Ken Auletta

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010

New Yorker staff writer and journalist Ken Auletta dissects the people and institutions shaping media, for good and for ill, in a time of profound change. His new book is Backstory: Inside the Business of News.

•Music: A Civil Action Soundtrack composer Danny Elfman

Read an excerpt of Backstory in the Reading Room.

•Events: Ken Auletta will be interviewed by Tina Brown on Wednesday, January 28 at 8 pm at the 92nd St Y (details at 92NDSTY.org)

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