Ken Auletta

Ken Auletta began contributing to The New Yorker in 1977 and launched the Annals of Communications in 1992. His books include “The Underclass,” “The Streets Were Paved with Gold: The Decline of New York, an American Tragedy,” “Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence,” and five Times national best-sellers: “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 Superhighway,” “World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies,” and “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It.” He has profiled the leading figures and companies of the information age, including Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Sheryl Sandberg, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, and three editors and the publisher of the New York Times. His 2001 profile of Ted Turner won a National Magazine Award.

Previously, before Rupert Murdoch purchased the New York Post, Auletta was the paper’s chief political correspondent; he has also been a staff writer and a weekly columnist for the Village Voice, and a contributing editor at New York magazine. In addition to writing for the New Yorker, between 1977 and 1993 he was a Daily News columnist and a political commentator on WCBS-TV. He has been a Pulitzer Prize juror and, for four decades, he served as a national judge of the annual Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. He has been selected as a Library Lion by the New York Public Library, has twice served as a board member of PEN, and was a trustee of the Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival.