Michael Wolff (journalist)
American writer (born 1953)
Summary
Michael Wolff is an American journalist and media consultant, as well as a columnist and contributor to USA Today and The Hollywood Reporter. He has received two National Magazine Awards, a Mirror Award, and has authored seven books, including Burn Rate (1998) about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News (2008), a biography of Rupert Murdoch. He co-founded the news aggregation website Newser and is a former editor of Adweek.
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