Peter Kafka
@pkafka
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Chief correspondent at Business Insider. Host of Channels pod, every Weds. https://t.co/aQbLRSKgmG Monkey via @andybyday. “Someone I like reluctantly.”
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Joined December 2006
Professional news: I have two jobs! Very excited to start chatting again. Sara has the backstory below. You can get tomorrow’s show - an interview with the New Yorker’s David Remnick - and every one after that, for free, by heading here
Big news for media biz: @pkafka bringing his infamous pod back to @voxmedia, rebranding it “Channels”.-He’ll remain w @BusinessInsider.-Will still be a weekly intv show.-Peter will own the show. Vox Media is production, distribution and sales partner.
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I'll engage in Mamdani Columbia application discourse but only if it includes the fact that he didn't get in - even though his father was a big deal professor there.
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RT @evanmcgarvey: Wrote something directly from the heart for @GQMagazine about dusty sly charisma king Michael Madsen and his wonderful ca….
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By 2025 standards it's a major win for Paramount: They only have to pay Trump a $16 million ransom to settle his frivolous suit. "The settlement does not include a statement of apology or regret.".
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"Even in a Justice Department that has often been pressed into serving Mr. Trump’s political agenda". When the Times does an "even in" in 2025 it's a special one.
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"His selection meant that a man who had urged violence against police officers was now responsible for the department’s official effort to exact revenge against those who had tried to hold the rioters accountable.".
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I talked to @Emily_Sundberg about running her super-buzzy and profitable Feed Me newsletter - and the balance between being the face of the product and being the product. Excerpt: Whole deal:
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RT @MikeIsaac: here is a story inside the last 6 months of Meta’s mad dash to save its AI effort. after Llama 4 disappointed, any and every….
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RT @DCCajun: Brian Stelter @brianstelter: . Journalists ask questions, vet the answers and report the results to the public. That’s pretty….
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RT @MikeIsaac: Murray is a career news guy, well aware of how the comment process works — subject is given a full readout of whats coming a….
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Weed is omnipresent in NYC. Less so in the NYT newsroom, but they're getting there. Nimble edit.
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RT @JohnPaczkowski: 2 of the top 15 TikToks about Iran this past week were AI-generated propaganda. They reached tens of millions. So we r….
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RT @jaycaspiankang: For the magazine went long on how the high price and professionalization of youth basketball/trainers/strength coaches….
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RT @Phil_Lewis_: JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail after 104 days in….
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You guys. I don't think Donald Trump - or anyone who voted for the TikTok sale-or-ban - is taking the TikTok sale-or-ban very seriously.
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RT @HenryRosoff: From @bradlander campaign:.While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by mas….
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