About Ken Auletta
Ken Auletta is currently a media columnist for The New Yorker. His “Annals of Communications” column chronicles the events and people shaping the telecommunications revolution. His writing covers communication and computer industries and the marketplace’s interaction with government regulations, mergers and acquisitions, start-ups and shutdowns. In addition to writing and serving as the correspondent for a PBS Frontline biography of Rupert Murdoch, he has been a columnist for The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Village Voice and New York magazine.
Auletta has written eight books, his latest being World War 3.0: Microsoft and its Enemies. He is a regular on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, and Nightline. Auletta’s articles have appeared in the New York Daily News, the New York Post, New York magazine, The New York Times, Esquire, and The New Republic.