Ken Auletta
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What's Next For David Gregory? - Posted July 23, 2008
The NYObserver's Felix Gillette takes a moment from Sunday's Meet the Press, and ponders whether David Gregory has become NBC's "lame duck." Gillette observes that Gregory, NBC's long-serving White House correspondent, may not be doing himself any favors by anchoring MSNBC's Race for the White House if his true aspiration is... [TVNewser]
The Who's Who of Media at Sun Valley - Posted July 8, 2008
Dan Cox, on special assignment for FishbowlLA, covering the 2008 Sun Valley Media Conference.
Though Allen & Company are extremely tight-lipped about everything of interest at the Sun Valley Media Conference, a few small bits and pieces are leaking out on the first day.
A list of attendees surfaced and included such... [FishBowlLA]
Rupe Street Journal To Give Howard Rubenstein More Friends - Posted July 20, 2007
So who, aside from Rupert Murdoch and some Dow Jones stockholders, is going to benefit most from a Rupe Street Journal? How about Howard Rubenstein, Murdoch's PR powerbroker, and his clients? The New Yorker's Ken Auletta, via Beet.TV:
Howard Rubenstein has ties to many public officials and clients that are important to... [FishBowlNY]
CNBC To Re-Air Auletta-Moonves 'Sexist' Interview - Posted June 15, 2007
Does 'tart' imply female?
Not sure how relevant the discussion will look six days later, but CNBC plans to run Ken Auletta's Tuesday breakfast interview with CBS chief Les Moonves during which Moonves called Dan Rather's "tarting up" remarks about Katie Couric sexist and set off a bit of a firestorm... [FishBowlNY]
Robbed At The Mirror Awards - Posted June 14, 2007
Andersen, Auletta, Kurtz also shut out
The first annual Mirror Awards were presented at a Meredith Vieira-hosted luncheon today at the W hotel in Midtown, and our mediabistro.com mothership a finalist in the media information services category lost to HealthNewsReview.org. In other words, we were robbed.
Still, we weren't the only... [FishBowlNY]
Rather-Moonves: War Of Words - Posted June 12, 2007
Some juicy Dan Rather-Les Moonves point-counterpoint action if you're into that sort of thing.
First up, Rather, on Katie Couric and the CBS Evening News:
"You know, she tried to change networks, which is always difficult and change the programs at the same time. They've done all of the usual things. They... [FishBowlNY]
Walter Mossberg's Cool Mil - Posted May 7, 2007
The New Yorker's Ken Auletta turns in a profile of Walter Mossberg, the Wall Street Journal's longtime consumer technology columnist and white goateed gadget guru. Fine profile, but here's the key passage:
Few tech columnists, though, write as clearly about the subject as Mossberg. Nor is it likely that any print journalist... [FishBowlNY]
Portfolio: 'CEO Porn To Masturbate' To? - Posted April 16, 2007
What the usual suspects and others are saying about Portfolio's launch:
NYT: "Business is about power," Condé Nast Portfolio's editor Joanne Lipman writes in her first editor's letter. "And guts. And passion. Business coverage should be too." Business is also about brains, and Condé Nast's were certainly questioned when... [FishBowlNY]
Dean Baquet: 'Panic Had Set In' - Posted March 29, 2007
This morning at breakfast at the ultra-swank W Hotel in Midtown (blaring "salsatronica" at in the lobby at 8:00AM = unnecessary), Dean Baquet looked an awful lot like the next executive editor of the New York Times. As he sat alongside Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of the McClatchy Co. of... [FishBowlNY]
Ken Auletta, Interplanetary Reporter? - Posted January 16, 2007
Ok, so maybe he hasn't gotten his Neptune dateline yet, but New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta has covered pretty much every other corner of the media galaxy. His recent profile of Lou Dobbs, for example, pegged the outspoken anchor's yearly compensation at $6 million -- a figure that has been... [FishBowlNY]





