Recode
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| Tech blog | |
| languages | English |
| operator | Vox Media |
| On-line | January 2, 2014 (currently active) |
| https://www.recode.net/ | |
Recode (previously Re / code ) is an American technology blog that reports on American technology companies (mainly from Silicon Valley ). Recode holds annual conferences , the most important of which is the Code Conference in May . Recode was founded by the two technology journalists Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher in January 2014. Recode has been a subsidiary of Vox Media since May 2015 .
history
In September 2013, the two technology journalists Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher left the AllThingsD website they founded , a subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company . Mossberg also quit his job as a journalist on a weekly tech column for the Wall Street Journal at the end of the same year. Shortly afterwards, on January 2, 2014, the two colleagues founded Re / code , an independent website with journalistic articles and blogs on the technology division. The investment volume was estimated at 10-15 million US dollars. In addition to Mossberg and Swisher themselves, NBCUniversal and the leading editors of Re / code also made investments. The estimated market value at the time of inception was $ 28 million. Re / code started with 23 employees, including all of AllThingsD's employees such as Peter Kafka and Lauren Goode .
In addition to the website, Recode organizes conferences in the tradition of AllThingsD . The main event is the Code Conference , which is held in Dana Point every May . Other regular conferences are Peter Kafka's Code Media on digital media in February and Jason del Rey's Code Commerce on electronic commerce in September. There are also other events, for example as part of South by Southwest .
Re / code was valued for its journalistic work, but did not achieve the expected level of popularity with around 2.5 million website visitors. Although the donors would have been ready for further investment, Mossberg and Swisher decided in May 2015 to sell Re / code in full to Vox Media for approximately 15-20 million US dollars; At that time, Re / code had 44 employees and expected a profit of 12 million US dollars in the current financial year, which was mainly due to the successful conferences. The sale to Vox Media promised Mossberg and Swisher greater brand awareness as Vox Media's other subsidiary sites, including the technology website The Verge , had great success. In order to avoid overlapping with The Verge , Re / code now concentrated its reporting on the technology industry and published product reviews on consumer electronics no longer or only in cooperation with The Verge . In the course of this development, Walter Mossberg and Lauren Goode worked mainly at The Verge from now on .
In July 2015, Re / code released its first podcast, Recode Decode . On May 8, 2016, Re / code changed the spelling of its name to Recode and changed the design of the website as part of the switch to Vox Media's content management system Chorus , while Dan Frommer was hired as the new editor-in-chief. In September 2017, the website had around 5.65 million visitors.
Podcasts
- Recode decode
Since July 8, 2015, Kara Swisher has been publishing interviews on the technology industry with participants from this industry, politics or culture in her podcast Recode Decode, which appears at least once a week . Swisher conducted her first interview with Stewart Butterfield , the founder of Slack , other interviewees were Mark Zuckerberg , James Corden , Sheryl Sandberg , Jon Favreau , Ashton Kutcher and Nancy Pelosi .
- Too Embarrassed to Ask
The Too Embarrassed to Ask podcast has been published together with Recode Decode since July 8, 2015, initially as part of the Recode Decode podcast itself, and as an independent podcast since August 1, 2016. Lauren Goode and Kara Swisher act as moderators , who, together with a changing guest, initially discuss a topic from the technology industry, consumer electronics or entertainment electronics and in the second half of the podcast answer questions from the audience, either by e-mail or by Twitter using the hashtag #TooEmbarrassed .
- Recode Media
On February 17, 2016, Peter Kafka began publishing a weekly podcast with interviews on digital media . His interview guests included Peter Gould , Jon Favreau , Michael Allen and Ken Burns , among others .
- Recode replay
The Recode Replay Podcast is used to publish all interviews at the various Recode conferences .
Individual evidence
- ^ Dan Frommer: Introducing the new Recode . In: recode.net , May 8, 2016, accessed October 30, 2017.
- ^ Joshua Topolsky : Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher launch Re / code news site, Code Conference series . In: The Verge , January 2, 2014, accessed October 31, 2017.
- ↑ a b Alyson Shontell: Why Re / code, an 18-month-old tech news startup, really sold to Vox - even though it was generating $ 12 million . In: businessinsider.com , June 1, 2015, accessed October 31, 2017.
- ^ Walter Mossberg: Happy Re / new Year! . In: recode.net , January 1, 2014, accessed October 31, 2017.
- ↑ Recode: Code Work at SXSW 2017 . In: recode.net , accessed October 31, 2017.
- ↑ Kara Swisher: Hey 'Serial' Lady, Shove Over: Re / code Decode Podcast Debuts With Slack CEO Interview and More! . In: recode.net , July 8, 2015, accessed October 31, 2017.
- ^ Dan Frommer: Introducing the new Recode . In: recode.net , May 8, 2016, accessed October 31, 2017.
- ↑ Recode.net Analytics . SimilarWeb , accessed October 31, 2017.
Web links
- Web site Recode (English)