Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta | |
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Born | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. | April 23, 1942
Occupation(s) | writer, journalist |
Spouse | Amanda Urban |
Kenneth B. Auletta (born April 23, 1942) [1] is an American author, a political columnist for the New York Daily News,[2] and media critic for The New Yorker.
Early life and education
The son of an
Writing career
While in graduate school, Auletta taught and trained Peace Corps volunteers.[citation needed] He "got bored in a Ph.D political science program and left to be a gofer and write speeches in politics; then on to serve in government",[4] then working for then-Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign before serving as campaign manager for former Administrator of the Small Business Administration Howard J. Samuels's failed 1974 gubernatorial campaign. From 1971 to 1974, he also served as the first executive director of the now-defunct New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation under the aegis of Samuels (who was concurrently appointed as the Corporation's chairman).
After Samuels's defeat, Auletta became a daily reporter for the
Auletta started writing the "Annals of Communications" profiles for The New Yorker in 1992.[6] His 2001 profile of Ted Turner, "The Lost Tycoon", won a National Magazine Award for Profile Writing.[8] He is the author of twelve books, his first being The Streets Were Paved With Gold (1979). His other books include The Underclass (1983), Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman (1986), Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way (1991), The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway (1997), and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies (2001). His book Backstory: Inside the Business of News (2003) is a collection of his columns from The New Yorker. Five of his first 11 books were national bestsellers, including Googled: The End of the World as We Know It (2009).
In late 2014 he published a profile of
His twelfth book, Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (And Everything Else), was published in 2018. It described how advertising and marketing, with worldwide spending of up to $2 trillion, and without the subsidies of which most media, including Google and Facebook, would eventually perish, being already a victim of disruption.
He published his thirteenth book, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence, a biography of former entertainment mogul and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein, 2022.[11][12]
Auletta was among the first to popularize the idea of the so-called "
Auletta has been named a Library Lion Honoree by the
Personal life
Before October 2021, Auletta had an apartment on Lenox Hill in Manhattan with his wife, Amanda "Binky" Urban, a literary agent.[citation needed] As of 2013, the couple also owned a house in Bridgehampton, New York.[14] They have a daughter.[citation needed]
Portrayals in popular culture
On 11 September 1995, Auletta was satirized as "Ken Fellata" in The New Republic by Jacob Weisberg and later New Yorker colleague Malcolm Gladwell.[15][16][17]
Auletta is a commentator in Where's My Roy Cohn?
Works
Books
- The streets were paved with gold. 1979.
- Hard Feelings: Reporting on Pols, the Press, People, and the City. 1980.
- The underclass. New York: Random House. 1983. ISBN 9780394523439.[2]
- Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman. 1986. ISBN 9780394544106.
- Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way. New York: Random House. 1991. ISBN 9780394563589.
- The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway. 1997. ISBN 9780156005739.
- The Art of Corporate Success: The Story of Schlumberger. 2001.
- World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies. 2001. ISBN 9780375503665.
- Backstory: Inside the Business of News. 2003. ISBN 9781594200007.
- Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire. 2004.
- Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. 2009.
- Frenemies: The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else). 2018.
- Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence. Penguin Press. 2022. ISBN 9781984878373.
Essays and reporting
- "Don't Mess With Roy Cohn". Esquire. December 1978. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
- "The Pirate". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. November 13, 1995. Retrieved 2021-09-20. a Profile of Rupert Murdoch
- "The Lost Tycoon: Now he has no wife, no job, and no empire, but Ted Turner may just save the world". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. April 23, 2001. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
- "Beauty and the Beast: Harvey Weinstein has made some great movies, and a lot of enemies". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. December 16, 2002. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
- "The Howell Doctrine". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. June 10, 2002. Retrieved 2021-09-20. A profile of Howell Raines
- "Fortress Bush: How the White House keeps the press under control". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. January 19, 2004. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
- "Publish or perish : can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business?". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. 86 (10): 24–31. April 26, 2010.
- "The Networker: Afghanistan's first media mogul". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. July 5, 2010. Retrieved 2021-09-20. A profile of Saad Mohseni
- "Get Rich U.: There are no walls between Stanford and Silicon Valley. Should there be?". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. April 30, 2012. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
- "Citizens Jain: Why India's newspaper industry is thriving". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. October 8, 2012. Retrieved 2021-09-20.
- "Business outsider : can a disgraced Wall Street analyst earn trust as a journalist?". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. 89 (8): 30–37. April 8, 2013. Retrieved 2015-12-21. Henry Blodget
- "Outside the box : Netflix and the future of television". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. 89 (47): 54–61. February 3, 2014.
- "The Hillary Show : can Hillary Clinton and the media learn to get along?". Annals of Communication. The New Yorker. 90 (15): 28–34. June 2, 2014. Retrieved 2015-03-13.
- "Blood, simpler : one woman's drive to upend medical testing". Annals of Innovation. The New Yorker. 90 (40): 26–32. December 15, 2014.
- Elizabeth Holmes, CEO of Theranos
References
- ISBN 9780394500195.
- ^ a b Bernick, Michael. "Ken Auletta, The Underclass: 'A Firebell In The Night'". Forbes. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ Hechinger, Fred M. "About Education; Personal Touch Helps", The New York Times, January 1, 1980. Accessed September 20, 2009. "Lincoln, an ordinary, unselective New York City high school, is proud of a galaxy of prominent alumni, who include the playwright Arthur Miller, Representative Elizabeth Holtzman, the authors Joseph Heller and Ken Auletta, the producer Mel Brooks, the singer Neil Diamond and the songwriter Neil Sedaka."
- ^ a b c d e Benkoil, Dorian (January 16, 2007). "So What Do You Do, Ken Auletta?". mediabistro. WebMediaBrands. Archived from the original on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ "MORE FOR LESS". The New Yorker. 25 July 1977. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ a b Ken Auletta - The New Yorker
- ^ "Auletta Wins Loeb Award". The New York Times. May 9, 1986. p. D9. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ "Winners and Finalists Database | ASME". www.magazine.org. Archived from the original on 2018-10-10. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ^ The New Yorker, "Blood Simpler: One Woman's Drive to Up-End Medical Testing", December 8, 2014
- ^ Fast Company, "The reporter who exposed Theranos tells investors how to spot another Elizabeth Holmes", May 19, 2018
- ^ Business Insider, "Biographer Ken Auletta, who failed to crack the Harvey Weinstein story in 2002, says he's done 100 interviews for his book on the disgraced mogul", June 9, 2019
- ^ "The On-Sale Calendar: July 2022". Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. February 15, 2022.
Hollywood Ending by Ken Auletta (Penguin Press, $30.00; ISBN 9781984878373).
- ^ "Library Lions: Former Honorees". The New York Public Library. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
- ^ Leland, John (9 August 2013). "Strong Coffee, Weak Hitters". The New York Times.
- ^ The Auletta-Fellata vendetta, Variety, September 4, 1995
- ISBN 978-0-7425-0837-8.
- ^ Sullivan, Andrew (4 June 2002). "WHAT U-TURN?". The Dish. Andrew Sullivan. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
External links
- Ken Auletta's web site
- Ken Auletta - The New Yorker
- Oral history interview with Ken Auletta, c. 1978
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Interview with Ken Auletta, 16 July 2014, George Mason University Oral History Program
- Ken Auletta on the Muck Rack journalist listing site