Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 6, 2000

Volume 29, Number 5

Ken Auletta

New Yorker columnist to visit as a Poynter Fellow

Ken Auletta, the "Annals of Communications" columnist for The New Yorker magazine since 1992 and author of eight books, including three national bestsellers, will spend a day at Yale on Thursday, Oct. 12, as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.

Auletta's new book, "World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies," will be published in January by Random House. He will spend part of his day at Yale discussing the company and its recent travails.

During his stay, Auletta will speak about the Microsoft case at a Law School forum hosted by Professor George Priest 10-11:30 a.m. in Rm. 122 of the Law School, 127 Wall St. The event is free and open to the public.

He also will appear at an English class taught by lecturer Fred Strebeigh, a member of the Poynter Committee that invited Auletta to the campus.

In addition, Auletta will be the guest at a master's tea at 4 p.m. in Silliman College, 505 College St. That event is open to the Yale community free of charge.

The Poynter Program brings distinguished journalists to Yale for a day or two of activities with students, faculty and other members of the University community. The program is designed to give students the opportunity to interact with leading figures in journalism and the media, and to ensure that the fellows leave with a richer understanding of Yale and its resources.

Auletta was among the first to popularize the so-called "information superhighway" with his February, 1993, New Yorker profile of Barry Diller. He has profiled the leading figures and companies of the Information Age including Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, John Malone and Michael Eisner. He appears regularly on "Nightline," "The Charlie Rose Show" and "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer."

His bestsellers are "Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way," "Greed and Glory On Wall Street: The Fall of The House of Lehman" and "The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway."

In 1974, Auletta was the chief political correspondent for the New York Post. Following that, he was a staff writer and weekly columnist for The Village Voice, and then a contributing editor at New York Magazine. He started writing pieces for The New Yorker in 1977. From 1977 to 1993, he wrote a weekly political column for the New York Daily News.

Auletta has been named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, and he has been selected as one of the 20th Century's top 100 business journalists by a national panel of peers. Auletta has served as a Pulitzer Prize juror, is a judge of the annual Livingston National Journalism Awards and is a trustee (and member of the executive committee) of the Public Theatre/New York Shakespeare Festival and of the Nightingale-Bamford School. He is on the PEN board, and is a member of the Author's Guild.

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