Two Journalism Icons Walk into a Luncheon...


Graydon Carter and Ken Auletta:

A Conversation Worth Your Seat

Join us April 18 for a luncheon featuring two journalists who epitomize glamour and notoriety delivered with flair. Award-winning editor and documentary producer Graydon Carter — 25 years at Vanity Fair and author of When the Going Was Good — in conversation with author and Silurian lifetime achievement honoree Ken Auletta, currently producing a documentary about the Murdochs. Don't miss this marquee conversation!

An instant New York Times bestseller, Carter’s memoir revives the glamorous heyday of print magazines when they were at the vanguard of American culture. The Financial Times called When the Going Was Good as “Catnip to anyone in publishing” and it was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and the New York Post.

 Carter is the founder of Air Mail. Before this, he was a staff writer for both Time and Life. He cocreated Spy, edited The New York Observer. He is also the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning producer of more than a dozen documentaries and one hit Broadway play.

Auletta launched the Annals of Communications column for The New Yorker magazine in 1992. He is the author of thirteen books, including five national bestsellers.His thirteenth book, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence, was published in July 2022. Ken is currently reporting a documentary on Murdoch with acclaimed director Matt Tyrnauer, and is also writing about The Murdoch Puzzle.

In ranking him as America's premier media critic, the Columbia Journalism Review concluded, "no other reporter has covered the new communications revolution as thoroughly as has Auletta." New York Magazine described him as the "media Boswell."

In another life, Auletta taught and trained Peace Corps volunteers; served as Special Assistant to the U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce; worked in Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 campaign for the Presidency; was Executive Editor of the weekly Manhattan Tribune.