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.

Business News
Technology
TV & Film
1
Why the Algorithm is Making Comedy Boom, Again
55 min
2
What is TV’s endgame?
43 min
3
Why Trump is defunding NPR and PBS - and suing...
32 min
4
Inside the Rise and Fall of Condé Nast with Mic...
44 min
5
Inside the NYT - and Everywhere Else - with Sem...
44 min
6
Black Mirror's Charlie Brooker on the problem w...
41 min
7
How to become a Substack Star with Emily Sundberg
43 min
8
Why did Apple ice out the most famous Apple blo...
61 min
9
On the hunt for media optimism, with Semafor’s ...
25 min
10
Scott Frank on Netflix, the future of Hollywood...
40 min
11
Bluesky Wasn’t Supposed to be a Twitter Rival. ...
33 min
12
How to Reinvent a Magazine, with Wired’s Katie ...
44 min
13
Meta's Adam Mosseri explains how Instagram real...
55 min
14
How Apple trapped itself in China
64 min
15
Ian Rogers tells me I need a crypto wallet
61 min
16
How to fight Apple and (maybe) win, with Epic G...
30 min
17
Tariffs, Trump, TikTok: What’s going to happen ...
51 min
18
Roblox CEO David Baszucki knows what your kids ...
40 min
19
How to make money in Washington, with Punchbowl...
36 min
20
NYT publisher AG Sulzberger on Trump, OpenAi an...
61 min
21
Trump vs The Media, Round 2, with Sara Fischer
42 min
22
How long can sports keep TV alive?
40 min
23
Inside PJ Vogt’s low budget, super successful p...
62 min
24
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants to hang on to the l...
57 min
25
Matt Belloni: what the Oscars tell us about Hol...
36 min