If president-elect Donald Trump learned anything from his mentor Roy Cohn, it was this: punch first and never apologize. Esquire Podcast host David Brancaccio talked to Ken about his searing 1978 profile of Cohn, and how Cohn’s unrelenting cruelty and drive helped shape the man who will now lead the country.
Read MoreOn New Yorker Out Loud podcast, Auletta discussed the strategies he used to report the story on why Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the Times, was abruptly fired.
Read MoreWith Michael Bloomberg’s twelve-year term as mayor coming to an end, Ken Auletta and Ben McGrath spoke on the New Yorker’s Political Scene podcast about his time in office and the mark he has left on New York City.
Read MoreAuletta, who is joined on the New Yorker podcast by John Cassidy and Lauren Collins, calls the News Corp. pone-hacking developments a threat to the Murdoch family’s “whole notion of political invincibility.”
Read MoreThe Newhouse School hosted a conversation between Ken Auletta, Lorne Michaels, and Seth Meyers.
Read MoreIn his new book, Auletta tracks the development of Google from a search engine to the provider of all things Internet. Auletta tells Terry Gross that although the company trumpets free access to information, it is notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to its own formula for success.
Read MoreKen Auletta interviewed news broadcast legends Barbara Walters and Steve Kroft at a breakfast sponsored by the Newhouse School and The New Yorker.
Read MoreKen Auletta interviewed the editors of the Conde Nast magazines Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker at a breakfast sponsored by the Newhouse School and The New Yorker. Here he is with Anna Wintour, Graydon Carter, and David Remnick
Read MoreTo probe the performance of the press in the presidential campaign, Ken Auletta interviewed two former presidential candidates, Bob Kerrey and Gary Hart, at a breakfast sponsored by the Newhouse School and The New Yorker.
Read MoreKen Auletta interviewed Eric Schmidt, the chairman and C.E.O. of Google, in San Francisco, at a breakfast sponsored by the Newhouse School and The New Yorker.
Read MoreKen interviewed Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products for Google, and Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's former chief strategist. Topics discussed included Google, YouTube, and the future of copyright law, movie theatres, and newspapers.
Read MoreKen talked to NBA commissioner David Stern, Sports Illustrated managing editor Terry McDonnell, and ESPN president George Bodenheimer.
Read MoreKen interviewed Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons at a breakfast sponsored by the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker.
Read MoreKen interviewed a panel of bloggers at a breakfast sponsored by the Newhouse School and The New Yorker. Panelists included Jason Calacanis, co-founder of Weblogs, Inc.; Ana Marie Cox, editor of Wonkette.com; and Kenneth Lerer, co-founder of HuffingtonPost.com
Read MoreThe writer-director David Chase, creator of HBO's The Sopranos, spoke to Ken at a breakfast sponsored by the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and The New Yorker.
Read MoreRoger Ailes, President and CEO of Fox News, spoke with New Yorker writer Ken Auletta at a breakfast hosted by the Newhouse School of Public Communications, in conjunction with The New Yorker. Here is that conversation.
Read MoreStewart, comedian and host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show spoke with New Yorker writer Ken Auletta about the upcoming elections, the state of television journalism, and America (The Book). The talk was hosted by the Newhouse School of Public Communications, in conjunction with The New Yorker.
Read MoreKen moderated a panel discussion with Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings, and Dan Rather in the Celeste Bartos Forum of The New York Public Library. The conversation was part of the sixth annual New Yorker Festival.
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