Primary Job Title Senior Editor, Media Primary Organization 
Recode
Location New York, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
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Peter Kafka has been covering media and technology since 1997, when he joined the staff of Forbes magazine. He made the digital leap to Forbes.com in 2005. He may have been the first national business reporter to interview Steve “Stone Cold Steve Austin” Williams.
In 2007, Peter became the first hire at Silicon Alley Insider, the predecessor to
Business Insider, where he worked as the site’s managing editor.
He began writing for AllThingsD.com in 2008. In 2011, he began producing and hosting the D: Dive into Media conferences; he will continue to work on other live events for Re/code.
Peter is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lives in Brooklyn.
