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Channels with Peter Kafka — 604 episodes · page 1 of 7
Netflix in Turmoil + Derek Thompson on AI & The Antisocial Century
How to Run a Political Campaign in the TikTok Era (And How Not To)
Larry Ellison’s Media Ambitions & Kevin Roose on AI’s Biggest Gamble
David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next
Meta's New $1300 Glasses and the Fight to Control AI
AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?
The Atlantic’s CEO on AI, Billionaire Owners, and Moonlighting as a Creator
Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
The Weird, Big Business of Microdramas
The $12.5 Billion Lakers, the NFL’s TV Fight, and Sports Media’s Big Split
Joanna Stern on the New Siri, OpenAI’s Weird Gadget, and Life After the Wall Street Journal
Oliver Darcy on Status, Bari Weiss, and Why Media Reporters Are Too Soft
Lucas Shaw on Warner Bros' Limbo, Netflix's Anxiety, and Hollywood’s Sort-of Comeback
Substack Wants To Become A Social Network; Beehiiv Wants To Stay Invisible
Inside Podcasting’s Fight Over Netflix, YouTube, and Creator Control
"We’re in a Race Against Time," Joe Kahn on Running the New York Times in the Age of AI Slop
Encore: Inside Joe Weisenthal's brain
The Ad Industry's Weirdest Tradition
A Hollywood Manager Explains the New Rules of Show Biz
Brian Stelter on the 60 Minutes Mess; Nilay Patel on Apple’s AI Problem
How Dhar Mann Turned After-School Specials Into A Billion-View Business
Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour Explains Why Boring Data Is a Great Media Business
Vox Media's Jim Bankoff Explains Why He's Selling to James Murdoch
Versant CEO Mark Lazarus is Running a Post-Cable Cable Company
Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on AI, the Met Gala and His Secret Succession Plan
The Internet’s Let-It-Rip Era, With The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel
AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford
Jason Blum Built a Hit-Making Movie Machine. Does It Still Work?
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Sam Altman’s Trust Problem
What Happens When a “Succession” Writer Takes on Silicon Valley
Why We Need to Pay Attention to Elon Musk Again
Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet
How to Survive without Google: People Inc's Playbook
Matt Belloni on the Oscars, the Ellisons, and Hollywood’s Next Chapter
The World’s Cup Is Coming to Trump’s America, with Roger Bennett
Netflix Walks, Paramount Wins, and the Ellisons Take Hollywood
Brian Stelter on the Trump Media Shakedown Era
Janice Min on Hollywood’s Crisis; Reed Duchscher on the Creator Boom
How Odd Lots' Joe Weisenthal Turned Curiosity Into a Career, and a Hit Podcast
Jeff Bezos Used To Be In Love with The Washington Post. What Happened?
Who is Josh D'Amaro and Why is He Disney's New CEO?
Running a Newsroom in Minneapolis + How to Make a Game of Thrones For Less
Chuck Klosterman on Why Football Owns TV (and Why It Won’t Forever)
How to Build a Profitable Media Company in 3 years, with Semafor’s Justin Smith
Inside Bari Weiss’s Rise: LA, Sun Valley, and the Mogul Network
Craig Finn on Friendship, Fans and The Hold Steady’s Second Life
Podcast Pioneer PJ Vogt’s Second Act: Less Budget, More Control
"Neither Side Is Used to Losing." Lucas Shaw on What’s Next for Netflix and Paramount in the Battle for Warner Bros.
Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He’s a Must-Read Media Gossip.
"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw
PBS Lost a Billion Dollars. Now what? With CEO Paula Kerger
What Happens To Media When The Web Goes Away, with Tony Haile
Kevin Reilly got to the top of the TV heap. Now he's in AI.
What the Disney–YouTube Battle Tells Us About the End of Cable
The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell on Why Republicans Won the Attention War
The Man Who Fixed The New York Times Wants to Fix CNN
The End of Mass Media—and What Comes Next
The PR Guy Who Says the AI Boom Is a Bust
Why the Guardian Doesn't Need a Billionaire to Thrive
Almost Everyone is Taking Money from OpenAI. Why is Ziff Davis suing them?
The Future of Late Night TV, Jimmy Kimmel, and The First Amendment
I tried Zuckerberg's $800 Ray-Bans. Are they the future? With Alex Heath
How TBPN Made a Tech News Splash
Patch’s AI Experiment: Thousands of Newsletters, Zero Humans
Oliver Darcy Thinks the Media Doesn’t Get It. So He Built Status
Why Henry Blodget is Building Another Media Company
ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro on streaming, the NFL and sports betting
A Busy - and Expensive - Summer for AI, with NYT's Mike Isaac
Why the Algorithm is Making Comedy Boom, Again
What is TV’s endgame?
Why Trump is defunding NPR and PBS - and suing Rupert Murdoch
Inside the Rise and Fall of Condé Nast with Michael Grynbaum
Inside the NYT - and Everywhere Else - with Semafor's Max Tani
Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker on the problem with tech - and people
How to become a Substack Star with Emily Sundberg
Why did Apple ice out the most famous Apple blogger?
On the hunt for media optimism, with Semafor’s Ben Smith and The Rebooting’s Brian Morrissey
Scott Frank on Netflix, the future of Hollywood, and Dept. Q
Bluesky Wasn’t Supposed to be a Twitter Rival. Now It Is.
How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired’s Katie Drummond
Meta's Adam Mosseri explains how Instagram really works - and how he wants to build Threads
How Apple trapped itself in China
Ian Rogers tells me I need a crypto wallet
How to fight Apple and (maybe) win, with Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney
Tariffs, Trump, TikTok: What’s going to happen to ads in 2025?
Roblox CEO David Baszucki knows what your kids are doing.
How to make money in Washington, with Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman
NYT publisher AG Sulzberger on Trump, OpenAi and the economy
Trump vs The Media, Round 2, with Sara Fischer
How long can sports keep TV alive?
Inside PJ Vogt’s low budget, super successful podcast
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants to hang on to the live-streaming crown
Matt Belloni: what the Oscars tell us about Hollywood
Free speech is under attack
Matthew Ball: Why the games business is broken
BuzzFeed wants to build a… social network?
Why Michael Lewis is worried about the sports betting boom
How Silicon Valley really feels about Trump, TikTok and DeepSeek
How TikTok (still) works
How does Wall Street think about Trump, media and tech?