Peter Kafka

Chief correspondent at Business Insider. Host of Channels pod, every Weds. Monkey via @andybyday. “Someone I like reluctantly.”

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

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 https://t.co/wbUHQ8T4XP

[Sara Fischer @sarafischer]

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
https://t.co/BdIA7HReD2

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

@PeterHamby Name and a link: that's the maximum!

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

You live in TikTok time.

Political campaigns? Still on TV: They will invest majority of this cycle's $12 b ad spend on broadcast and cable. In 2026!

Digital politics pro @Rob_Flaherty explains.

Words on BI: https://t.co/ZvZgBXO5nI

Full Channels chat: https://t.co/ltIMBBywIA

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

I asked @Lucas_Shaw about Netflix getting new content leadership in July. Fun to revisit now. https://t.co/capCgT4ghk

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

This also underlines a troubling question many had about Netflix's pursuit of HBO and Warners last year: If you think your content is great, why spend a gazillion on new content people?

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

Netflix has spent the last year telling everyone that its content is great no matter what all the chatterers say.

Now their head of content is out.

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

Netflix has spent the last year telling everyone that its content is great no matter what all the chatterers say.

Now their head of content is out.

[Matthew Belloni @MattBelloni]

Big news: Bela Bajaria, Netflix's chief content officer since 2023, is leaving the company. Her replacement is a familiar name in Hollywood. Details ⬇️⬇️ https://t.co/St1IqkCfwJ

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

Really excellent reporting.

[Max Chafkin @chafkin]

My fave part of this @AustinCarr story is the evidently complicated relationship Marc Andreessen has with being from Wisconsin (gift link) https://t.co/cwQGU7NwOy

[Will Leitch @williamfleitch]

For @washingtonpost, I wrote about Nathan Fielder's and Lance Oppenheim's "You Can See Everything," which is about Elizabeth Holmes, but is really about the chasm between actual truth and emotional truth, which in many ways is the story of our time. https://t.co/it55zNJpOf

[Ian Schafer @ischafer]

THE ENTERTAINMENT WE PASS THE TIME WITH HAS BECOME AS VALUABLE AS THE ENTERTAINMENT WE MAKE THE TIME FOR

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

@ArneKuilman That's a secret! Lucky for you it's revealed in the story.

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

The good news for Netflix is they had big growth problems in 2022 - when they actually lost customers - and then bounced back.

The bad news is that's not 2022, and they are facing foes much stronger than Disney, Paramount et al.

https://t.co/bFBiZ02aEV

[Matthew Herper @matthewherper]

Terrible, terrible terrible news.

We're bereft to lose @HelenBranswell. She was precise, fair, and prescient, and the world is poorer without her.

Helen Branswell, whose reporting on infectious diseases and public health drew acclaim, dies at 69 https://t.co/1J2TDo8bp4

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

Weird! Because the Trump Administration is a big proponent of online sports betting services Kalshi and Polymarket.

Unless:

[Jon Schweppe 🇺🇸 @JonSchweppe]

Breaking news from @jstein_sun at the Washington Sun this morning: the FTC is starting to look into the online sports betting industry.

https://t.co/BnfQvacAjE

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

RT @BenMullin: NEWS: The Justice Department is investigating whether CNN, Fox News, MS NOW, CBS, ABC and NBC violated antitrust law by susp…

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

@DylanByers Somebody needs to save Showtime tho

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

Yesterday OpenAI had lost $20 billion in theoretical revenue but today they've found it again so no need to worry, nothing to see here.

https://t.co/lJsrBLTOWq

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

The Microdrama guys are spending as much as 75% of their ad budgets with Meta. They're also uploading ads - clips of their shows - that run as long as 20 minutes.

Pretty great for Mark and team: Ad dollars and free content. W/ @lmoses

https://t.co/KrUtBT0ZiK

[Bryan Curtis @bryancurtis]

I'm writing a new Substack for the Ringer.

It's about the media.

It's called Now They Tell Us.

And it's free. You can sign up here.
https://t.co/cJjUDzsRXg

[Dana Mattioli @DanaMattioli]

Kimberly Guilfoyle was preparing for her congressional hearing to become U.S. ambassador to Greece when she reached out to a Trump donor with an urgent request: She needed $100,000 that she said she owed American Express—in a way that wouldn’t leave a paper trail.

“It won’t show up anywhere if you wire money to American Express,” she wrote on Signal, according to messages reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Please.”

Read story w/ dream team: @rebeccaballhaus @drewhinshaw @JoeWSJ https://t.co/azqNb3jxAK

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

Talked to @kevinroose who thinks there's a 10% chance of an AI apocalypse. That makes him an AI *optimist*.

Words at BI: https://t.co/BDPSd6isXD

Pod at Channels: https://t.co/BDPSd6isXD

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

@flankspeed_ @cityofthetown That is indeed David Ellison's argument

[Peter Kafka @pkafka]

David Ellison is the CEO of Skydance because his father Larry gave him billions to build a media empire.

But until very recently, Larry Ellison was not interested in the media biz. What changed?

@cityofthetown explains on Channels: https://t.co/uyQw0ASoZz