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Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin is an American journalist, author, and co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box. He is the founder and editor of DealBook, a financial news service published by The New York Times. He wrote the bestselling book Too Big to Fail and co-produced a movie adaptation for HBO Films. He is also a co-creator of the Showtime series Billions.

Sorkin was born in New York City to a playwright mother and a lawyer father. He graduated from Scarsdale High School and Cornell University, where he studied communication and was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He joined The New York Times as a student intern and worked for the paper while in college, writing media and technology articles.

Sorkin became the chief mergers and acquisitions reporter for The New York Times in 2000, based in New York. He founded DealBook in 2001, an online daily financial report that covers deal-making and Wall Street news. He writes a weekly column and is an assistant editor of business and finance news for the paper. He has broken news of major mergers and acquisitions, reported on the Wall Street financial crisis, and criticized tax loopholes and corporate inversions.

Sorkin’s book on the Wall Street banking crisis, Too Big to Fail, was published in 2009 and won the Gerald Loeb Award for best business book of the year. It was also adapted as a movie by HBO Films, which Sorkin co-produced and had a cameo role in. He shared another Gerald Loeb Award in 2005 for deadline writing and won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award for breaking news in 2005 and 2006. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and won an Emmy Award in 2022.