Ken Auletta
Media critic and author
Ken Auletta is an American author and media critic who writes the Annals of Communications column for The New Yorker.
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American Born 1942 in Brooklyn, United States
About Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta was born on April 23, 1942, and grew up on Coney Island in Brooklyn. He studied at the State University College at Oswego, New York, and later earned a master's degree in political science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He writes the Annals of Communications column for The New Yorker. Among his books are Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way and World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies. Googled: The End of the World as We Know It was a New York Times best seller. Auletta has also served as a Pulitzer Prize juror and as a national judge of the Livingston Awards for young journalists.