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Ken Auletta

Ken Auletta began contributing to The New Yorker in 1977. His books include “ Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence ” (2022).

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16 picks · 1977–2014

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Outside the Box
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Ken Auletta on Netflix, which is changing the business of television and the nature of television shows.

Fortress Bush
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Ken Auletta writes about how George W. Bush and his Administration restricted press-corps access, and considered journalists to be increasingly irrelevant.

Vox Fox
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Ken Auletta on the birth of Fox News.

Hard Core
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ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS about Bill Gates and the Microsoft anti-trust trial brought by the federal government... Ten-part story describes the trialbefore…

The Microsoft Provocateur
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ANNALS OF COMMUNICATIONS about Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold. Nathan Myhrvold, 37, is Microsoft's chief technology officer, and Microsoft head Bill …

Promise Her the Moon
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Ken Auletta on the anchor whose versatility and charisma made her a celebrity—and ignited a bidding war.

Opening Up the Times
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Ken Auletta’s 1993 piece on Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.,’s successorship at the New York Times, and the young publisher’s endeavor to change the power structures of America’s biggest family-owned newspaper.

II-GOVERNOR
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PROFILE of Mario Cuomo, governor of New York. Tells about his first budget, presented early in 1983 to the state legislature. A combinsation of cutbacks …

I-GOVERNORS
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PROFILE of Mario Cuomo, sworn in as governor of N.Y. on Jan. 1, 1983. He is being touted as one of the Democratic Party's prospects for national …

A CERTAIN POETRY-II
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PROFILE of Jean Riboud, chairman of Schlumberger, Inc., a multinational corporation whose principal business is oil drilling. Describes Riboud's …

A CERTAIN POETRY-I
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PROFILE of Jean Riboud, chairman of Schlumberger, Inc., a multinational corporation dealing mainly with oil drilling. With assets of $16 billion, there…

III-THE UNDERCLASS
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REPORTER AT LARGE about poverty in the U.S. and the underclass. The Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., in N.Y., designed a supported-work experiment …

II- THE UNDERCLASS
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about supported-work programs for the underclass or hard-core unemployed. Writer tells about a class in life skills, given by Howard …

I-THE UNDERCLASS
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the underclass or hard-core unemployed. Few training or job programs reach them. An experiment to help, called supported work, was …

The Mayor-I
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PROFILE of Mayor Edward Koch (who became Mayor in Jan. 1978). He was the second of three children, born in the Bronx in 1924. His parents were poor Jewish …

MORE FOR LESS
a reporter at large ·

REPORTER AT LARGE about the faults of N.Y.C. employees Many of them were brought to light by the Temporary Commission on City Finances, which was appointed…