Channels with Peter Kafka

Brian Stelter on the 60 Minutes Mess; Nilay Patel on Apple’s AI Problem

Brian Stelter and Nilay Patel are both covering big, powerful institutions that are undergoing real change, whether they like it or not. Stelter, CNN’s chief media analyst, joins me to talk about the...

2026-06-10

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How Dhar Mann Turned After-School Specials Into A Billion-View Business

Dhar Mann’s videos look simple, because they are simple: Someone acts badly, someone learns a lesson, everyone gets a moral by the end. You don’t have to be a kid to enjoy these, but it helps.The busi...

2026-06-03

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Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour Explains Why Boring Data Is a Great Media Business

I think of Dow Jones as The Wall Street Journal, because that’s the part I know — and the part I used to work near/around/inside. But Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour has built a much bigger business around...

2026-05-27

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Vox Media's Jim Bankoff Explains Why He's Selling to James Murdoch

Jim Bankoff has spent nearly 20 years building Vox Media. Now he’s selling a big chunk of it to James Murdoch, who is acquiring Vox Media's Podcast Network - the same one that produces this podcast - ...

2026-05-21

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Versant CEO Mark Lazarus is Running a Post-Cable Cable Company

Versant is the new company Comcast created when it spun off CNBC, MS NOW, USA and other cable networks it no longer wanted inside the mothership. That makes Mark Lazarus’ job pretty simple to describe...

2026-05-20

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Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on AI, the Met Gala and His Secret Succession Plan

Roger Lynch has spent the last seven years trying to turn Condé Nast from a magazine company into a profitable portfolio of global brands. Now he has a new set of problems: Google traffic is disappear...

2026-05-13

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The Internet’s Let-It-Rip Era, With The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel

The internet is in its let-it-rip era: more AI slop, more video, more clips — and very little in the way of guardrails or rules. Charlie Warzel, who writes and hosts Galaxy Brain for The Atlantic, jo...

2026-05-06

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AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford

Learn to code, they told us. Then the computers went and learned to code. Now anyone can do it, in theory, courtesy of Claude Code and other vibe coding apps. Tech people I talk to are very, very exc...

2026-04-29

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Jason Blum Built a Hit-Making Movie Machine. Does It Still Work?

Jason Blum built one of Hollywood’s smartest businesses: make low-budget horror movies, give filmmakers room, pay talent on the back end, and let the hits carry the misses. It worked so well that it b...

2026-04-22

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Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Sam Altman’s Trust Problem

Sam Altman has spent years presenting himself as the face of AI: The guy warning that the technology could change everything, and the guy insisting that he should be the one to build it. Now we are fa...

2026-04-13

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What Happens When a “Succession” Writer Takes on Silicon Valley

Jonathan Glatzer has written for shows like Succession and Better Call Saul. Now he’s got his own: The Audacity, a new AMC drama set in Silicon Valley.So why make a Silicon Valley show right now — and...

2026-04-08

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Why We Need to Pay Attention to Elon Musk Again

Elon Musk has spent the last year being quieter than usual — by Elon Musk standards.That may be about to change in a very big way, as his SpaceX moves toward what could be one of the biggest IPOs in h...

2026-04-01

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Why Prediction Markets Are Turning Everything Into a Bet

Prediction markets are suddenly everywhere: in sports, in politics, in the media business — and, depending on who you ask, they’re either a useful forecasting tool or just gambling with better brandin...

2026-03-25

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How to Survive without Google: People Inc's Playbook

Lots of publishers are freaked out about “Google Zero” — the notion that one day, Google will stop sending them any traffic at all. That’s more or less already happened at People Inc., says CEO Neil ...

2026-03-18

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Matt Belloni on the Oscars, the Ellisons, and Hollywood’s Next Chapter

Oscar season is supposed to be Hollywood’s lap. It is also, increasingly, a reminder of how shaky things are in Hollywood right now. And this one comes as one of the town’s most prominent players is a...

2026-03-11

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The World’s Cup Is Coming to Trump’s America, with Roger Bennett

The World Cup is coming to the U.S (and Canada, and Mexico) in less than 100 days. Perhaps you’re an American who doesn’t care about soccer, and has given this news zero thought. That won’t be an opt...

2026-03-04

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Netflix Walks, Paramount Wins, and the Ellisons Take Hollywood

Netflix shocked the world last year by winning a deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery. This week it shocked us by walking away.In this emergency bonus episode, CNBC’s Alex Sherman walks us through the w...

2026-02-28

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Brian Stelter on the Trump Media Shakedown Era

Brian Stelter puts its clearly: "All M&A runs through the Oval Office right now.” So how much does Trump matter in the Netflix/Paramount battle for Warner Bros. Discovery — and what does he want out o...

2026-02-25

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Janice Min on Hollywood’s Crisis; Reed Duchscher on the Creator Boom

Janice Min and Reed Duchscher are both building new media companies in LA. But their perspectives are quite different: Min runs The Ankler, the trade pub that mostly focuses on the fate of Big Media c...

2026-02-18

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How Odd Lots' Joe Weisenthal Turned Curiosity Into a Career, and a Hit Podcast

If Joe Weisenthal didn’t exist, the internet would have to invent him. Because Joe Weisenthal is built for the internet — more specifically, an internet personality: Knows a lot, curious about even mo...

2026-02-11

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