Backstory:
Inside the Business of News

From Howell Raines and the New York Times to Roger Ailes and Fox News, America's most celebrated media journalist dissects the people and institutions shaping media, for good and for ill, in a time of profound change.

"Ken Auletta is the James Bond of the media world, a man who combines the probing mind and easy charm of a top intelligent agent with the glamour that benefits the holder of a high-profile job. In the past decade, Auletta, the media critic for The New Yorker, has set his sights on a variety of media targets, often getting both access and time for a thorough exploration. The result: stories that give readers an intimate feel for the drama within the institutions that set the national news agenda."
- Business Week, January 12, 2004

"Who guards the gatekeepers of the wayward press? These days it's Auletta of The New Yorker.... Our modern Liebling has prime access, a fine ear and smooth narrative clarity, especially about business strategy. He unravels mysteries large and small."
-The Washington Post's Book World, January 25, 2004

World War 3.0:
Microsoft and its Enemies

The Microsoft case is the most important legal dispute of this century or the last. This book is a perfect integration of the legal and the business drama at the heart of the case.

The Best Business Stories of the Year, 2002 Edition

The second annual edition of this new series is packed with entertaining business stories from the past year. The submission deadline was extended to include two pieces on the effects of the WTC disaster on the economy and American consciousness.

The Highwaymen:
Warriors of the Information Superhighway

A titanic struggle is taking place - not just among corporate titans, but among entire industries across the globe. At stake is control of the world's fastest-growing industry: communications.

Three Blind Mice:
How the TV Networks Lost Their Way

What happened to network television in the 1980s? How did CBS, NBC, and ABC lose a third of their audience and more than half of their annual profits?

Greed and Glory on Wall Street:
The Fall of the House of Lehman

On a quiet July morning, one of the world's most powerful and prestigious investment banking partnerships was launched on the path to ruin-not by the economy, not by an act of God, but by a self-inflicted wound.

The Art of Corporate Success

The Story of Schlumberger

The Underclass

A first-hand account of America's new social dropouts—street criminals, hustlers, long-term welfare recipients, and the homeless—and of what might be done to bring them into the mainstream.

The Streets were Paved with Gold

The Decline of New York, An American Tragedy

Hard Feelings

Reporting on the Polls, the Press, the People and the City.