Ken Auletta
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How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men
Ken Auletta on how the targeted advertising of tech companies like Google and Facebook have supplanted more traditional marketing, and what this shift means for the future of data privacy. → Read More
The Rise, Reign, and Fall of W.P.P.’s Martin Sorrell
The founder and C.E.O. of the world’s largest advertising-and-marketing holding company had said, “I will stay here until they shoot me!” This past weekend, in a sense, they did. → Read More
Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta began contributing to The New Yorker in 1977 and has written the Annals of Communications since 1993. He is the author of eleven books, including “The Underclass” and five Times best-sellers: “Three Blind Mice,” “The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway,” “World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies,” “Backstory: Inside the Business of News,” and, most recently,… → Read More
The Hidden Succession News in Rupert Murdoch’s Sale of Fox Entertainment to Disney
Ken Auletta writes about the industry news surrounding Rupert Murdoch’s sale of Fox Entertainment to Disney, and how the merger will affect Murdoch’s sons James and Lachlan. → Read More
Postscript: Bill Campbell, 1940-2016
In the brief history of modern Silicon Valley, Bill Campbell, who died Monday, at the age of seventy-five, is a giant. → Read More
Postscript: Bill Campbell, 1940-2016
In the brief history of modern Silicon Valley, Bill Campbell, who died Monday, at the age of seventy-five, is a giant. → Read More
What’s New About Bill Bratton’s N.Y.P.D.?
After stop-and-frisk, Eric Garner, and tension between cops and Bill de Blasio, he wants to change how New Yorkers see the police. Ken Auletta reports. → Read More
What’s New About Bill Bratton’s N.Y.P.D.?
After stop-and-frisk, Eric Garner, and tension between cops and Bill de Blasio, he wants to change how New Yorkers see the police. Ken Auletta reports. → Read More
Why Larry Page Is Stepping Away
Larry Page announced that he will step down as C.E.O. to join Sergey Brin in ruling a new parent company, Alphabet. → Read More
Why Larry Page Is Stepping Away
Larry Page announced that he will step down as C.E.O. to join Sergey Brin in ruling a new parent company, Alphabet. → Read More
Hillary Clinton and the Historians
Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail account may have been perfectly legal, but she seems too untroubled by her role as judge and jury of what’s personal. → Read More
Brian Williams’s Crash and Tom Brokaw’s Role
Tom Brokaw played a key role in NBC’s decision last night to suspend the news anchor Brian Williams, according to two people involved. → Read More
Brian Williams’s Crash and Tom Brokaw’s Role - The New Yorker
Tom Brokaw played a key role in NBC’s decision last night to suspend the news anchor Brian Williams, according to two people involved. → Read More
Brian Williams and the God Complex
Senior NBC executives fear that Williams will fail to better explain what he did, and why his explanation last Wednesday on air was more spin than truth, to his audience. → Read More
Brian Williams and the God Complex - The New Yorker
Senior NBC executives fear that Williams will fail to better explain what he did, and why his explanation last Wednesday on air was more spin than truth, to his audience. → Read More
Brian Williams’s Mistake
Brian Williams believes that journalism is a noble calling, and he has often honored that calling. But journalists aren’t supposed to spin the truth. → Read More
Brian Williams’s Mistake - The New Yorker
Brian Williams believes that journalism is a noble calling, and he has often honored that calling. But journalists aren’t supposed to spin the truth. → Read More
Why the Media Doesn’t Want to Remember Gary Hart
The weak sales of Matt Bai’s book “All the Truth Is Out” suggest a lack of interest in revisiting the political press’s obsession with Hart’s sex life. → Read More
Why the Media Doesn’t Want to Remember Gary Hart - The New Yorker
The weak sales of Matt Bai’s book “All the Truth Is Out” suggest a lack of interest in revisiting the political press’s obsession with Hart’s sex life. → Read More
Remembering Mario Cuomo
The former governor of New York had a combination of skills rarely seen in public life, and he was incapable of faking conviction. → Read More