Peter Kafka
Former Senior Correspondent
Latest articles by Peter Kafka
A week after CEO Reed Hastings said Netflix was in the entertainment business, not the “truth to power business,” another exec takes a stab at it. Tldr: It’s still going to get censored.
“The consumer demand for Disney+ has exceeded our highest expectations.” Translation: Whoops.
The “Money Stuff” columnist comes to Recode Media.
Netflix used to say that Nielsen numbers were useless. Now that’s changing.
Author James Andrew Miller, who has done warts-and-all books about Saturday Night Live and ESPN, is working on his next project.
There’s a lot of #content coming your way, and you may not have to pay more to see any of it. Enjoy it while it lasts.
HBO Max will have plenty of competitors, including Netflix and Apple and Disney’s new streaming services.
Hulu, YouTube, and other companies are still trying to make it work, but digital TV bundles turn out to be a hard sell.
The limits of the platform model: Sometimes you need to pay humans to make and edit news.
Facebook’s news project will pay some publishers millions for stories they’ve already written. It’s a major shift.