Channels with Peter Kafka

I chat with lots of media reporters. Lachlan Cartwright is a different beast: An Aussie wh... more

In 2013, Netflix wanted to become HBO. Now Netflix is going to buy HBO along with the Warn... more

The last time I interviewed PBS CEO Paula Kerger was 2019: Donald Trump was President, and... more

We built the modern media business for the web — for people who visited websites, read art... more

If you watched something on TV that you liked in the past few decades, there’s a good chan... more

It’s not unusual for a big TV network and a big TV distributor to fight about money. But t... more

In some ways, the Bulwark feels like other small publishers in 2025: it’s found growth and... more

Would you pay $7 a month to stream CNN? Because CNN CEO Mark Thompson would like you to do... more

We spend a lot of time on this show talking to people who run media companies. We also spe... more

The AI story is changing fast. A few months ago, it was all promise and inevitability. Now... more

In lots of ways Guardian Media Group is facing the same problems as every other news publi... more

In the future, digital publishers could get run over by AI. In the present, they are deepl... more

When’s the last time you stayed up to watch a late night TV monologue? Months? Years? Deca... more

A year ago I got try a pair of $10,000 computer goggles from Meta. The tech was super-impr... more

John Coogan knows what you’re thinking: the world does not need another tech podcast. And ... more

Everyone agrees that the decline/disapperance of local news is a big problem. No one agree... more

One thing about the internet is that it lets you build really, really fast. A little more ... more