Channels with Peter Kafka

BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti explains his HuffPost deal

Jonah Peretti co-founded Huffington Post, then left to start BuzzFeed. Now he’s running both companies. He sits down with Recode Media’s Peter Kafka to explain the logic behind the deal, his ambitions to grow even bigger - and why he says the New York Times can’t be “the paper of record”.

Featuring: Jonah Peretti (@peretti), Founder &amp; CEO of BuzzFeed
Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode
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Media and tech aren’t just intersecting — they’re fully intertwined. And to understand how those worlds work, and what they mean for you, veteran journalist Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers - and gets them to spell it out in plain, BS-free English.
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