Channels with Peter Kafka
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How the right covers 1/6 + tales from the Theranos trial, with Oliver Darcy and Erin Griffith
49 mins; January 05, 2022
The Verge’s Ashley Carman on podcasting’s big year
36 mins; December 26, 2021
What the hell happened in 2021? With Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw.
45 mins; December 19, 2021
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar’s almost-exit interview
49 mins; December 14, 2021
BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti has gone public
35 mins; December 05, 2021
@Jack is leaving Twitter. What now? + Lina Khan’s battle with Big Tech
45 mins; December 02, 2021
Director Rhys Thomas on his unlikely journey from SNL to Disney’s Hawkeye
39 mins; November 22, 2021
The inside story of HBO, with Jim Miller
58 mins; November 17, 2021
What is Twitter Blue and is it worth $3?
31 mins; November 10, 2021
Facebook’s Metaverse explained - by metaverse explainer Matthew Ball. Plus Justin Smith builds a media biz for Bloomb
59 mins; November 03, 2021
How to cover the Facebook leaks + SNL’s Heidi Gardner
67 hours 58 mins; October 27, 2021
Dotdash CEO Neil Vogel on his $2.7 billion Meredith deal
32 mins; October 20, 2021
Land of the Giants: "He's No Steve Jobs"
37 mins; October 13, 2021
Ozy Media, RIP with NYT’s Ben Smith + Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on remaking a magazine giant
51 mins; October 06, 2021
Streamers shrink Hollywood, again + What’s a “Hate Raid”?
31 mins; September 29, 2021
How Peter Thiel went from Silicon Valley to The White House with Max Chafkin
55 mins; September 22, 2021
Instagram boss Adam Mosseri on teenagers, Tik-Tok and paying creators
65 hours 58 mins; September 15, 2021
Big changes at Apple: New phones, new AR glasses, and big app store changes.
43 mins; September 08, 2021
Defector Media: Life after Deadspin is good (and profitable)
36 mins; September 01, 2021
OnlyFans’ weird week with MEL’s Magdalene Taylor; BuzzFeed’s Joe Bernstein on the problem with our misinformation problem.
39 mins; August 25, 2021
WWE’s Nick Khan on pivoting his streaming strategy and getting back in the ring
35 mins; August 18, 2021
NYT’s Shira Ovide on the everything and nothingness of tech.
36 mins; August 11, 2021
Reese’s $900 million deal; ScarJo vs Disney with Matt Belloni, + Derek Thompson on how the media covers Delta
58 mins; August 04, 2021
Director Tom McCarthy on Stillwater, finishing a movie in a pandemic and playing one of the Wire’s best villains
39 mins; July 28, 2021
Deep fakes come to the movies and Hollywood resets for the streaming era
45 mins; July 21, 2021
WeWork's rise and fall (and rise again?) with Eliot Brown
43 mins; July 14, 2021
Kevin Delaney turns the future of work into a media business; plus a Sun Valley update from David Gura.
56 mins; July 07, 2021
Men In Blazers’ Roger Bennett loves soccer and America
53 mins; June 30, 2021
One of the most popular streamers on Twitch… is a lefty political commentator? Hasan Piker explains
35 mins; June 23, 2021
One of Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors is now a media company, too
29 mins; June 15, 2021
Jake and Amir on being Web famous, fed up with Hollywood, and podcast bosses
30 mins; June 09, 2021
How to make it in the creator economy with Rob Walker
34 mins; June 02, 2021
Why is Amazon buying MGM?
44 mins; May 26, 2021
Jim Miller on HBO’s new home; Alan Yang on a very different season of “Master of None”
42 mins; May 19, 2021
Why did AT&T just bail on WarnerMedia? And what happens next?
29 mins; May 17, 2021
Antonio GarcĂ­a MartĂ­nez's controversial exit from Apple
23 mins; May 14, 2021
Live music is back! Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino can't wait
43 mins; May 12, 2021
The Jeff Bezos Empire with Brad Stone & Jason Del Rey
63 hours 12 mins; May 10, 2021
Apple vs Epic with John Gruber; Truth, Doubt and History with Jill Lepore
60 hours 59 mins; May 05, 2021
AMC Networks can’t compete with Netflix. CEO Josh Sapan is fine with that.
39 mins; April 28, 2021
Did the pandemic kill the Oscars?
53 mins; April 21, 2021
Apple and Facebook's ambitious audio plans
23 mins; April 20, 2021
Substack’s next target: Local news
41 mins; April 15, 2021
How Hollywood and the NBA are betting on NFTs
77 hours 49 mins; April 12, 2021
WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar on a wild first year on the job
49 mins; April 07, 2021
Media Merger Mania with Axios’ Dan Primack and WSJ’s Ben Mullin
36 mins; March 31, 2021
The rise and maybe fall of YouTube star David Dobrik; inside Facebook with the Markup’s Julia Angwin
50 mins; March 24, 2021
How Christina “Tinx” Najjar became a TikTok star overnight
48 mins; March 17, 2021
How did - and didn’t - the pandemic transform media?
77 hours 58 mins; March 10, 2021
Fubo TV is a Reddit meme stock. CEO David Gandler has bigger ambitions.
46 mins; March 08, 2021
Have we hit peak streaming? + NYT’s Kevin Roose on his new book “Futureproof”
56 mins; March 03, 2021
Australia vs. Facebook; Al Madrigal means business about All Things Comedy
43 mins; February 24, 2021
Pandora founder Tim Westergren on the future of streaming
36 mins; February 17, 2021
New York Times CEO Meredith Levien on the future of news, and her newspaper
41 mins; February 10, 2021
How To Make An Influencer In America with Nick Bilton
39 mins; February 03, 2021
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Gamestop, Robinhood, Reddit and how to fix the system.
40 mins; February 02, 2021
How Jessica Lessin got people to pay for The Information
41 mins; January 27, 2021
Trump vs the Press - a final report card from Jay Rosen
50 mins; January 20, 2021
What the Capitol Riot tells us about online power
48 mins; January 13, 2021
Behind the making of The Dissident, the movie about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
43 mins; January 06, 2021
Zach Seward started Quartz, sold it, and bought it back. Now what?
43 mins; December 30, 2020
Kemp Powers spent years breaking into Hollywood — and his first film is Pixar’s Soul
43 mins; December 22, 2020
Trump is leaving; Trump media isn't
62 hours 32 mins; December 16, 2020
Behind the scenes with Queen’s Gambit creator Scott Frank
58 mins; December 09, 2020
Eli Pariser wants to build a better Facebook
40 mins; December 02, 2020
Gimlet’s Lydia Polgreen wants to shake up podcasting
44 mins; November 24, 2020
BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti explains his HuffPost deal
26 mins; November 19, 2020
ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish on Paramount+, Pluto TV
33 mins; November 18, 2020
Fox and the New York Times face the end of the Trump era
63 hours 41 mins; November 11, 2020
NY Mag's Olivia Nuzzi takes us inside Trumpworld, post Election Day
44 mins; November 04, 2020
Election 2020: What happens next?
38 mins; November 04, 2020
Why Zeynep Tufekci saw the pandemic coming - and what else she knows
66 hours 52 mins; October 28, 2020
Google vs The U.S. Government
37 mins; October 21, 2020
ESPN’s Pablo Torre on balancing sports and politics
39 mins; October 14, 2020
Congress comes for big tech; Axios thrives in the pandemic
65 hours 9 mins; October 07, 2020
Is big media bouncing back from the pandemic?
47 mins; September 30, 2020
Politico editor Carrie Budoff Brown on the challenge of covering 2020
43 mins; September 23, 2020
QAnon Explained with NBC's Ben Collins
50 mins; September 16, 2020
Ben Thompson explains TikTok, Trump and China
23 mins; September 16, 2020
Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman is building a media brand one newsletter at a time
33 mins; September 09, 2020
Baratunde Thurston wants to teach us how to be a good citizen
41 mins; September 02, 2020
NYT’s James Poniewozik on the virtual conventions; CNN’s Brian Stelter on Trump + Fox
54 mins; August 26, 2020
Why Desus & Mero are pandemic-proof
47 mins; August 19, 2020
NYT CEO Mark Thompson on subscriptions, platforms and internal Slack fights; IAC’s Joey Levin bets on betting.
56 mins; August 12, 2020
Kurt Andersen on the “Evil Geniuses” that got America into this mess
47 mins; August 05, 2020
Sports are back! But for how long?
57 mins; July 29, 2020
Why your favorite writers are taking their talents to Substack. Plus: Peacock!
42 mins; July 22, 2020
Hank Green on everything YouTube, Tik Tok, podcasting, and Montana
51 mins; July 15, 2020
How to run a newspaper in Hong Kong: South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu
40 mins; July 08, 2020
Why Fox bet $450 million on Tubi and free streaming
36 mins; July 01, 2020
How Netflix became a streaming giant
27 mins; June 24, 2020
W. Kamau Bell wants to help you understand racism
45 mins; June 17, 2020
Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez wants to make the Marvel of podcasts
59 mins; June 10, 2020
Conferences were a great business — before the pandemic
69 hours 42 mins; June 03, 2020
Twitter, Trump, Facebook and George Floyd with NYT’s Charlie Warzel
48 mins; June 01, 2020
HBO Max is here!
36 mins; May 25, 2020
Meet the man who made Netflix’s most popular movie
41 mins; May 20, 2020
Joe Rogan takes his podcast to Spotify
15 mins; May 19, 2020
It’s Twitch’s Time: Talking live streaming with gamer Dr. Lupo and journalist Bijan Stephen
53 mins; May 13, 2020
How Tara Reade told her story
41 mins; May 11, 2020