Asked by the New York Times, "What book had the greatest impact on you?" former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin cited Ken's 1982 work The Underclass.
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Anna Quindlen, author and Livingston Awards judge from 2009 to 2022, presented Auletta with the award and introduced a video with tributes from his fellow Livingston Award judges and past Livingston award winners.
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On March 23, 2023, Ken, along with Robert Caro, Gay Talese, and several others, was inducted into the New York Journalism Hall of Fame by the Society of Professional Journalists. The honor was bestowed at a midtown luncheon hosted by the Deadline Club of New York.
Read MoreHollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence was listed among the top books of 2022 by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Esquire
Read MorePraise for Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence, from The New Yorker, Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, Kirkus, and more.
Read MoreIn this episode of Influencers, Andy Serwer sits down with Hollywood Ending author Ken Auletta to discuss his book on Harvey Weinstein, Ken's career in journalism, and the future of media.
Read MoreCBS 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.
Read MoreMaureen 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.”
Read MoreMike 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.
Read MoreIn an episode of the Bad Blood podcast, Ken is interviewed by host John Carreyrou, the Wall Street Journal reporter who brilliantly dethroned Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos — and who credits Auletta with asking the tough questions that triggered his interest and would eventually expose her as a fraud.
Read MoreEven the Rich podcast co-hosts Brooke Siffrinn and Aricia Skidmore-William “thought we knew everything about the Murdochs. Then we met Ken Auletta. He's one of the best media reporters in the biz — four decades at The New Yorker, a handful of bestsellers under his belt, and quite a few encounters with the Murdochs along the way. He tells us what the family is like up close, and what the future holds for their diminished empire.”
Read MoreIn 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.
Read MoreIn the latest edition of Math & Magic, the marketing-focused podcast hosted by iHeartMedia Chairman and CEO Bob Pittman, the Brooklyn-born Ken Auletta, who grew up with dreams of being a baseball player but ended up twice working for Robert F. Kennedy, takes a crack at what these titans have in common.
Read MoreWhile the allegations against Harvey Weinstein were finally made public in October 2017, whispers of Weinstein’s alleged abuse go back decades. And so does the reporting on it. In this episode, Ronan Farrow looks at the small but dogged community of journalists who spent years trying to break the story open, including Ken.
Read MoreThe Society of the Silurians, an organization of veteran journalists, honored Ken with their Lifetime Achievement Award on November 19th, 2018. Here are the remarks he made accepting the award.
Read MoreThe Society of the Silurians, honored Ken with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Ken has written for The New Yorker since 1977, and so the Silurians asked that magazine’s editor to reminisce.
Read MoreOn his podcast, The Moment, Brian Koppelman talked to Ken about his career, his life, and his new book, Frenemies.
Read MoreThe Introduction to Ken’s new book, Frenemies : The Epic Disruption of the Ad Business (and Everything Else)
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