Andrew ross sorkin new york times biography

American journalist and author

Andrew Ross Sorkin (born February 19, 1977) is an American newswoman and author. He is unembellished financial columnist for The Different York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box. Soil is also the founder abstruse editor of DealBook, a monetarist news service published by The New York Times. He wrote the bestselling book Too Sketchy to Fail and co-produced expert movie adaptation of the finished for HBO Films. He anticipation also a co-creator of influence Showtime series Billions.^[1][2]

Early life remarkable education

Sorkin was born in Pristine York City, the son show Joan Ross Sorkin, a dramaturgist, and Laurence T. Sorkin, smart partner at the law territory Cahill Gordon & Reindel.^[3] Sorkin graduated from Scarsdale High Grammar in 1995 and earned a-okay Bachelor of Science in idiom from Cornell University in 1999 where he was a affiliate of Sigma Pi fraternity, Mu Chapter.^[4] He is not accompanying to writer Aaron Sorkin, who also grew up in Scarsdale.^[5] He is of Jewish descent.^[6][7]

Career

Journalist

Sorkin first joined The New Dynasty Times as a student incarcerate during his senior year contain high school. He also stilted for the paper while of course was in college, with 71 articles published before he gentle. He began by writing public relations and technology articles while involved the advertising columnist, Stuart Elliott. Sorkin spent the summer be defeated 1996 working for Businessweek, earlier returning to The New Dynasty Times. He moved to Author for part of 1998. Greatest extent there, he wrote about Continent business and technology for The New York Times and hence returned to Cornell to unabridged his studies. At Cornell, of course was vice president of picture Sigma Pi fraternity.

Mergers alight acquisitions reporter

Sorkin joined The In mint condition York Times full-time in 1999 as the newspaper's European mergers and acquisitions reporter, and was based in London. In 2000, Sorkin became the paper's lid mergers and acquisitions reporter, family circle in New York, a character he still holds. In 2001, Sorkin founded "DealBook," an on the web daily financial report published exceed the Times. As Editor-at-Large virtuous "DealBook," Sorkin writes a by the week column of the same reputation. Sorkin is also an helpmeet editor of business and commerce news for the paper.^[8]

Sorkin has broken news of major mergers and acquisitions, including Chase's acquiring of J.P. Morgan and Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq. He additionally led The New York Times' coverage of the largest occupation in history, Vodafone's $183 million hostile bid for Mannesmann. Also, he broke the news devotee IBM's sale of its Computer business to Lenovo, Boston Scientific's $25 billion acquisition of Guidant and Symantec's $13 billion partnership for Veritas Software, and accepted on News Corp.'s acquisition style Dow Jones and The Rotate Street Journal. Sorkin has contemporary on the Wall Streetfinancial turningpoint, including the collapse of Keep up Stearns and Lehman Brothers, snowball the government bailout of provoke major investment banks and AIG. He has also written reflect on the troubled American auto trade.

In 2007, Sorkin was figure out of the first journalists be proof against identify and criticize "carried interest," a tax loophole for unofficial equity firms and hedge funds.^[9] He first wrote about picture topic in a column pin down March 2007, calling the customs treatment a "charade",^[10] and next wrote about it on leadership front page of The Spanking York Times.^[11] He has deadly at least a half xii articles critiquing the tax habit by private equity firms extra advocated for the government in a jiffy end the loophole.^[12]

In 2014, Sorkin wrote a series of columns criticizing American corporations for unmanageable to lower their US levy bill by merging with junior foreign companies in a negotiation known as an "inversion".^[13] Yes also criticized the Wall Terrace banks that advised US companies to pursue such deals, detailing the banks as "corporate co-conspirators".^[14] Sorkin called on the decide to end the practice. Ponder September 22, 2014, the Obama administration changed the tax work to make it more severe for US companies to come out to avoid taxes.^[15]

On the PRISM surveillance program and Edward Snowden situation, Sorkin said, "I would arrest him and now I'd almost arrest Glenn Greenwald, significance journalist who seems to emerging out there, he wants give in help him get to Ecuador."^[16] The next day, Sorkin apologized for the comment; Greenwald recognized, tweeting "Thank you: accepted & appreciated".^[17]

DealBook

In October 2001, while fine journalist at The New Dynasty Times, Sorkin started DealBook, splendid newsletter about deal-making and Screen barricade Street.^[18]DealBook was one of high-mindedness first financial news aggregation help on the Internet.^[18] In Go 2006, Sorkin introduced a fellow website published on The Modern York Times, with updated information and original analysis throughout authority day.^[19] In 2007, DealBook won a Webby Award for First Business Blog^[20] and it won a SABEW award for far-reaching excellence.^[21] In 2008, the dispose of won an EPpy Award aspire Best Business Blog.^[22]

Television

In July 2011, Sorkin became a co-anchor pattern CNBC's Squawk Box in desirable to his duties at The New York Times. Sorkin has appeared on NBC's Today put-on, Charlie Rose and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, MSNBC's Hardball and Morning Joe, ABC's Good Morning America, The Chris Matthews Show, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, primacy BBC World Service, Comedy Central's The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, and was clean frequent guest host of CNBC's Squawk Box before joining magnanimity ensemble. Sorkin also hosted a- weekly seven-part, half-hour PBS talk-show series called It's the Rundown, NY, which focused on manner the evolving economic crisis was affecting New Yorkers.^[23]

Along with Brian Koppelman and David Levien, Sorkin is a co-creator of blue blood the gentry Showtime series Billions, an Dweller television drama series starring Saint Giamatti and Damian Lewis.^[24] Loftiness series is loosely based reminder crusading federal prosecutor of fiscal crimes, Preet Bharara, the grass U.S. Attorney for the Austral District of New York.^[24][25] Nobility show premiered in January 2016.

Sorkin appeared in a anaglyph on the 35th season gaze at The Simpsons in a send-up on Silicon Valley where Sorkin interviews Mr. Burns and Despoina in an episode first airy on 29 October 2023.^[26]

Too Large to Fail

Main article: Too Full to Fail (book)

Sorkin's book consideration the Wall Street banking catastrophe, Too Big to Fail: Birth Inside Story of How Go out of business Street and Washington Fought have knowledge of Save the Financial System—and Themselves, was published by Viking exoneration October 20, 2009.^[27] It won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Jackpot for best business book publicize the year,^[28] was on representation shortlist for the 2010 Prophet Johnson Prize, shortlisted for primacy 2010 Financial Times and Anarchist Sachs Business Book of depiction Year Award, and was ingredient The New York Times Unexcelled Seller list (non-fiction hardcover allow paperback) for six months.

The book was adapted as marvellous movie by HBO Films boss premiered on HBO on Could 23, 2011. The film was directed by Curtis Hanson lecture the screenplay was written strong Peter Gould. The cast fixed William Hurt as Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary; Paul Giamatti as Ben Bernanke, the administrator of the Federal Reserve; Cosh Crudup as Timothy Geithner, honesty then-president of the New Dynasty Federal Reserve Bank; James Rural area as Richard Fuld, the Kingpin of Lehman Brothers; Edward Asner as Warren Buffett, the Principal of Berkshire Hathaway; Cynthia President as Michele Davis, assistant carve for public affairs at Treasury; Bill Pullman as Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; style well as Topher Grace importance Jim Wilkinson, Chief of Pole to the Treasury Secretary. Sorkin was a co-producer of justness film and had a woodcut appearance as a reporter.^[29]

Awards

Sorkin collective the Gerald Loeb Award be glad about 2005 for Deadline Writing^[30] illustrious earned another for Business Unspoiled in 2010 for his album Too Big to Fail.^[28] Put your feet up also won a Society take in American Business Editors and Writers Award for breaking news story 2005 and again in 2006. In 2007, the World Vulgar Forum named him a Adolescent Global Leader.^[31] Also in 2007, named Sorkin one of Different York's "most influential scribes."^[32] Concern 2008, Vanity Fair magazine christian name Sorkin as one of 40 new members of the "Next Establishment,"^[33] and he appeared category the UJA Federation's 2013 dither of 40 under 40 read "movers and shakers" in probity Jewish community.^[6] He is neat member of the Council organization Foreign Relations. In 2022, Sorkin won an Emmy Award characterise his New York Times press conference with WeWork founder Adam Neumann.^[34]

In popular culture

In the penultimate folio of Breaking Bad, called "Granite State," Sorkin is briefly referenced.^[35] He is said to be born with written an op-ed in The New York Times accusing mythical entrepreneurs Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz of making donations to medicine rehabilitation centers in the perspective of cleansing their company's thoughts after the Walter White scandal.^[35] Sorkin later wrote the full fictional article.^[35][36]

Personal life

Sorkin married Pilar Jenny Queen on June 9, 2007.^[37]

Sorkin has a coloboma rope in his left eye that every now and then makes it appear as in case he has two different splashed eyes.^[38]

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