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 Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers - and gets them to spell it out in plain, BS-free English. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

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How to Run a Political Campaign in the TikTok Era (And How Not To)
Oct 14, 2026
Most of us stopped watching traditional TV a long time ago. Political campaigns, meanwhile, still spend most of their ad money there.Rob Flaherty has been trying to change that from inside Democratic…
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Larry Ellison’s Media Ambitions & Kevin Roose on AI’s Biggest Gamble
Oct 07, 2026
Larry Ellison bought his son a media empire. What does he want from it? Vanity Fair’s Tom Dotan joins me to talk about the billionaire behind Paramount and Warner Bros., his connection to TikTok, and…
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David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next
Sep 30, 2026
David Ellison has won Warner Bros. Discovery. Now he has to figure out what, exactly, to do with it. LightShed analyst Rich Greenfield joins me to talk through the next version of the…
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Meta's New $1300 Glasses and the Fight to Control AI
Sep 23, 2026
I went to Meta’s Silicon Valley headquarters to try Mark Zuckerberg’s newest face computer: a $1,300 pair of virtual-reality glasses that are much lighter and cheaper than Apple’s Vision Pro, and…
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AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?
Sep 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…
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The Atlantic’s CEO on AI, Billionaire Owners, and Moonlighting as a Creator
Sep 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…
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Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
Sep 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…
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The Weird, Big Business of Microdramas
Aug 26, 2026
Microdramas are the new phone-first soap operas: stories chopped into dozens of one-minute episodes: Low-budget productions filled with romance, werewolves, secret babies, and cliffhangers—and…
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The $12.5 Billion Lakers, the NFL’s TV Fight, and Sports Media’s Big Split
Aug 19, 2026
Sports teams keep selling for more money because, in theory, their media rights keep becoming more valuable. But the companies that actually pay for sports TV are starting to push back. John Ourand…
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Joanna Stern on the New Siri, OpenAI’s Weird Gadget, and Life After the Wall Street Journal
Aug 12, 2026
Joanna Stern spent more than a decade explaining technology to Wall Street Journal readers. Now she’s doing it on her own — with a new media company, New Things, and a new book, I Am Not a Robot…
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Oliver Darcy on Status, Bari Weiss, and Why Media Reporters Are Too Soft
Aug 05, 2026
Two years ago, Oliver Darcy left CNN and launched Status, a paid newsletter focused on the media business. The basic bet was that readers would pay for the scoops and insider reporting he had been…
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Lucas Shaw on Warner Bros' Limbo, Netflix's Anxiety, and Hollywood’s Sort-of Comeback
Jul 29, 2026
When I last talked to Bloomberg’s Lucas Shaw, Netflix was buying Warner Bros. Discovery. Six months later, Paramount has the deal — but, surprisingly, it’s on hold while a group of states tries to…
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Substack Wants To Become A Social Network; Beehiiv Wants To Stay Invisible
Jul 22, 2026
You are a normal person, so if you think about “people writing their own newsletters” you probably think: “Substack”. But just as Xerox isn’t the only way to make photocopies, Substack doesn’t own…
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Inside Podcasting’s Fight Over Netflix, YouTube, and Creator Control
Jul 15, 2026
Chris Balfe is the CEO of Red Seat Ventures, the company behind some of the biggest names in podcasting, including Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Bill O’Reilly, and, more recently, Kill Tony. Since we…
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"We’re in a Race Against Time," Joe Kahn on Running the New York Times in the Age of AI Slop
Jul 08, 2026
Joe Kahn runs the New York Times newsroom, which means he runs the most powerful news operation in the world. He joins me to talk about what that power is for — and why he thinks the Times’ next big…
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Encore: Inside Joe Weisenthal's brain
Jul 01, 2026
We originally published this interview with Bloomberg's Joe Weisenthal on Feb. 11, 2026, and it's one of my favorite chats of the year. We'll be back with a new conversation on July 8. If Joe…
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The Ad Industry's Weirdest Tradition
Jun 24, 2026
The Rebooting's Brian Morrissey joins me from Cannes, where OpenAI is pitching advertisers, creators are becoming media brands, and thousands of people are still flying across the Atlantic to meet…
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A Hollywood Manager Explains the New Rules of Show Biz
Jun 17, 2026
Today’s show is about money, and how to make it in entertainment. The streaming boom made Hollywood feel like it had solved its money problem: Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney and everyone else wanted…
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Brian Stelter on the 60 Minutes Mess; Nilay Patel on Apple’s AI Problem
Jun 10, 2026
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…
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How Dhar Mann Turned After-School Specials Into A Billion-View Business
Jun 03, 2026
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…
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Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour Explains Why Boring Data Is a Great Media Business
May 27, 2026
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…
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Vox Media's Jim Bankoff Explains Why He's Selling to James Murdoch
May 20, 2026
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 -…
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Versant CEO Mark Lazarus is Running a Post-Cable Cable Company
May 20, 2026
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…
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Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch on AI, the Met Gala and His Secret Succession Plan
May 13, 2026
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…
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The Internet’s Let-It-Rip Era, With The Atlantic's Charlie Warzel
May 06, 2026
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…
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AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford
Apr 29, 2026
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…
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Jason Blum Built a Hit-Making Movie Machine. Does It Still Work?
Apr 22, 2026
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…
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Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on Sam Altman’s Trust Problem
Apr 13, 2026
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…
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What Happens When a “Succession” Writer Takes on Silicon Valley
Apr 08, 2026
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 —…
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Why We Need to Pay Attention to Elon Musk Again
Apr 01, 2026
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…
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