Gabriel Sherman is an American author. In 2014, he wrote a biography about

Fox News Channel The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is ...

president Roger Ailes called '' The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News – and Divided a Country'', which debuted at #9 on The New York Times Bestseller list.

Early life and education

Gabriel Sherman is the son of Raechelle Beth Kriger Thedinga and Leonard Sherman. His mother is a dietitian and nutritionist, and his father, a retired partner in Accenture, is an adjunct professor of marketing at

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. He has written for ''

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'' and for ''

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'' magazine where he was a contributing editor. He is a graduate of

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Career

Sherman is a special correspondent for ''Vanity Fair''. He has been a national-affairs editor for ''New York'' magazine, and he is a regular contributor to

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and

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. ;''The Loudest Voice in the Room'' ''SF Gate'' called his biography of Roger Ailes, the founder and longtime chairman and CEO of

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and

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, ''The Loudest Voice in the Room,'' "classic in a subgenre that might be called Enraged TV Executives Throwing Things." Sherman interviewed 600 people for the book, but did not have an interview with Ailes himself. Sherman portrays Ailes' leadership of Fox News as "absolute". Ken Kurson wrote that the Ze'ev Chafets' biography, ''Roger Ailes: Off Camera'', released before Sherman's book, "does a better job penetrating the psyche of Mr. Ailes (Mr. Chafets had extensive access to the wizard), and Mr. Sherman’s book does a better job depicting the phenomenon of Fox News and its cultural meaning." Fox News has denied many of the events depicted in the book. The book led to a number of media reports about Fox and its culture. Jay Ambrose said that readers "should also not worry yourself to death about" ''The Loudest Voice in the Room'' because Ailes is a "fascinating if endlessly castigated man whose direction of Fox News divided nothing." His book was turned into a miniseries, ''

The Loudest Voice ''The Loudest Voice'' is a 2019 American drama television miniseries depicting Roger Ailes as he creates and guides the rise of Fox News. It is based on the 2014 book '' The Loudest Voice in the Room'', by Gabriel Sherman, and premiered June 3 ...

'', starring Russell Crowe as Ailes. In the show, Sherman was played by Fran Kranz.

Personal life

In 2011, Sherman married Jennifer Stahl in a

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ceremony. Stahl is an editor at ProPublica. Formerly, she was a fact-checker at ''

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'' magazine. She is a graduate of

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and was a Fulbright Scholar in classical and German literature at Freie Universität Berlin in

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, from 2004 to 2005.

Bibliography

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and Leslie Wexner.

References

External links

Official website
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