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Channels with Peter Kafka

The men who want to remake Sports Illustrated: Maven’s James Heckman and Ross Levinsohn

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Business News, News, Tv & Film, Technology

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The Maven’s James Heckman and Ross Levinsohn, the new owners of Sports Illustrated talks to Recode’s Peter Kafka at the Code Media conference about their history in digital publishing, and their plans for the iconic magazine. Featuring: James Heckman (@JamesCHeckman) and Ross Levinsohn, of The Maven & Sports Illustrated 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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1:37.0

This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka coming to you from New York City.

1:42.1

I'm going to give you another code media interview from our time in Los Angeles a couple weeks ago.

1:46.6

This one is a little contentious.

1:48.3

It's with Jim Heckman and Ross Levinson, who now runs something called The Maven, which owns Sports Illustrated.

1:55.0

We talked about what they're doing there.

1:56.5

We talked a bit about their past, which we call controversial.

2:00.3

This was a chance for these guys to explain their vision of what they're doing, what they

2:04.3

want to do in publishing.

2:06.1

I think they got that chance.

2:07.5

You can judge for yourself.

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