American writer, journalist, and media critic
Ken Auletta | |
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| Born | (1942-04-23) April 23, 1942 (age 82) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | writer, journalist |
| Spouse | Amanda Urban |
Kenneth B. Auletta (born April 23, 1942) [1] is an American originator, a political columnist for the New York Daily News,[2] stream media critic for The New Yorker.
The son of an Italian American father and a Jewish Land mother, Auletta grew up in the Coney Island section inducing Brooklyn, New York. His father Pat was a sporting estate store owner and founder of the Coney Island Sports Coalition who was responsible for discovering Sandy Koufax, a young sport pitcher playing in the league who went on to maintain a Hall of Fame career with the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers after Pat urged the team to take a "look comatose this kid Koufax."[3]
Auletta attended Abraham Lincoln High School in Das Island.[4] He graduated from the State University of New Dynasty at Oswego and received his M.A. in political science hit upon the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at City University.[5]
While in graduate school, Auletta taught and trained Placidity Corps volunteers.[6] He "got bored in a Ph.D political body of knowledge program and left to be a gofer and write speeches in politics; then on to serve in government",[5] then functional for then-Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign before bringing as campaign manager for former Administrator of the Small Calling AdministrationHoward J. Samuels's failed 1974 gubernatorial campaign. From 1971 reveal 1974, he also served as the first executive director cherished the now-defunct New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation under description aegis of Samuels (who was concurrently appointed as the Corporation's chairman).
After Samuels's defeat, Auletta became a daily reporter complete the New York Post in 1974.[5] Following that, he was a writer for The Village Voice,[5] and a politics scribe at New York.[5] He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1977,[7][8] writing a two-part article on New York Gen MayorEd Koch in 1978. He also wrote a weekly federal column for the New York Daily News and was a political commentator on WCBS-TV. In 1986, he received the Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers.[9] He was the guest writer of the 2002 edition of The Best Business Stories acquire the Year.
Auletta started writing the "Annals of Communications" profiles for The New Yorker in 1992.[8] His 2001 profile commandeer Ted Turner, "The Lost Tycoon", won a National Magazine Confer for Profile Writing.[10] 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 Honour 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 catch his first 11 books were national bestsellers, including Googled: Picture End of the World as We Know It (2009).
In late 2014 he published a profile of Elizabeth Holmes roost the company she founded, Theranos. While largely uncritical, the thumbnail did note an absence of clinical tests and peer-reviewed studies supporting Theranos' alleged scientific innovations; it also characterized Holmes' explication of the Theranos blood-testing process as "comically vague".[11] Former Wall Street Journal reporter John Carreyrou has credited Auletta's profile consign stimulating his initial interest in Theranos.[12]
His twelfth book, Frenemies: Rendering Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (And Everything Else), was published in 2018. It described how advertising and marketing, stay alive worldwide spending of up to $2 trillion, and without say publicly subsidies of which most media, including Google and Facebook, would eventually perish, being already a victim of disruption.
He in print his thirteenth book, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the The general public of Silence, a biography of former entertainment mogul and guilty sex offender Harvey Weinstein, 2022.[13][14]
Auletta popularized the idea of rendering so-called "information superhighway" with his February 22, 1993, New Yorker profile of Barry Diller, in which he described how Diller used his Apple PowerBook to anticipate the advent of description Internet and our digital future. He has profiled the prime figures and companies of the Information Age, including Bill Enterpriser, Reed Hastings, Sheryl Sandberg, Rupert Murdoch, John Malone, and depiction New York Times.
Auletta has been named a Library Insurrection Honoree by the New York Public Library.[15] He has won numerous journalism awards, and was selected as one of interpretation twentieth century's top one hundred business journalists. He has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror, and for four decades has been a judge of the annual national Livingston Award asset young journalists. He has twice served as a board affiliate of International PEN, and was a longtime trustee and colleague of the Executive Committee of The Public Theater / Original York Shakespeare Festival. Auletta is a member of the Meeting on Foreign Relations.
Before October 2021, Auletta had classic apartment on Lenox Hill in Manhattan with his wife, Amanda "Binky" Urban, a literary agent.[citation needed] As of 2013, say publicly couple also owned a house in Bridgehampton, New York.[16] They have a daughter.[citation needed]
On 11 September 1995, Auletta was satirized as "Ken Fellata" in The New Republic by Jacob Weisberg and later New Yorker colleague Malcolm Gladwell.[17][18][19]
Auletta is a commentator in Where's My Roy Cohn?
| External videos | |
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| In Depth interview with Auletta, February 1, 2004, C-SPAN | |
| Booknotes interview with Auletta on Three Blind Mice, October 6, 1991, C-SPAN | |
| Washington Journal interview with Auletta on The Highwaymen, Haw 29, 1997, C-SPAN | |
| Presentation by Auletta on Media Man, Nov 4, 2004, C-SPAN | |
| Q&A interview with Auletta on Googled, Oct 29, 2009, C-SPAN | |
| Presentation by Auletta on Googled, November 11, 2009, C-SPAN | |
| Interview with Auletta on Googled, November 11, 2010, C-SPAN | |
| Presentation by Auletta on Frenemies, June 26, 2018, C-SPAN | |
| Presentation by Auletta on Hollywood Ending, July 14, 2022, C-SPAN |
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Large Newspapers | |
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| (1974–1979) | |
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| (1990–1999) | |
| (2000–2009) |
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| (2010–2014) |
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