Michael Ausiello
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Michael Ausiello is an American television industry journalist and sometimes actor. He is currently Senior Writer at TV Guide and its compainion website, TVGuide.com, where he has developed a reputation for breaking television industry news stories.
A native of New Jersey and a graduate of the University of Southern California, Ausiello spent three years as the senior news editor of Soaps In Depth magazine and served as media relations coordinator at Entertainment Tonight prior to joining TV Guide.
Ausiello currently pens two columns at TV Guide: The Ausiello Report, a weekly print column that expands into a regularly-updated blog online, and Ask Ausiello, an exclusively online weekly Q&A. Ausiello contributes to the website's weekly podcast, TV Guide Talk and the weekly TV Guide Channel program The 411 with a five-minute segment entitled "The Big Five", where he comments on the top five entertainment industry stories of the week. New to Ausiello's duties is the Vodcast, his own video clip of scooptastic television news.
Ausiello has also contributed commentary to programs outside of TV Guide, such as Today, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, American Morning, Inside Edition, Extra, Access Hollywood, and Entertainment Tonight. He is a regular guest every Friday morning on Sirius Satellite Radio's popular morning show, "OutQ in the Morning" (Channel 106) with host Larry Flick, where they dish with callers about all things television -- the shows, the stars, and the plot lines (including scoops and spoilers).
Having a garnered a number of connections with actors and producers such as Amy Sherman-Palladino, Ausiello has appeared in a few cameo roles on episodes of such television series as Gilmore Girls,Veronica Mars, and Scrubs.
He is frenemies with E!Online columnist Kristin Veitch.
