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.
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How Jessica Lessin got people to pay for The In...
What she’s learned, what she thinks about Substack, and her concerns about tech leaders’ attempts to end-run journalists..
39 min
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Trump vs the Press - a final report card from J...
Plus: Figure Four Online/Wrestling Observer’s Bryan Alvarez on Apple's potential venture into podcast subscriptions.
48 min
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What the Capitol Riot tells us about online power
NYT's Kevin Roose on big tech's power and responsibility following the events, and NBC's Ben Collins on what this means for Qanon moving forward.
46 min
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Behind the making of The Dissident, the movie a...
Director Bryan Fogel gives details behind why he wanted to tell this story, following his last film, Icarus.
40 min
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Zach Seward started Quartz, sold it, and bought...
Details on the future of the publication, now that it is back under his management.
41 min
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Kemp Powers spent years breaking into Hollywood...
Details on how he got to this point into career, as well as his info on his second movie, One Night In Miami, directed by Regina King.
41 min
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Trump is leaving; Trump media isn't
Plus, the FTC vs. Facebook with Mike Isaac
60 min
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Behind the scenes with Queen’s Gambit creator S...
How a show about chess became one of 2020's biggest hits.
56 min
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Eli Pariser wants to build a better Facebook
And how he feels about the "filter bubble" in 2020
37 min
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Gimlet’s Lydia Polgreen wants to shake up podca...
How she plans to do so, and how she's been adjusting since joining the company earlier in the year.
42 min
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BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti explains his HuffPost ...
And his plans for how he intends to run both companies.
26 min
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ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish on Paramount+, Pluto TV
Recorded live from Code Media @ Home.
30 min
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Fox and the New York Times face the end of the ...
With New York Magazine's Reeves Wiedeman and NPR's David Folkenflik.
61 min
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NY Mag's Olivia Nuzzi takes us inside Trumpworl...
Details on her coverage of the election, and her thoughts of what the future holds.
41 min
240
Election 2020: What happens next?
With Vox's Matt Yglesias
36 min
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Why Zeynep Tufekci saw the pandemic coming - an...
Such as the problem the media has with communicating risk.
64 min
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Google vs The U.S. Government
Also, details on Vox’s new podcast Go For Broke with host Julia Furlan
35 min
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ESPN’s Pablo Torre on balancing sports and poli...
Plus an update on Morning Brew
37 min
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Congress comes for big tech; Axios thrives in t...
Details on the new Congressional report on antitrust, and how Axios has been reporting on the current presidency.
62 min
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Is big media bouncing back from the pandemic?
How the industry has adapted in the past several months.
45 min
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Politico editor Carrie Budoff Brown on the cha...
And the steps her team is taking to cover the upcoming election.
41 min
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QAnon Explained with NBC's Ben Collins
How the pro-Trump conspiracy grew and its effect on the current political climate.
47 min
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Ben Thompson explains TikTok, Trump and China
Unpacking the Tik Tok acquisition
22 min
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Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman is building a m...
31 min
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Baratunde Thurston wants to teach us how to be ...
And how he uses comedy to fight for social and racial injustice.
39 min