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.

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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
252
Election 2020: What happens next?
With Vox's Matt Yglesias
36 min
253
Why Zeynep Tufekci saw the pandemic coming - an...
Such as the problem the media has with communicating risk.
64 min
254
Google vs The U.S. Government
Also, details on Vox’s new podcast Go For Broke with host Julia Furlan
35 min
255
ESPN’s Pablo Torre on balancing sports and poli...
Plus an update on Morning Brew
37 min
256
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
257
Is big media bouncing back from the pandemic?
How the industry has adapted in the past several months.
45 min
258
Politico editor Carrie Budoff Brown on the cha...
And the steps her team is taking to cover the upcoming election.
41 min
259
QAnon Explained with NBC's Ben Collins
How the pro-Trump conspiracy grew and its effect on the current political climate.
47 min
260
Ben Thompson explains TikTok, Trump and China
Unpacking the Tik Tok acquisition
22 min
261
Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman is building a m...
31 min
262
Baratunde Thurston wants to teach us how to be ...
And how he uses comedy to fight for social and racial injustice.
39 min
263
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
264
Why Desus & Mero are pandemic-proof
How they went from Twitter to podcasts to actual TV
44 min
265
NYT CEO Mark Thompson on subscriptions, platfor...
How the New York Times evolved during his eight years of leadership.
54 min
266
Kurt Andersen on the “Evil Geniuses” that got A...
And how we can clean it up.
45 min
267
Sports are back! But for how long?
How baseball and basketball are coming back during the pandemic.
54 min
268
Why your favorite writers are taking their tale...
And how the newsletter service is changing the future of the media industry.
40 min
269
Hank Green on everything YouTube, Tik Tok, podc...
The life and times of a content creator
49 min
270
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
271
Why Fox bet $450 million on Tubi and free strea...
And how it fits in with the likes of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.
34 min
272
How Netflix became a streaming giant
A look inside Netflix’s culture — and inside our new podcast series.
26 min
273
W. Kamau Bell wants to help you understand racism
And why this moment is different.
43 min
274
Wondery CEO Hernan Lopez wants to make the Marv...
Plus, the rise and fall of HQ Trivia with The Ringer's Alyssa Bereznak
56 min
275
Conferences were a great business — before the ...
With CEOs of Web Summit and Skift, Paddy Cosgrave and Rafat Ali
67 min