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Vox Media has promoted two of its top podcast executives, Ray Chao and Nishat Kurwa, to new svp roles overseeing video content and programming for the Vox Media Podcast Network, respectively.
Currently the general manager of audio, Chao is expanding his purview to include Vox Media’s digital video business as svp and gm of audio and digital video. The executive first joined Vox Media in 2021 and has gone on to secure talent deals with Kara Swisher, Sam Sanders, Noel King and Ariel Helwani, as well as sales and distribution partnerships with existing shows like Marques Brownlee’s Waveform: The Mkbhd Podcast; Josh Muccio’s The Pitch; Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley’s Gastropod and Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky and Evan Ratliff’s Longform podcast.
As svp and executive producer of audio, Kurwa will continue to lead programming, production operations, content strategy and...
Vox Media has promoted two of its top podcast executives, Ray Chao and Nishat Kurwa, to new svp roles overseeing video content and programming for the Vox Media Podcast Network, respectively.
Currently the general manager of audio, Chao is expanding his purview to include Vox Media’s digital video business as svp and gm of audio and digital video. The executive first joined Vox Media in 2021 and has gone on to secure talent deals with Kara Swisher, Sam Sanders, Noel King and Ariel Helwani, as well as sales and distribution partnerships with existing shows like Marques Brownlee’s Waveform: The Mkbhd Podcast; Josh Muccio’s The Pitch; Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley’s Gastropod and Aaron Lammer, Max Linsky and Evan Ratliff’s Longform podcast.
As svp and executive producer of audio, Kurwa will continue to lead programming, production operations, content strategy and...
- 12/7/2022
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: What better to liven up a quite Toronto Film Market than a package for a movie set in the rap arena, that has stars and a slam dunk a top-selling soundtrack?
Justice Smith, Idris Elba and Taylour Paige will star in We All Die Young, a drama that Hamilton star Daveed Diggs has scripted for Jake Schreier to direct. Schreier directed Robot & Frank and Paper Towns, and has worked closely with such rappers as Kanye West and Chance the Rapper. The film will be produced by Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner with Diggs, Schreier and Benny Blanco. Rapper Yg is exec producing and Aaron Lammer is co-producing. CAA Media Finance and WME will handle domestic distribution, while FilmNation handles international. Production begins in March.
Based on a story by Diggs and Chinaka Hodge, the film focuses on Marcus (Smith), a rapper in the...
Justice Smith, Idris Elba and Taylour Paige will star in We All Die Young, a drama that Hamilton star Daveed Diggs has scripted for Jake Schreier to direct. Schreier directed Robot & Frank and Paper Towns, and has worked closely with such rappers as Kanye West and Chance the Rapper. The film will be produced by Temple Hill’s Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen and Isaac Klausner with Diggs, Schreier and Benny Blanco. Rapper Yg is exec producing and Aaron Lammer is co-producing. CAA Media Finance and WME will handle domestic distribution, while FilmNation handles international. Production begins in March.
Based on a story by Diggs and Chinaka Hodge, the film focuses on Marcus (Smith), a rapper in the...
- 9/10/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
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