Ken Auletta

The New Yorker's Ken Auletta Talks about Google, Facebook, and the Future of Content

Anis Shivani | Posted 02.09.2012

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Ken Auletta has constructed probably the best narrative yet about Google's rise and rise. But to what extent is the company in control of its destiny?

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Top New Yorker Writer's Email Account Hacked

Adweek | Gabriel Beltrone | Posted 06.18.2011

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Ken Auletta, author of best-selling book Googled and venerable media columnist for The New Yorker, fell victim to a common digital crime Monday mornin...

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AOL's 'Dirty Little Secret': 60% Of AOL's Profits Come From Misinformed Customers

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: This post originally assumed that all of AOL's subscribers received dial-up. According to AOL's corporate communication office, there are var...

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Candace Bushnell Parties in the Hamptons With Alec Baldwin and More

The Daily Truffle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roger Waters, Katie Lee Joel, Jay McInerney, Alec Baldwin, Books, Ken Auletta, Candace Bushnell, Los Angeles News

It's a smorgasbord of over 100 writers at the East Hampton library who patiently sign copies of their newest novels at the 5th Annual Authors Night...

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Thank God I'm Not In Sun Valley!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ken Auletta, Herb Allen, Sun Valley, Moguls, Media News

This week was mogul fest in Sun Valley. Of course, I wasn't invited. But just the thought of it gave me a welcome shiver in all this heat. There are people who fight for an invitation to the thing. Me, I'd rather be stabbed in the head.

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The Atlantic's Vision Of The Future Of Books

The Millions | Lizzie Skurnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Short Stories, Fiction, Atlantic Fiction, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Book Publishing, The Atlantic, Future of Publishing, Books, Future of Books, Ken Auletta, Ipad, Amazon, Books News

The cover of Fiction 2010 offers, to say the least, a provocative vision. To our left glides a gentleman in pegged red pants holding an honest-to-God-...

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Why Doesn't Ken Auletta Want My Money? (the Case for Selling Books by the Chapter)

David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ken Auletta recently noted, without any apparent evidence to support his claim, "no one, with the possible exception of students, will want to buy a single chapter of most books."

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Ken Auletta's Google Book Blackballed By Chinese Government

AP | CARA ANNA | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIJING — A writer for The New Yorker will not promote his new book about Google during a China visit after being warned the media are restricte...

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Martha Stewart's Kindle: What Is She Reading?

Posted 05.25.2011

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Martha Stewart answered 20 questions for the Financial Times on Thursday, and in one of the questions, Stewart dished on what she's reading right now:...

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Knowing Know-It-Alls

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Steven Colbert, Rachel Maddow, Richard Nixon, Jon Stewart, Dick Morris, Winston Churchill, Hillary Clinton, Caesar, Bullwinkle, God, Condi Rice, Ken Auletta, Dick Cheney, Jim Cramer, Keith Olberman, Relationships, Video, Healthy Living News

The know-it-alls in our lives have read and listened to the entire Western Canon yet still find the time to go to every new restaurant, club and museum exhibit.

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Ken Auletta; 10 Things Google Has Taught Us

Fortune | Ken Auletta, Contributor | Posted 05.25.2011

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In researching his new book, Googled: the End of the World as We Know It, to be published next week by Penguin Press, author Ken Auletta had extensiv...

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Ken Auletta "The Best Media Writer Around": Critic

MarketWatch | Jon Friedman, MarketWatch | Posted 05.25.2011

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I'll get this out of the way right now: Ken Auletta is the best media writer around. In fact, nobody really comes close. ...

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Ken Auletta's Google Book: Eric Schmit Wants To Build "$100 Billion Media Company"

TechCrunch | Posted 05.25.2011

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Googled is not published yet, but I managed to get my hands on a copy of the uncorrected proofs. One of the most startling assertions Auletta makes ri...

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Making Money In Yogaland

Lee Schneider | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Bhakti-Yoga, Spectrum Gym, Google, Yoga, Itunes, Crunch Gym, Twitter, Yogaco, Netflix, Yogis, Ken Auletta, Walter Isaacson, Healthy Living News

Yogaworks has opened a new studio in New York, at the corner of Broadway and Grand Street. It's got bamboo floors and showers with impressive pressure. The only thing missing? People.

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Ken Auletta: Google Staff Lacks "Emotional Intelligence"

WWD | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New Yorker's Ken Auletta, interviewed onstage by The New York Times' David Carr, talked about what he'd learned reporting his recent book on Googl...

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Googled: An Excerpt From Ken Auletta's New Book

Posted 05.25.2011

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Googled by Ken Auletta On a sunny July afternoon in Sun Valley, three friends who had competed and cooperated for a quarter century -- Robert Iger,...

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Ken Auletta Has Done It Again

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ken Auletta has written another enlightening book that explains what's going on in the media: Googled: The End of the World as We Know It. If you want to understand the new world, buy it and read it.

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Google, Group Polarization, and Jon Stewart

Charles Warner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today wing nuts can easily go on Google and create their own hate-filled echo chamber. Therefore, Google, the king of search, is unintentionally aiding in group polarization.

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Fall 2009 Book Preview: Publishers Bring Out The Big Guns

WSJ | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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This season, many publishers are counting on star-studded fall catalogues to turn around a dismal year. Battered by the drop in consumer spending, mo...

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Google CEO: "Moral Imperative" To Help Newspapers

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.25.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday that the Internet search leader hopes its recently acquired advertising ...

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Disney's Bob Iger Explains Why ABC Passed On CNN Outsourcing, Why Media Concentration Is "A Joke"

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 05.25.2011

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Disney President and CEO Bob Iger said this morning that ABC News decided against partnering with CNN years ago because they were interested in a "tru...

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New Yorker And The Newhouse School Host Panel On The Internet And Presidential Politics

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.25.2011

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The highlight of the discussion came midway in, when the panelists were tossing around ideas as to why the Republican Party is so much less internet savvy than their Democratic counterparts.

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