{"podcast":{"title":"Channels with Peter Kafka","slug":"channels-with-peter-kafka-487706","podcast_index_feed_id":487706,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/recodemedia","website_url":"http://podcasts.voxmedia.com/show/channels-with-peter-kafka","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/e4384094-e69c-11e8-8066-d3e055e78c28/image/c9e40c7e1baaea55eee29ba9541579b7.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Vox Media Podcast Network","episode_count":598,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-02T20:20:06.224097+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/channels-with-peter-kafka-487706"},"episode":{"title":"Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour Explains Why Boring Data Is a Great Media Business","slug":"dow-jones-ceo-almar-latour-explains-why-boring-data-is-a-great-media-business","published_at":"2026-05-27T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/channels-with-peter-kafka-487706/dow-jones-ceo-almar-latour-explains-why-boring-data-is-a-great-media-business","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/channels-with-peter-kafka-487706","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP2782330530.mp3?updated=1779840747","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/257/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP2782330530.mp3?updated=1779840747","summary":"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 around the Journal: risk and compliance, energy data, Factiva, AI deals, and other stuff that sounds boring until you realize how much money companies will pay for it. So I asked Latour to explain why Dow Jones is doing well while so many other media companies are struggling, howEmma Tucker, the Wall Street Journal's editor-in-chief, is changing the Journal, what he’s trying to do with AI, and what it’s like to run a Murdoch-owned newsroom that covers Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2805,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/channels-with-peter-kafka-487706/episodes/dow-jones-ceo-almar-latour-explains-why-boring-data-is-a-great-media-business/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/channels-with-peter-kafka-487706/dow-jones-ceo-almar-latour-explains-why-boring-data-is-a-great-media-business.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}