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
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Business News Podcast · Updated Weekly · Media and tech aren’t just intersecting — they’re fully intertwined. And to understand how those worlds work, and what they mean for you, veteran journalist...
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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RT @mingchikuo: Here are the key points regarding Meta's AI glasses, Hypernova:. 1. This device is expected to enter mass production in 3Q2….
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Let's be clear: Trump didn't take 10% of Intel because he was concerned about American dependence on Taiwan. He did it because he could. He'll use the same rationale for the next one. He's very clear about it.
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RT @JeffAgrest: I’m fascinated by the whole ESPN app story. Two great interviews with ESPN prez Jimmy Pitaro, whom I’ve always found to be….
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"There is such great new technology now, yet I am still hanging out of the cockpit shooting at drones with a shotgun.". Great WSJ story, headline: "Hunting Russian Drones in a Prop Plane with Shotguns and Rifles."
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RT @Techmeme: A journalist recounts shipping code as a vibe coding engineer during a two-day stint at Notion, working alongside engineers u….
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Lauren Goode / Wired: A journalist recounts shipping code as a vibe coding engineer during a two-day stint at Notion, working alongside engineers using AI tools like Cursor
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RT @oliviacgeorge: My latest: The White House says hundreds have been arrested amid Trump’s D.C. police takeover. But there's black hole i….
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More on cord-cutting, sports betting and how to run a media company during Trump 2.0 here:. Full chat over on Channels: .
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ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro talks about balancing streaming vs. cable, the rise of sports betting, and diversity in the Trump 2.0 era.
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ESPN is finally going to let you stream ESPN without paying for cable. But it would also like it if you kept paying for cable, says ESPN boss Jimmy Pitaro.
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RT @EmilyStewartM: I'm working on a story on prices going up for long-time customers . insurance, cable, internet, etc. If this is happen….
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Great movie, great yarn.
I had such a fun and revealing interview with Weapons director Zach Creeger and producer Roy Lee—from Lee’s first call to Creeger, leading to Barbarians, to their auction strategy for Weapons.
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Trump: David and Larry Ellison are giving me $20 million in free ads so they can buy Paramount. Ellison lawyer: "Bullshit".David Ellison: ____.
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Shari Redstone feels bad that people at CBS News are mad at her for settling a baseless suit with Donald Trump, according to a sympathetic piece in the Times. But she also thinks Trump has a point:
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Newsmax settles defamation suit, immediately complains about it in press release:
Newsmax pays $67 million to settle Dominion’s defamation suit. A Newsmax spox tells me the settlement had no requirement for apology or retraction
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RT @Lucas_Shaw: New: YouTube is making a bid for the broadcast rights to the Oscars. That would be… something.
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Can Google convince Hollywood’s most famous awards show to bail on TV networks and movie studios?
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Looking forward to this one. Really enjoyed Brian's last series on Hollywood + the Vietnam War.
The first episode of MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, my new @ringer podcast about how the George W. Bush era changed Hollywood, is out today! Episode one looks at the making of two very different films about early-2000s teen life: BRING IT ON and DONNIE DARKO:
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RT @gavinpurcell: the “digital pennies for broadcast dollars” is now “digital 45 cents to the broadcast dollar”
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