Peter Kafka
Former Senior Correspondent
Peter Kafka covered media and technology and their intersection, which means he writes about everything from streaming TV to fights between the most powerful companies in the world to puzzling trends that may or may not be the future. Many of his stories can be found in his weekly Kafka on Media newsletter, which you can get (for free!) by signing up here. Kafka also hosts the weekly Recode Media podcast, where he discusses all of the above with people who make interesting stuff and run interesting companies; he’s also hosted two seasons of Vox’s Land of the Giants podcast series, focused on Netflix and Apple. You may also see him onstage hosting conferences from time to time.
Prior to Vox, Kafka worked at the company that used to be called All Things Digital, the company that used to be called Silicon Alley Insider, and the company that is still called Forbes. He lives in Brooklyn with his sons, and would like a legal way to stream De La Soul’s first three albums.
Latest articles by Peter Kafka
Sam Altman is back at OpenAI. What happens to its safety mission?
To find out who did, look all the way back to the start of the story.
Elon Musk and the other platform owners aren’t entirely to blame for misinformation around the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Remember when Netflix’s competitors, like Warner Bros., kept their biggest stuff on their own streaming services? That’s so 2021.
Linda Yaccarino used to sell TV advertising. Selling Elon Musk is a whole different deal.
Lachlan Murdoch will be formally in charge of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and everything else his father built and bought. For now.
Apple is going to sell us $3,500 headsets next year. It still hasn’t said why.
“A place to make fun of what you see on TV” is less compelling than “the global town square.” But it’s more accurate.
What Disney’s ESPN/Penn Entertainment tie-up tells us about sports, pop culture, and the media business.
A chat with Charlie Brooker about AI, creativity, and why tech can be like growing an extra limb.