Andrew Ross Sorkin Wiki
Andrew Ross Sorkin is an American journalist and author born on February 19, 1977, in New York City. He is the co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box and financial columnist for The New York Times. Sorkin is the founder and editor of a financial news service, DealBook published by The New York Times.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Biography
He attended Scarsdale High School from where he graduated in 1995. In 1999, he earned a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University where he was a member of the Sigma Pi fraternity.
He joined The New York Times as a student intern during his senior year in high school. Sorkin also worked for the paper while he was in college, publishing 71 articles before he graduated. He started by writing media and technology articles while assisting the advertising columnist, Stuart Elliott. He then spent the summer of 1996 working for Businessweek, before he returned to The New York Times.
Ross moved to London for part of 1998, where he wrote about European business and technology for The New York Times. He then returned to Cornell to complete his studies. He was vice president of the Sigma Pi fraternity at Cornell.
CNBC Andrew Ross Sorkin
Sorkin became a co-anchor on CNBC’s Squawk Box in July 2011 in addition to his duties at The New York Times. He has also appeared on NBC’s Today show, 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, the BBC World Service, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and also The Colbert Report.
He was also a frequent guest host of CNBC’s Squawk Box before joining the ensemble. He also hosted a weekly seven-part, half-hour PBS talk-show series called It’s the Economy, NY. It focused on how the evolving economic crisis was affecting New Yorkers.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Age
Sorkin was born on February 19, 1977, in New York City, New York, United States.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Family
Sorkin was born to a Jewish family of Joan Ross Sorkin, a playwright, and Laurence T. Sorkin, a partner at the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Wife
On June 9, 2007, he married Pilar Jenny Queen. The couple has three children, the youngest child being born on January 4, 2017.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Children
He and his wife have three children, the youngest child being born on January 4, 2017.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Height
He stands at a height of 6ft 3in.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Salary Range
More information about his salary is not available at this moment. However, we shall update it as soon as possible.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Net Worth Range
Through Sorkin’s wide career in journalism and writing, Sorkin has acquired some reasonable good wealth. The founder and editor of DealBook have an estimated net worth of $10 million.
Andrew Ross Sorkin DealBook
While a journalist at The New York Times, he started DealBook a newsletter about deal-making and Wall Street in October 2001. It was one of the first financial news aggregation services on the Internet. He introduced a companion website published on The New York Times in March 2006, with updated news and original analysis throughout the day. The newsletter won a Webby Award for Best Business Blog in 2007 and it won a SABEW award for overall excellence. The site won an Eppy Award for Best Business Blog in 2008.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Books
- Too Big to Fail – 2009
Andrew Ross Sorkin Too Big to Fail
It is a non-fiction book chronicling the events of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of Lehman Brothers from the point of view of Wall Street CEOs and US government regulators. In 2010, the book won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for a best business book of the year. It was on the shortlist for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and shortlisted for the 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. It was also on The New York Times Best Seller list (non-fiction hardcover and paperback) for six months.
Too Big to Fail was adapted as a movie by HBO Films and premiered on HBO on May 23, 2011. It was directed by Curtis Hanson and the screenplay was written by Peter Gould. The cast of the film included William Hurt as Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary; Paul Giamatti as Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve; Billy Crudup as Timothy Geithner, the then-president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and James Woods as Richard Fuld, the CEO of Lehman Brothers.
It also cast Edward Asner as Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; Cynthia Nixon as Michele Davis, assistant secretary for public affairs at Treasury; Bill Pullman as Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; as well as Topher Grace as Jim Wilkinson, Chief of Staff to the Treasury Secretary. Ross was co-producer of the film and had a cameo appearance as a reporter.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Aaron Sorkin
Ross is not related to screenwriter and producer Aaron Sorkin or noted defense lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Billions
With Brian Koppelman and David Levien, Ross created the American television drama series Billions. The series stars Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis and premiered on Showtime on January 17, 2016. Billions are loosely based on the activities of Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and his legal battles with hedge fund manager Steve Cohen of S.A.C. Capital Advisors. On April 26, 2018, Showtime renewed the series for a fourth season, which then premiered on March 17, 2019.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Eye
Ross has a coloboma in his left eye. Ross says that it makes it look like his eyes are two different colors but he doesn’t think they are.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Religion
Being born in a Jewish family, Ross is also Jewish.