Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Chief Mergers and Acquisitions Reporter, The New York Times

Andrew Ross Sorkin is The New York Times’s chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and a columnist. He is also the author of the 2009 book, "Too Big To Fail." Mr. Sorkin, a leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America, is also the editor of DealBook, an online daily financial report he started in 2001. In addition, Mr. Sorkin is an assistant editor of business and finance news, helping guide and shape the paper’s coverage.Mr. Sorkin, who has appeared on NBC's “Today” show and on “Charlie Rose” on PBS, is a frequent guest host of CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” He won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, in 2004 for breaking news. He also won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award for breaking news in 2005 and again in 2006. In 2007, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader.  Mr. Sorkin began writing for The Times in 1995 under unusual circumstances: he hadn’t yet graduated from high school.  Mr. Sorkin lives in Manhattan.

The DealBook editor breaks business leaders into two major categories, embodied by Apple’s Steve Jobs on one end and GE’s Jeff Immelt on the other.
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For the New York Times columnist, it’s all about being scooped.
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Contrary to popular belief, Andrew Ross Sorkin thinks TV coverage of the financial meltdown stood up quite well.
9 min
Andrew Ross Sorkin tackles the future of financial regulation, the push-pull of policy and politics, and how John Mack could have easily suffered the same fate as Lehman’s CEO.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin believes in taking a holistic approach to avoid future meltdowns: “This crisis was a result of the fact that everybody was as interconnected as they were.”
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History may look more fondly upon him than he’s given credit for today. The bailout and the response to the crisis was executed better than many imagined, says Andrew Ross […]
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A conversation with the New York Times columnist and author of “Too Big to Fail.”