Channels with Peter Kafka
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Channels with Peter Kafka

by Vox Media Podcast Network

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.Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

103 episodes
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1
Why We Need to Pay Attention to Elon Musk Again
50:05 Apr 1, 2026
2
Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet
45:54 Mar 25, 2026
3
How to Survive without Google: People Inc's Playbook
48:20 Mar 18, 2026
4
Matt Belloni on the Oscars, the Ellisons, and Hollywood’s Next Chapter
41:00 Mar 11, 2026
5
The World’s Cup Is Coming to Trump’s America, with Roger Bennett
40:28 Mar 4, 2026
6
Netflix Walks, Paramount Wins, and the Ellisons Take Hollywood
33:31 Feb 27, 2026
7
Brian Stelter on the Trump Media Shakedown Era
49:39 Feb 25, 2026
8
Janice Min on Hollywood’s Crisis; Reed Duchscher on the Creator Boom
1:07:43 Feb 18, 2026
9
How Odd Lots' Joe Weisenthal Turned Curiosity Into a Career, and a Hit Podcast
1:10:12 Feb 11, 2026
10
Jeff Bezos Used To Be In Love with The Washington Post. What Happened?
34:58 Feb 5, 2026
11
Who is Josh D'Amaro and Why is He Disney's New CEO?
38:41 Feb 3, 2026
12
Running a Newsroom in Minneapolis + How to Make a Game of Thrones For Less
38:46 Jan 28, 2026
13
Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Owns TV (and Why It Won’t Forever)
56:16 Jan 21, 2026
14
How to Build a Profitable Media Company in 3 years, with Semafor’s Justin Smith
39:32 Jan 14, 2026
15
Inside Bari Weiss’s Rise: LA, Sun Valley, and the Mogul Network
40:04 Jan 7, 2026
16
Craig Finn on Friendship, Fans and The Hold Steady’s Second Life
48:49 Dec 31, 2025
17
Podcast Pioneer PJ Vogt’s Second Act: Less Budget, More Control
54:48 Dec 24, 2025
18
"Neither Side Is Used to Losing." Lucas Shaw on What’s Next for Netflix and Paramount in the Battle for Warner Bros.
41:56 Dec 17, 2025
19
Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He’s a Must-Read Media Gossip.
46:51 Dec 10, 2025
20
"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw
18:45 Dec 5, 2025
21
PBS Lost a Billion Dollars. Now what? With CEO Paula Kerger
40:26 Dec 3, 2025
22
What Happens To Media When The Web Goes Away, with Tony Haile
39:09 Nov 26, 2025
23
Kevin Reilly got to the top of the TV heap. Now he's in AI.
40:10 Nov 19, 2025
24
What the Disney–YouTube Battle Tells Us About the End of Cable
52:39 Nov 12, 2025
25
The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell on Why Republicans Won the Attention War
45:25 Nov 5, 2025
26
The Man Who Fixed The New York Times Wants to Fix CNN
52:17 Oct 28, 2025
27
The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next
56:54 Oct 22, 2025
28
The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust
54:36 Oct 15, 2025
29
Why the Guardian Doesn't Need a Billionaire to Thrive
39:00 Oct 8, 2025
30
Almost Everyone is Taking Money from OpenAI. Why is Ziff Davis suing them?
34:22 Oct 1, 2025
31
The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment
26:53 Sep 24, 2025
32
I tried Zuckerberg's $800 Ray-Bans. Are they the future? With Alex Heath
45:00 Sep 18, 2025
33
How TBPN Made a Tech News Splash
39:10 Sep 15, 2025
34
Patch’s AI Experiment: Thousands of Newsletters, Zero Humans
39:07 Sep 10, 2025
35
Oliver Darcy Thinks the Media Doesn’t Get It. So He Built Status
53:40 Sep 3, 2025
36
Why Henry Blodget is Building Another Media Company
57:56 Aug 27, 2025
37
ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro on streaming, the NFL and sports betting
48:14 Aug 20, 2025
38
A Busy - and Expensive - Summer for AI, with NYT's Mike Isaac
51:42 Aug 13, 2025
39
Why the Algorithm is Making Comedy Boom, Again
58:53 Aug 6, 2025
40
What is TV’s endgame?
47:28 Jul 30, 2025
41
Why Trump is defunding NPR and PBS - and suing Rupert Murdoch
35:59 Jul 23, 2025
42
Inside the Rise and Fall of Condé Nast with Michael Grynbaum
47:38 Jul 16, 2025
43
Inside the NYT - and Everywhere Else - with Semafor's Max Tani
48:09 Jul 9, 2025
44
Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker on the problem with tech - and people
43:47 Jul 2, 2025
45
How to become a Substack Star with Emily Sundberg
47:07 Jun 25, 2025
46
Why did Apple ice out the most famous Apple blogger?
1:04:48 Jun 18, 2025
47
On the hunt for media optimism, with Semafor’s Ben Smith and The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey
28:22 Jun 12, 2025
48
Scott Frank on Netflix, the future of Hollywood, and Dept. Q
43:42 Jun 11, 2025
49
Bluesky Wasn’t Supposed to be a Twitter Rival. Now It Is.
37:01 Jun 4, 2025
50
How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired’s Katie Drummond
47:58 May 28, 2025
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