“Every journalism bromide - speaking truth to power, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the powerful - that otherwise would be hopelessly sappy to a journalist of any experience, has become a Twitter grail. The true business of journalism has become obscured because there is really no longer a journalism business.”

American journalist and media consultant

Michael Wolff is an American journalist, media consultant, columnist, and contributor, known for his reporting on media and business. He has worked for USA Today and The Hollywood Reporter, and he was a former editor of Adweek. Wolff has written seven books. Among them are Burn Rate, published in 1998 about his own dot-com company, and The Man Who Owns the News, a 2008 biography of Rupert Murdoch. He also co-founded the news aggregation website Newser. His work has earned two National Magazine Awards and a Mirror Award.