Channels with Peter Kafka
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The Ad Industry's Weirdest Tradition
Jun 24, 202629 min
A Hollywood Manager Explains the New Rules of Show Biz
Jun 17, 202653 min
Brian Stelter on the 60 Minutes Mess; Nilay Patel on Apple’s AI Problem
Jun 10, 20261h 6m
How Dhar Mann Turned After-School Specials Into A Billion-View Business
Jun 3, 202637 min
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour Explains Why Boring Data Is a Great Media Business
May 27, 202646 min
Vox Media's Jim Bankoff Explains Why He's Selling to James Murdoch
May 20, 202628 min
Versant CEO Mark Lazarus is Running a Post-Cable Cable Company
May 20, 202640 min
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on AI, the Met Gala and His Secret Succession Plan
May 13, 202653 min
The Internet’s Let-It-Rip Era, With The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel
May 6, 20261h 4m
AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford
Apr 29, 202653 min
Jason Blum Built a Hit-Making Movie Machine. Does It Still Work?
Apr 22, 202627 min
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Sam Altman’s Trust Problem
Apr 13, 202646 min
What Happens When a “Succession” Writer Takes on Silicon Valley
Apr 8, 202641 min
Why We Need to Pay Attention to Elon Musk Again
Apr 1, 202650 min
Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet
Mar 25, 202645 min
How to Survive without Google: People Inc's Playbook
Mar 18, 202648 min
Matt Belloni on the Oscars, the Ellisons, and Hollywood’s Next Chapter
Mar 11, 202641 min
The World’s Cup Is Coming to Trump’s America, with Roger Bennett
Mar 4, 202640 min
Netflix Walks, Paramount Wins, and the Ellisons Take Hollywood
Feb 27, 202633 min
Brian Stelter on the Trump Media Shakedown Era
Feb 25, 202649 min
Janice Min on Hollywood’s Crisis; Reed Duchscher on the Creator Boom
Feb 18, 20261h 7m
How Odd Lots' Joe Weisenthal Turned Curiosity Into a Career, and a Hit Podcast
Feb 11, 20261h 10m
Jeff Bezos Used To Be In Love with The Washington Post. What Happened?
Feb 5, 202634 min
Who is Josh D'Amaro and Why is He Disney's New CEO?
Feb 3, 202638 min
Running a Newsroom in Minneapolis + How to Make a Game of Thrones For Less
Jan 28, 202638 min
Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Owns TV (and Why It Won’t Forever)
Jan 21, 202656 min
How to Build a Profitable Media Company in 3 years, with Semafor’s Justin Smith
Jan 14, 202639 min
Inside Bari Weiss’s Rise: LA, Sun Valley, and the Mogul Network
Jan 7, 202640 min
Craig Finn on Friendship, Fans and The Hold Steady’s Second Life
Dec 31, 202548 min
Podcast Pioneer PJ Vogt’s Second Act: Less Budget, More Control
Dec 24, 202554 min
"Neither Side Is Used to Losing." Lucas Shaw on What’s Next for Netflix and Paramount in the Battle for Warner Bros.
Dec 17, 202541 min
Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He’s a Must-Read Media Gossip.
Dec 10, 202546 min
"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw
Dec 5, 202518 min
PBS Lost a Billion Dollars. Now what? With CEO Paula Kerger
Dec 3, 202540 min
What Happens To Media When The Web Goes Away, with Tony Haile
Nov 26, 202539 min
Kevin Reilly got to the top of the TV heap. Now he's in AI.
Nov 19, 202540 min
What the Disney–YouTube Battle Tells Us About the End of Cable
Nov 12, 202552 min
The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell on Why Republicans Won the Attention War
Nov 5, 202545 min
The Man Who Fixed The New York Times Wants to Fix CNN
Oct 28, 202552 min
The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next
Oct 22, 202556 min
The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust
Oct 15, 202554 min
Why the Guardian Doesn't Need a Billionaire to Thrive
Oct 8, 202539 min
Almost Everyone is Taking Money from OpenAI. Why is Ziff Davis suing them?
Oct 1, 202534 min
The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment
Sep 24, 202526 min
I tried Zuckerberg's $800 Ray-Bans. Are they the future? With Alex Heath
Sep 18, 202545 min
How TBPN Made a Tech News Splash
Sep 15, 202539 min
Patch’s AI Experiment: Thousands of Newsletters, Zero Humans
Sep 10, 202539 min
Oliver Darcy Thinks the Media Doesn’t Get It. So He Built Status
Sep 3, 202553 min
Why Henry Blodget is Building Another Media Company
Aug 27, 202557 min
ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro on streaming, the NFL and sports betting
Aug 20, 202548 min