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Channels with Peter Kafka

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.

Why We Need to Pay Attention to Elon Musk Again

50 mins; April 01, 2026

Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet

45 mins; March 25, 2026

How to Survive without Google: People Inc's Playbook

48 mins; March 18, 2026

Matt Belloni on the Oscars, the Ellisons, and Hollywood’s Next Chapter

41 mins; March 11, 2026

The World’s Cup Is Coming to Trump’s America, with Roger Bennett

40 mins; March 04, 2026

Netflix Walks, Paramount Wins, and the Ellisons Take Hollywood

33 mins; February 27, 2026

Brian Stelter on the Trump Media Shakedown Era

49 mins; February 25, 2026

Janice Min on Hollywood’s Crisis; Reed Duchscher on the Creator Boom

67 hours 43 mins; February 18, 2026

How Odd Lots' Joe Weisenthal Turned Curiosity Into a Career, and a Hit Podcast

70 hours 12 mins; February 11, 2026

Jeff Bezos Used To Be In Love with The Washington Post. What Happened?

34 mins; February 05, 2026

Who is Josh D'Amaro and Why is He Disney's New CEO?

38 mins; February 03, 2026

Running a Newsroom in Minneapolis + How to Make a Game of Thrones For Less

38 mins; January 28, 2026

Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Owns TV (and Why It Won’t Forever)

56 mins; January 21, 2026

How to Build a Profitable Media Company in 3 years, with Semafor’s Justin Smith

39 mins; January 14, 2026

Inside Bari Weiss’s Rise: LA, Sun Valley, and the Mogul Network

40 mins; January 07, 2026

Craig Finn on Friendship, Fans and The Hold Steady’s Second Life

48 mins; December 31, 2025

Podcast Pioneer PJ Vogt’s Second Act: Less Budget, More Control

54 mins; December 24, 2025

"Neither Side Is Used to Losing." Lucas Shaw on What’s Next for Netflix and Paramount in the Battle for Warner Bros.

41 mins; December 17, 2025

Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He’s a Must-Read Media Gossip.

46 mins; December 10, 2025

"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw

18 mins; December 05, 2025

PBS Lost a Billion Dollars. Now what? With CEO Paula Kerger

40 mins; December 03, 2025

What Happens To Media When The Web Goes Away, with Tony Haile

39 mins; November 26, 2025

Kevin Reilly got to the top of the TV heap. Now he's in AI.

40 mins; November 19, 2025

What the Disney–YouTube Battle Tells Us About the End of Cable

52 mins; November 12, 2025

The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell on Why Republicans Won the Attention War

45 mins; November 05, 2025

The Man Who Fixed The New York Times Wants to Fix CNN

52 mins; October 28, 2025

The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next

56 mins; October 22, 2025

The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust

54 mins; October 15, 2025

Why the Guardian Doesn't Need a Billionaire to Thrive

39 mins; October 08, 2025

Almost Everyone is Taking Money from OpenAI. Why is Ziff Davis suing them?

34 mins; October 01, 2025

The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment

26 mins; September 24, 2025

I tried Zuckerberg's $800 Ray-Bans. Are they the future? With Alex Heath

45 mins; September 17, 2025

How TBPN Made a Tech News Splash

39 mins; September 15, 2025

Patch’s AI Experiment: Thousands of Newsletters, Zero Humans

39 mins; September 10, 2025

Oliver Darcy Thinks the Media Doesn’t Get It. So He Built Status

53 mins; September 03, 2025

Why Henry Blodget is Building Another Media Company

57 mins; August 27, 2025

ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro on streaming, the NFL and sports betting

48 mins; August 20, 2025

A Busy - and Expensive - Summer for AI, with NYT's Mike Isaac

51 mins; August 13, 2025

Why the Algorithm is Making Comedy Boom, Again

58 mins; August 06, 2025

What is TV’s endgame?

47 mins; July 30, 2025

Why Trump is defunding NPR and PBS - and suing Rupert Murdoch

35 mins; July 23, 2025

Inside the Rise and Fall of Condé Nast with Michael Grynbaum

47 mins; July 16, 2025

Inside the NYT - and Everywhere Else - with Semafor's Max Tani

48 mins; July 09, 2025

Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker on the problem with tech - and people

43 mins; July 02, 2025

How to become a Substack Star with Emily Sundberg

47 mins; June 25, 2025

Why did Apple ice out the most famous Apple blogger?

64 hours 48 mins; June 18, 2025

On the hunt for media optimism, with Semafor’s Ben Smith and The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey

28 mins; June 12, 2025

Scott Frank on Netflix, the future of Hollywood, and Dept. Q

43 mins; June 11, 2025

Bluesky Wasn’t Supposed to be a Twitter Rival. Now It Is.

37 mins; June 04, 2025

How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired’s Katie Drummond

47 mins; May 28, 2025

Meta's Adam Mosseri explains how Instagram really works - and how he wants to build Threads

58 mins; May 21, 2025

How Apple trapped itself in China

67 hours 32 mins; May 14, 2025

Ian Rogers tells me I need a crypto wallet

64 hours 41 mins; May 07, 2025

How to fight Apple and (maybe) win, with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney

33 mins; May 06, 2025

Tariffs, Trump, TikTok: What’s going to happen to ads in 2025?

54 mins; April 30, 2025

Roblox CEO David Baszucki knows what your kids are doing.

44 mins; April 23, 2025

How to make money in Washington, with Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman

40 mins; April 16, 2025

NYT publisher AG Sulzberger on Trump, OpenAi and the economy

65 hours 7 mins; April 09, 2025

Trump vs The Media, Round 2, with Sara Fischer

46 mins; April 02, 2025

How long can sports keep TV alive?

43 mins; March 26, 2025

Inside PJ Vogt’s low budget, super successful podcast

65 hours 40 mins; March 19, 2025

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants to hang on to the live-streaming crown

60 hours 49 mins; March 12, 2025

Matt Belloni: what the Oscars tell us about Hollywood

39 mins; March 05, 2025

Free speech is under attack

53 mins; February 26, 2025

Matthew Ball: Why the games business is broken

38 mins; February 19, 2025

BuzzFeed wants to build a… social network?

34 mins; February 12, 2025

Why Michael Lewis is worried about the sports betting boom

57 mins; February 05, 2025

How Silicon Valley really feels about Trump, TikTok and DeepSeek

47 mins; January 29, 2025

How TikTok (still) works

36 mins; January 22, 2025

How does Wall Street think about Trump, media and tech?

42 mins; January 15, 2025

Why Katie Notopoulos still loves the internet

51 mins; January 08, 2025

Looking back, and ahead, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw

43 mins; December 18, 2024

1440’s newsletters are short, popular and profitable

48 mins; December 11, 2024

Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0

56 mins; December 04, 2024

How to build your own media company - without VCs or billionaires

50 mins; November 27, 2024

Meet the man making money for Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly

41 mins; November 20, 2024

Taylor Lorenz on Joe Rogan, Joe Biden and goodbye to big media.

50 mins; November 13, 2024

Elon Musk funds Trump — and owns Twitter. What does that mean?

69 hours 48 mins; November 06, 2024

Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett wants to win an election and make money

39 mins; October 30, 2024

Emma Tucker brought fresh eyes to the Wall Street Journal

29 mins; October 23, 2024

Tubi CEO Anjali Sud says you can’t beat free

37 mins; October 16, 2024

Behind the scenes of the Trump movie you almost never saw

64 hours 21 mins; October 09, 2024

Matt Yglesias on the election, Substack success and the great unbundling

44 mins; October 02, 2024

I tried Orion, Mark Zuckerberg's $10k face computer

32 mins; September 25, 2024

YouTube ceo Neal Mohan wants to share the wealth

48 mins; September 18, 2024

How David Remnick remade the New Yorker

44 mins; September 11, 2024

Welcome to Channels with Peter Kafka

1 min; September 10, 2024

That’s a wrap (for now)

38 mins; December 06, 2023

Sam Altman’s back at OpenAI. What’s next?

47 mins; November 28, 2023

What just happened to OpenAI?

29 mins; November 20, 2023

Why so, Sirius?

34 mins; November 15, 2023

No seriously. What’s the future of Disney? And why did Fox News fire Tucker Carlson?

51 mins; November 08, 2023

Land of the Giants: What We All Got Wrong About Twitter

42 mins; November 01, 2023

How Dropout found success streaming comedy for $6 a month

32 mins; October 25, 2023

Inside the New York Times’ controversial Gaza headline

21 mins; October 25, 2023

How the Washington Post is covering the Israel-Hamas War

20 mins; October 18, 2023

The rise and (maybe) fall of Marvel

42 mins; October 11, 2023

The internet, explained by Taylor Lorenz

35 mins; October 04, 2023

Warner Music Group’s CEO says AI songs are coming whether you like it or not

31 mins; October 01, 2023

HBO boss Casey Bloys on the strikes, the bundle and AI

29 mins; September 27, 2023

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