Channels with Peter Kafka
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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
A Busy - and Expensive - Summer for AI, with NYT's Mike Isaac
Aug 13, 202551 min
Why the Algorithm is Making Comedy Boom, Again
Aug 6, 202558 min
What is TV’s endgame?
Jul 30, 202547 min
Why Trump is defunding NPR and PBS - and suing Rupert Murdoch
Jul 23, 202535 min
Inside the Rise and Fall of Condé Nast with Michael Grynbaum
Jul 16, 202547 min
Inside the NYT - and Everywhere Else - with Semafor's Max Tani
Jul 9, 202548 min
Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker on the problem with tech - and people
Jul 2, 202543 min
How to become a Substack Star with Emily Sundberg
Jun 25, 202547 min
Why did Apple ice out the most famous Apple blogger?
Jun 18, 20251h 4m
On the hunt for media optimism, with Semafor’s Ben Smith and The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey
Jun 12, 202528 min
Scott Frank on Netflix, the future of Hollywood, and Dept. Q
Jun 11, 202543 min
Bluesky Wasn’t Supposed to be a Twitter Rival. Now It Is.
Jun 4, 202537 min
How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired’s Katie Drummond
May 28, 202547 min
Meta's Adam Mosseri explains how Instagram really works - and how he wants to build Threads
May 21, 202558 min
How Apple trapped itself in China
May 14, 20251h 7m
Ian Rogers tells me I need a crypto wallet
May 7, 20251h 4m
How to fight Apple and (maybe) win, with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney
May 6, 202533 min
Tariffs, Trump, TikTok: What’s going to happen to ads in 2025?
Apr 30, 202554 min
Roblox CEO David Baszucki knows what your kids are doing.
Apr 23, 202544 min
How to make money in Washington, with Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman
Apr 16, 202540 min
NYT publisher AG Sulzberger on Trump, OpenAi and the economy
Apr 9, 20251h 5m
Trump vs The Media, Round 2, with Sara Fischer
Apr 2, 202546 min
How long can sports keep TV alive?
Mar 26, 202543 min
Inside PJ Vogt’s low budget, super successful podcast
Mar 19, 20251h 5m
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants to hang on to the live-streaming crown
Mar 12, 20251h 0m
Matt Belloni: what the Oscars tell us about Hollywood
Mar 5, 202539 min
Free speech is under attack
Feb 26, 202553 min
Matthew Ball: Why the games business is broken
Feb 19, 202538 min
BuzzFeed wants to build a… social network?
Feb 12, 202534 min
Why Michael Lewis is worried about the sports betting boom
Feb 5, 202557 min
How Silicon Valley really feels about Trump, TikTok and DeepSeek
Jan 29, 202547 min
How TikTok (still) works
Jan 22, 202536 min
How does Wall Street think about Trump, media and tech?
Jan 15, 202542 min
Why Katie Notopoulos still loves the internet
Jan 8, 202551 min
Looking back, and ahead, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw
Dec 18, 202443 min