka

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Five days after the New York Times’ Ben Smith wrote an astonishing piece about the fakery supporting Ozy Media, the digital publisher announced it was shutting down. What, if anything, does the fiasco tell us about media startups and investors? Smith teases it out with Recode’s Peter Kafka. Then Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch drops by for a progress report on his attempt to turn the magazine giant into a modern entertainment company - and an update on Apple’s News+ service. Featuring: Ben Smith (@benyt), Media Columnist for The New York Times Roger Lynch (@rogerlynch), CEO of Condé Nast 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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1:05.6	This is Recode Media, Peter Kafka.
1:07.9	That is me.
1:09.2	And as often happens these days,
1:10.7	I have more than more
1:11.3	interview in this podcast for you for the same low, low price of free. First, I've got Ben Smith
1:17.6	from the New York Times talking about Aussie media, of course. I didn't do a long explanation
1:22.5	about what Aussie media was because I think that anyone listening to this podcast knows about it
1:27.0	at this point has read one of the dozens of articles hundreds thousands of articles ben smith wrote about it
1:31.5	it's a good story and then I also talk to Roger Lynch who is the CEO of Kande and asked another
1:37.0	company everyone who listens to this podcast has heard of as you guys know Kande is in a year's long
1:43.7	effort to sort of retool itself from
1:45.8	giant influential magazine publisher into something else. It's a work in progress. And we
1:51.9	had a long conversation about that. I think you will enjoy it. So here's me and Ben Smith.
1:58.4	I am here with the New York Times, Ben Smith. He's been busy. Welcome, Ben.
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