

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.
Episodes


Splice's Steve Martocci wants to remake the music business + All things Amazon with Recode's Jason Del Rey

Chuck Klosterman on Trump, Twitter and cancel culture - and his new book

Media mogul watch at Sun Valley with Dylan Byers + Erin Lee Carr on making true crime documentaries

The Texas Tribune’s secret sauce, with Emily Ramshaw

How Roger Ailes built Fox News - and how Gabriel Sherman turned Ailes’ story into a TV show

Vimeo’s Anjali Sud shifted the company’s strategy — and became its CEO + The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson on the limits of the ‘attention economy’

New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger at the Code Conference

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki at the Code Conference
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki addresses the platform’s ongoing struggle to balance open expression with responsible content moderation. The discussion centers on the tension between maintaining a global, accessible platform and mitigating harmful content, which represents a small but significant fraction of total uploads....

Matthew Ball on Amazon vs Apple vs Netflix vs Disney, and how he built a digital media career by writing for free

ESPN’s Jimmy Pitaro on how he’s reshaping the network

YouTube’s Neal Mohan is trying to police the world’s largest video site + Game of Thrones is gone. What’s next?
YouTube balances its founding principle as an open platform with the necessity of enforcing community guidelines across 500 hours of content uploaded every minute. Machine learning classifiers and human reviewers work in tandem to identify and remove policy-violative material, such as violent extremism, before it reach...

Eugene Wei explains why we’re all ‘status monkeys’ on social media

Nick Hornby on writing for TV, 10 minutes at a time

Game of Thrones is down to its last dragon + Hulu CEO Randy Freer

Digital media pioneer Jason Hirschhorn on Netflix vs. Everyone Else

Kickstarter’s Perry Chen on 10 years and billions of dollars of crowdfunding

New York Magazine editor David Haskell on taking over after an industry legend

Why Jessi Hempel left a superstar writing career for LinkedIn

Disney enters the streaming wars + AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan
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