Channels with Peter Kafka

Peter Kafka

Booking Overview

This weekly interview show focuses on the business and impact of media and technology, featuring executives, founders, journalists, and industry analysts who can explain major shifts in plain language. Credible pitches include media and technology CEOs, founders of emerging platforms, senior reporters, authors, and analysts with proprietary industry insight; booking is likely high difficulty because recent guests are prominent leaders and established journalists.

Metrics

Episodes: 600

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.4/5.0

Estimated listeners: 10k-100k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

podcasting@voxmedia.com

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Host

Peter Kafka - Veteran journalist specializing in the media and technology industries.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Senior media or technology executives, founders of notable companies, established journalists, authors, and analysts with specialized industry expertise or proprietary research.

Required Achievements:

Founded or led a media, technology, or entertainment company, Held a senior reporting or editorial role at a major publication, Written a notable book or published influential industry research, Provided expertise on major media, technology, or entertainment business developments

Recent Guest Discussions

Hernan Lopez - The Size And Sustainability Of The Microdrama Market And Competition From Major Platforms.

Ali Albazaz - The Microdrama Business, Adapting Web Fiction For Video, And Ai-generated Entertainment.

John Ourand - Sports Media Rights, The Los Angeles Lakers Sale, NFL Television Negotiations, And The Distribution Of Sports Programming.

Joanna Stern - Artificial Intelligence, Consumer Technology, Emerging Devices, And Building An Independent Media Company.

Oliver Darcy - Building A Subscription Media Company, Media Industry Reporting, And Developments At Major News Organizations.

Recent Topics

Media Business, Technology, Streaming, Journalism, Sports Media

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Channels with Peter Kafka

AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?

September 16, 2026

AI companies have spent years telling us that we’ll be able to use them to go shopping for us, or book us airplane tickets, or get us awesome restaurant reservations. None of that ever materialized.But in the last few weeks, services like Instinct and Meta’s Muse have made that promise feel much less theoretical. Are they actually ready? What’s holding them back? And, crucially: Do we even want them doing this stuff for us? My pal Jason Del Rey, a longtime journalist who now writes The...

The Atlantic’s CEO on AI, Billionaire Owners, and Moonlighting as a Creator

September 11, 2026

Nicholas Thompson runs one of the few media companies that can say things are going pretty well: The Atlantic is profitable, growing, and boasts 1.6 million subscribers.But that's today. What comes next is the bulk of our conversation: Thompson — a big AI guy — tells me what The Atlantic's deal with OpenAI has and hasn't delivered, why he thinks publishers may need to make money from a web increasingly run by bots and agents, and what he thinks his actual human readers want.Also on the ...

Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel

September 02, 2026

Not long ago, most Americans had never heard of data centers. Now most Americans are actively opposed to them.It’s a head-snapping change — one that is befuddling tech bosses, and forcing some politicians to quickly change their tune.It’s the second part that I wanted to talk to David Weigel about. Weigel has been covering politics for years — he’s at Semafor now — and has a well-earned reputation for on-the-ground reporting, around the US. So I wanted his point of view on why the anti-data c...

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