Career Highlights
- A leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America
- Written, co-written or contributed to approximately 2000 articles for The New York Times, including more than 120 front-page articles and about 150 DealBook columns
- Earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University in 1999
- 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
- Vanity Fair magazine named Sorkin as one of 40 new members of the “Next Establishment” in 2008
Career Overview
Andrew Ross Sorkin began working for The New York Times while he was in high school. Starting out as an intern, he continued with The Times through college (publishing 71 articles before he graduated) and accepted a full time position as the newspaper's European mergers and acquisitions reporter, based in London. The following year he became The Times' chief mergers and acquisitions reporter in New York, a position he still holds. Sorkin is also the founder and editor of DealBook, a financial news service published by The Times. It was one of the first financial news aggregation services on the Internet and it won a 2007 Webby Award for Best Business Blog and a SABEW award for overall excellence.
Sorkin also acts as editor of business and finance news and has appeared on television networks such as NBC, PBS, BBC, and HBO, is a frequent guest host of CNBC’s Squawk Box and hosted a weekly seven-part PBS talk-show series. Throughout his career Sorkin has earned many awards for his work including the Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, in 2004 and 2005 for breaking news, and has been named one of the 30 most influential financial journalists in the nation under the age of 30 by TJFR/NewsBios for the past 4 years. Most recently, Sorkin has been reporting on the Wall Street financial crisis and the troubled American auto industry. His book on the banking crisis, Too Big to Fail, is to be released in the fall of 2009.
Too Big to Fail tells the inside story of how Wall Street and Washington, DC fought to save the financial system. Sorkin talks with key players and gives behind the scenes accounts of “how the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression developed into a global tsunami.” Men and women in finance and politics are looked at as they frantically deal with the economic crisis and try to save not only the financial systems, but also themselves.
Our Interview
Andrew Ross Sorkin talked with ThinkTalk host Zack Sherwood about his new book, Too Big Too Fail, which profiles the collapse of Wall Street. He also talked about how he came to work for the New York Times and took questions from students from the University of Maryland. Students asked Andrew Ross Sorkin questions regarding his decision to write this book, the challenges of writing a book versus an article, and the hardest article he’s ever had to write.
