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Auletta on CBS Sunday Morning

CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl talks with journalist Ken Auletta about "Hollywood Ending," his new biography of disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein (who was convicted for sexual abuse after numerous allegations), and about the film industry's culture of silence. Stahl also talks with former Weinstein assistant Rowena Chiu, who claims her boss tried to rape her.

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The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd Profiles Ken and Hollywood Ending

Maureen Dowd interviewed Ken and his wife, Amanda Urban, for this featured profile, on the occasion of his new book about Harvey Weinstein. “Mr. Auletta’s friends say it’s striking that The New Yorker writer, known to them as one of the nicest people on the planet, longtime captain of the writers’ team at the annual Writers and Artists charity softball game in the Hamptons, wanted to do a deep dive on one of the nastiest people on the planet.”

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Mike Allen in Axios Previews Ken’s New Book

Mike Allen in Axios previewed Ken’s new book, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Complicity, a deep dive into the life and career of Harvey Weinstein — how he rose to become one of the most iconic figures in the world of movies, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and why he was allowed to operate with such impunity for so many years.

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Ken and Ronan Farrow speak at University of Michigan

In early 2020, the Wallace House at the University of Michigan hosted a talk titled "The Weinstein Effect: Breaking the Stories That Spurred a Movement," in which Ronan Farrow, 2018 Livingston Award winner, and Ken Auletta, Livingston Awards national judge, discuss their individual attempts to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein and how reporters ultimately stood together in confronting one of the biggest stories in recent memory.

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Where Google Goes From Here

The New York Times asked two observers of Google to discuss its effect on the Internet and new and old media — Ken, author of “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” and Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures and an early-stage investor in many Web companies, including Twitter.

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