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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 did it take 5 months to solve the Writers’ Strike?

22 mins; September 25, 2023

Why did Rupert Murdoch just leave his media empire?

18 mins; September 21, 2023

How Matthew Berry made fake football his real job

39 mins; September 20, 2023

Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Rise and Fall

38 mins; September 13, 2023

The Business of Taylor Swift

26 mins; September 11, 2023

It’s the US vs China with tech in between

25 mins; September 06, 2023

CNN is Mark Thompson’s problem now

26 mins; August 30, 2023

How The Try Guys survived going viral

33 mins; August 23, 2023

Today, Explained: Sound of Freedom is the surprise movie hit of the summer

30 mins; August 16, 2023

Land of the Giants: How Tesla became the Elon Musk Co.

38 mins; August 09, 2023

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker says tech isn’t our problem - it’s us

42 mins; August 02, 2023

Why Lina Khan is fighting big tech - and losing

29 mins; July 26, 2023

Strikes! AI! And a Steven Soderbergh show he’s selling himself.

56 mins; July 19, 2023

Can Meta Make a Twitter Killer?

70 hours 36 mins; July 12, 2023

Why ESPN’s old boss made movies you can’t see - yet

43 mins; July 03, 2023

How to make laughs on TikTok and action on Netflix

58 mins; June 28, 2023

Is Instagram the place to unbreak news?

54 mins; June 21, 2023

Meet the AI company that wants to remake Hollywood

42 mins; June 14, 2023

CNN’s CEO is out; Apple reveals its goggles

47 mins; June 07, 2023

NYT rising star Astead Herndon on podcasts, power, and the 2024 race

50 mins; May 31, 2023

Meet the media insider who makes Succession feel real

32 mins; May 22, 2023

It’s TV’s biggest week - and TV is on strike

44 mins; May 15, 2023

Ken Jennings on the future of Jeopardy!

48 mins; May 10, 2023

How worried—or excited—should we be about AI?

53 mins; May 03, 2023

Jonah Peretti, Nick Denton and Ben Smith on digital news’ past and future

36 mins; May 02, 2023

Inside the AI Gold Rush

47 mins; April 26, 2023

AI is the future! AI is a fraud. Let's debate.

51 mins; April 19, 2023

Has Fox News learned a $787 million lesson?

30 mins; April 19, 2023

'Chef Reactions' blew up on TikTok. But will TikTok blow up?

50 mins; April 12, 2023

Why is a talent agency buying pro wrestling? Plus a green media startup

61 hours 14 mins; April 05, 2023

Is Apple sure about Apple’s new Goggles? Plus Roger Bennett, Media Mogul

40 mins; March 29, 2023

Podcast pioneer Jesse Thorn built his own business. Now his employees own it.

41 mins; March 22, 2023

An SVB (phew!) update + Benedict Evans on the future of (almost) everything

64 hours 33 mins; March 15, 2023

Science fiction pioneer Neal Stephenson on the metaverse, the movies and why he still believes in blockchain

44 mins; March 05, 2023

Meet the woman who got De La Soul streaming

37 mins; March 02, 2023

Real-life “Succession”: Jim Stewart on Sumner Redstone’s sordid saga

37 mins; February 22, 2023

We quiz BuzzFeed’s CEO about AI

26 mins; February 14, 2023

Why is tech in trouble if the economy is ok?

44 mins; February 08, 2023

Land of the Giants: The Hidden Hand Behind Your Swipes

39 mins; February 01, 2023

Don't tell investor Li Jin that Web3 is dead

44 mins; January 25, 2023

How The Last of Us went from hit game to hit zombie tv

38 mins; January 17, 2023

"Resist trying to make things better" - a conversation with internet security expert Alex Stamos

53 mins; January 16, 2023

Was YouTube’s NFL deal a $2 billion mistake?

37 mins; January 11, 2023

Apple’s new goggles; Hollywood’s new streaming pitch.

41 mins; January 04, 2023

Reader Mail!

36 mins; December 28, 2022

An Elon-free year in review

36 mins; December 19, 2022

A n00b’s guide to the Microsoft / Activision deal the FTC wants to stop

44 mins; December 12, 2022

Why the media landscape is “dire” with WSJ’s Jessica Toonkel

29 mins; December 07, 2022

How Eventbrite survived the pandemic, and why it’s not fighting Ticketmaster

36 mins; November 30, 2022

It’s not TV it’s HBO — the book

52 mins; November 28, 2022

How to watch a complicated World Cup

37 mins; November 20, 2022

Life, the internet, and everything with Garbage Day’s Ryan Broderick

49 mins; November 16, 2022

What Elon’s past tells us about his present

41 mins; November 15, 2022

Tech’s big bust, plus Marvel (and Wakanda) Forever?

33 mins; November 09, 2022

Election special with Punchbowl's Jake Sherman

40 mins; November 02, 2022

Jason Gay isn’t making Elon Musk jokes

25 mins; October 31, 2022

Bloomberg’s Matt Levine still loves crypto; Ankler’s Janice Min loves newsletters

75 hours 11 mins; October 26, 2022

Ben Smith says Semafor will take 10 years to get right

35 mins; October 24, 2022

Netflix is back (?) + Julia Boorstin on women who lead

50 mins; October 19, 2022

Inside the curious mind of XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe

37 mins; October 12, 2022

Elon Musk is buying Twitter. Really. (Really?)

44 mins; October 04, 2022

Interview with Interview with a Vampire’s Eric Bogosian

44 mins; September 28, 2022

YouTube fights TikTok with cash

30 mins; September 21, 2022

José Andrés has a full plate, but he's adding more

29 mins; September 14, 2022

The inside story of YouTube

50 mins; September 07, 2022

Why the Good Fight creators are glad they moved from CBS to streaming

36 mins; August 31, 2022

Algorithms that give you anxiety and a Web3 project that doesn't suck.

35 mins; August 24, 2022

Home Box Office of the Dragon

30 mins; August 17, 2022

Why the Democrats finally got on TikTok

41 mins; August 10, 2022

Land of the Giants: Why Instagram Broke Its Square

37 mins; August 03, 2022

B.J. Novak on “Vengeance”, podcasts and the downside of the streaming boom

46 mins; July 28, 2022

What is the metaverse, when is it going to show up and who’s going to run it?

32 mins; July 18, 2022

Ken Auletta on the Harvey Weinstein story he wrote, the story he couldn’t write, and the one he’s publishing now.

32 mins; July 11, 2022

Netflix has a huge hit with Peaky Blinders — and Caryn Mandabach owns it.

31 mins; July 06, 2022

The future of: Crypto criticism; Substack and ABC News

60 hours 29 mins; June 29, 2022

Is this a Netflix problem or a streaming problem?

35 mins; June 22, 2022

Bill Simmons on podcasts, celebrity interviews and life at Spotify

60 hours 26 mins; June 14, 2022

Why is this VC on your TikTok?

42 mins; June 08, 2022

Engineer Molly White explains why Web3 isn’t going great

32 mins; June 01, 2022

Is Big Tech getting better about misinformation?

32 mins; May 25, 2022

What can you learn from the guy who built the iPod?

78 hours 19 mins; May 18, 2022

Ronan Farrow: “We are living in a post-privacy age”

46 mins; May 11, 2022

Behind the scenes at Apple with journalist Tripp Mickle

34 mins; May 04, 2022

NYT’s Wesley Morris on writing, podcasting and staying off TikTok

44 mins; April 27, 2022

Can Elon Fix Twitter? Can Reed Fix Netflix?

70 hours 12 mins; April 26, 2022

Elon and Twitter: A love/hate story

45 mins; April 19, 2022

Disney vs. Itself vs. The Right

53 mins; April 13, 2022

The State of Streaming

61 hours 11 mins; April 06, 2022

Judd Apatow on The Bubble, TikTok and The Slap

43 mins; March 29, 2022

The Oscars: Hollywood’s smallest biggest night?

38 mins; March 23, 2022

Dan Le Batard on life after ESPN; Russia sanctions upend big-time soccer

58 mins; March 16, 2022

Big Tech takes a side, finally + Zappos' tragic founder

43 mins; March 09, 2022

Covering the war in Ukraine, online and on the ground

68 hours 12 mins; March 02, 2022

Uber, but for TV

50 mins; February 23, 2022

Chuck Klosterman relives the 1990s & Sarah Palin loses her NYT libel suit

66 hours 27 mins; February 16, 2022

What's next for CNN? + The Afterparty's Ben Schwartz writes jokes for C-3PO

65 hours 43 mins; February 09, 2022

Is Spotify’s Joe Rogan problem over? Plus how to launch a new media startup.

66 hours 31 mins; February 02, 2022

Game on: Behind the sports betting boom

52 mins; January 26, 2022

Gaming out Microsoft’s $69 billion Activision Blizzard deal

53 mins; January 19, 2022

So … what the hell is Web3? With the Chernin Group’s Jarrod Dicker

65 hours 1 min; January 12, 2022

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