Background
Ausiello grew up in Roselle Park, New Jersey.
Ausiello grew up in Roselle Park, New Jersey.
University of Southern California.
He was a senior writer at television Guide and its companion website, TVGuide.com. On May 28, 2008, Ausiello left television Guide for Entertainment Weekly and posted his first blog for them on July 2, 2008. On October 4, 2010, he announced his departure from Entertainment Weekly to join Jay Penske"s Penske Media Corporation, where he launched a new television site, TVLine.com.
He is a graduate of the University of Southern California, and 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 television Guide.
Ausiello began writing for television Guide in 2000. During his eight year tenure at television Guide, he wrote for both the magazine and its website.
Ausiello"s columns at television Guide included Today"s News, The Ausiello Report, a weekly print column that expanded into a regularly updated blog online, and Ask Ausiello, an exclusively online weekly Q&A. Ausiello contributed to the website"s weekly podcast, television Guide Talk and the weekly television Guide Channel program The 411 with a five-minute segment entitled "The Big Five", where he commented on the top five entertainment industry stories of the week. Ausiello also had a vodcast version of The Ausiello Report.
Ausiello has also contributed commentary to media outlets outside of television 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 109) with host Larry Flick, where they converse with callers about all things television—shows, stars, and plot lines, including scoops and spoilers. Having 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 a pesca-vegetarian, currently residing in New York City.