Praise 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 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 MoreOn his podcast, The Moment, Brian Koppelman talked to Ken about his career, his life, and his new book, Frenemies.
Read MoreIf 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 MoreAuletta was invited to appear as the 2014 Terhune Journalism Lecturer at Montclair State University School of Communication and Media. Watch a video of his presentation.
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 MoreIn an interview with the Huffington Post’s Anis Shivani, Ken talks about the two and a half years of research, and extensive interviews behind his nw book, “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.”
Read MoreIn an interview with the International Journalists' Network, Auletta weighed in on the digital revolution, The Huffington Post and why he doesn’t spend as much time as he would like on social media.
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 MoreKen spoke with Charlie about Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and the future of media.
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