Ken Auletta

Subscribe! Enter your email to join Ken Auletta's KattaList today! hosted by TOPICA ::Biography Download a Photo of Ken (214k) Ken Auletta has written Annals of Communications columns and profiles for The New Yorker magazine since 1992. He is the author of ten books, including four national bestsellers: Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way; Greed And Glory On Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman; The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway, and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies. were national business bestsellers. Auletta was among the first to popularize the so-called information superhighway with his February, 1993, profile of Barry Diller's search for something new. He has profiled the leading figures and companies of the Information Age, including Google, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, AOL Time Warner, John Malone, Harvey Weinstein, and the New York Times; he has dissected media meteors that fell to earth like "push" technology and inter-active TV, probed media violence, the PAC giving of communication giants, the fat lecture fees earned by journalist/pundits, and explored what "synergy" may mean to journalism. His 2001 profile of Ted Turner won a National Magazine Award as the best profile of the year. He covered the Microsoft antitrust trial for the magazine. He started in journalism as a columnist and writer for the Village Voice, was the chief political correspondent for the New York Post, and Contributing Editor of New York Magazine. He started writing for The New Yorker in 1977. Between 1977 and 1993, he wrote a weekly political column for the New York Daily News. He has hosted numerous public television programs and has appeared regularly on Nightline, the News Hour with Jim Lerher, and the Charlie Rose Show. Before insider trading scandals burst into our consciousness, Auletta captured the ethos of Wall Street in the mid eighties with Greed And Glory On Wall Street, which drew a chorus of praise and was a national bestseller. And long before the notion was in the air, Auletta's third book, The Underclass, inserted this phrase to describe the hard-core poor into our national language. His World War 3.0, prompted a media storm because of the more than ten hours of interviews Auletta conducted with the Microsoft trial judge. Auletta is working on his 11th book, exploring the future of the media. Auletta has won numerous journalism honors. He has been chosen a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library. He is on the board and executive committee of the Public Theater, and is a member of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Author's Guild, and PEN.