Join Professor Mary Murphy and New Yorker writer Ken Auletta during her “JOUR 381: Entertainment, Business and Media in Today’s Society” class.

Ken Auletta began contributing to The New Yorker in 1977 and has written the Annals of Communications since 1993. He is the author of twelve books, including The Underclass and five Times national best-sellers: Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way, Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman, The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway, World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies and Googled: The End of the World As We Know It. He has profiled the leading figures and companies of the information age, including Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Sheryl Sandberg, Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch and two former editors of the Times. His 2001 Profile of Ted Turner won a National Magazine Award as that year’s best profile. Previously, he was the chief political correspondent for the New York Post, a staff writer and weekly columnist for the Village Voice, and a contributing editor at New York magazine. Between 1977 and 1993, he was a Daily Newscolumnist. He has been a Pulitzer Prize juror, and for more than three decades a judge of the annual Livingston Awards for Young Journalists. He has been selected as a literary lion by the New York Public Library, has twice served as a board member of pen and was a trustee of the Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival. He is at work on his thirteenth book.

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