pod.link/recodemedia
pod.link copied!
Channels with Peter Kafka
Channels with Peter Kafka
Vox Media Podcast Network

Media and tech aren’t just intersecting — they’re fully intertwined. And to understand how those worlds work, and what they mean for... more

Listen now on

Apple Podcasts
Spotify
Overcast
Podcast Addict
Pocket Casts
Castbox
Podbean
iHeartRadio
Player FM
Podcast Republic
Castro
RSS

Episodes

Twitch CEO Dan Clancy wants to hang on to the live-streaming crown

Back when I first started covering the internet, the idea of broadcasting yourself for hours on end seemed like a... more

12 Mar 2025 · 1 hour, 1 minute
Matt Belloni: what the Oscars tell us about Hollywood

We had to stop recording this one for a minute, because Matt Belloni got a text. More on that below. Big... more

05 Mar 2025 · 43 minutes
Free speech is under attack

The most useful class I ever took in college was a media law class, where I learned two things: 1)... more

26 Feb 2025 · 53 minutes
Matthew Ball: Why the games business is broken

Everyone knows that video games are giant, fast-growing business that's going to swamp traditional media. Except that's not true: The games... more

19 Feb 2025 · 38 minutes
BuzzFeed wants to build a… social network?

A decade ago BuzzFeed was the bleeding edge of digital media, and Serious People thought it was going to be... more

12 Feb 2025 · 34 minutes
Why Michael Lewis is worried about the sports betting boom

It’s hard to remember now. But just a few years ago, sports betting was illegal in almost all of United... more

05 Feb 2025 · 1 hour, 1 minute
How Silicon Valley really feels about Trump, TikTok and DeepSeek

I haven’t checked in with Jessica Lessin in some time — and I have to say I picked a pretty... more

29 Jan 2025 · 51 minutes
How TikTok (still) works

TikTok banned itself for less than a day. Now it’s back in the U.S. - despite a law that says... more

22 Jan 2025 · 40 minutes
How does Wall Street think about Trump, media and tech?

Why didn’t Meta’s stock move when Mark Zuckerberg announced his pro-MAGA pivot? Why do big media companies want to dump... more

15 Jan 2025 · 42 minutes
Why Katie Notopoulos still loves the internet

I’m a lucky man. Whenever I’m baffled by the internet, and social media, I turn to my co-worker Katie Notopoulos,... more

08 Jan 2025 · 55 minutes
Looking back, and ahead, with Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw

I don’t love a lot of year-end #content . But I do love talking to Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw every year,... more

18 Dec 2024 · 44 minutes
1440’s newsletters are short, popular and profitable

Newsletters are not a new idea. Yet every few years the media business rediscovers them, anyway — either as a... more

11 Dec 2024 · 52 minutes
Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0

You probably shouldn't know Renee DiResta's name: She's a researcher who studies online bad behavior, not a celebrity. But the... more

04 Dec 2024 · 1 hour,
How to build your own media company - without VCs or billionaires

Lots of people start media companies using money from rich people. Jason Koebler and his colleagues did it themselves, using... more

27 Nov 2024 · 54 minutes
Meet the man making money for Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly

Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Bari Weiss all used to work for big mainstream media companies. Now they’re on the... more

20 Nov 2024 · 45 minutes
Taylor Lorenz on Joe Rogan, Joe Biden and goodbye to big media.

One take you may have heard after the election: Democrats need their own Joe Rogan. Taylor Lorenz disagrees. And Lorenz is... more

13 Nov 2024 · 50 minutes
Elon Musk funds Trump — and owns Twitter. What does that mean?

You want up-to-the minute election analysis? Sorry, not on this episode. But: If you want smart thoughts about politics and media... more

06 Nov 2024 · 1 hour, 13 minutes
Pod Save America’s Jon Lovett wants to win an election and make money

Jon Lovett and his cofounders at Crooked Media are a good story - former Obama aides who started their own... more

30 Oct 2024 · 43 minutes
Emma Tucker brought fresh eyes to the Wall Street Journal

Emma Tucker became the Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief in 2023, and she’s been moving fast ever since. For starters, there are... more

23 Oct 2024 · 33 minutes
Tubi CEO Anjali Sud says you can’t beat free

What if you could watch shows and movies on a screen, for free, in exchange for watching some ads? In olden... more

16 Oct 2024 · 41 minutes
Channels with Peter Kafka
Studying online bad behavior was hard. It's going to get harder in Trump 2.0
Channels with Peter Kafka
0:00
-0:00

Listen now on

Apple Podcasts
Spotify
Overcast
Podcast Addict
Pocket Casts
Castbox
Podbean
iHeartRadio
Player FM
Podcast Republic
Castro
RSS

Description

You probably shouldn't know Renee DiResta's name: She's a researcher who studies online bad behavior, not a celebrity. But the work DiReata... more