Author and media columnist for The New Yorker Ken Auletta is “the James Bond of the media world,” wrote Business Week, “a man who combines the probing mind and easy charm of a top intelligence agent with the glamour that benefits the holder of a high-profile job.” In ranking him as America’s premier media commentator, the Columbia Journalism Review concluded, “No other reporter has covered the news communication business as thoroughly.”
His award-winning “Annals of Communications” profiles have revealed, with unique intimacy, the inner-workings of such famous media personalities as Rupert Murdoch, Harvey Weinstein, Sumner Redstone, Michael Eisner, Barry Diller and Bill Gates. His profile about Ted Turner, “The Lost Tycoon,” won the National Magazine Award.
His books include four national bestsellers: Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way; Greed and Glory on Wall Street; The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway; and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies.
Auletta is a regular guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose and Nightline. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Esquire and The New Republic. He currently is working on a new book about the future of media and communications.
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Media Columnist, The New Yorker