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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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
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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
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NYT’s James Poniewozik on the virtual conventio...
Their thoughts on the recent DNC and RNC, and Trump's relation to the media.
52 min
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Why Desus & Mero are pandemic-proof
How they went from Twitter to podcasts to actual TV
44 min
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NYT CEO Mark Thompson on subscriptions, platfor...
How the New York Times evolved during his eight years of leadership.
54 min
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Kurt Andersen on the “Evil Geniuses” that got A...
And how we can clean it up.
45 min
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Sports are back! But for how long?
How baseball and basketball are coming back during the pandemic.
54 min
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Why your favorite writers are taking their tale...
And how the newsletter service is changing the future of the media industry.
40 min
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Hank Green on everything YouTube, Tik Tok, podc...
The life and times of a content creator
49 min
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How to run a newspaper in Hong Kong: South Chin...
And how he plans to operate it under China's new national security law.
37 min