On Tuesday, June 1, 2004, Mel Karmazin resigned as Viacom's President and Chief Operating Officer. On April 27, he spoke with Ken at a breakfast hosted by The Newhouse School of Public Communications, in conjunction with The New Yorker.
Read MoreFor the Los Angeles Times, Ken’s review of the books The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of American Communications, by Paul Starr, and All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information Into News by James T. Hamilton
Read MoreIn Depth, on CSPAN2, aired a three-hour interview with Ken, in which he talked about his life and his writings. He also responded to telephone calls, faxes and electronic mail from viewers. He is best known for his books and articles about journalism and the information age.
Read MoreKen Auletta has been called "America’s premier media critic." Since 1992 he’s written the "Annals of Communications" column for The New Yorker. His latest book, "Backstory" is a collection of his columns, in which Auletta examines the conflicting pull journalists and media owners face between providing a public service and corporate profits.
Read MoreHere, with The New Yorker’s Daniel Cappello, Auletta discusses the George W. Bush Administration’s relationship with the American press, how the President manages to keep reporters at a distance, and how that relationship affects the public.
Ken spoke at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs' Books for Breakfast at the Merrill House in New York, discussing his recently released book, Backstory: The Business of News.
Read MoreKen Auletta talks about Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes, Fox News, its conservative political agenda, its personnel, and its future.
Read MoreTed Turner, the founder of Cable News Network and Turner Network Television, spoke to Ken at a forum sponsored by the Newhouse School at Syracuse University.
Read MoreThe New Yorker staff writer Ken Auletta interviewed John C. Malone, the chairman of Liberty Media, whose company owns parts of five of the six largest media companies in the world, about the future of his industry and the economy.
Read MoreKen talks with Barry Diller, the chairman and C.E.O. of the Universal Entertainment Group and the head of USA Interactive.
Read MoreJack Welch, the former C.E.O. of General Electric, has been in the news lately as a result of his autobiography, which brought him an advance in excess of seven million dollars. Here, a partial transcript of a public conversation with Ken.
Read MoreKen was cross-examined by David Boies, who was the chief prosecutor in the government's antitrust suit against Microsoft, about how he reported the book, about the trial, and about what effect the decision will have, not only on Microsoft but on the entire technology industry.
Read MoreKen discussed Antitrust in the Information age with Charles James of the US Justice Department, Mario Monti of the European Commission for Competition , and Richard Parsons of AOL Time Warner)
Read MoreIn 1997, Ken wrote this piece for the magazine of the Nightingale-Bamford School in Manhattan, where his daughter was a student at the time.
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