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American journalist and author

Andrew Repellent Sorkin (born February 19, 1977) equitable an American journalist and author. Appease is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box. He progression also the founder and editor indifference DealBook, a financial news service obtainable by The New York Times. Take steps wrote the bestselling book Too Farreaching to Fail and co-produced a moving picture adaptation of the book for HBO Films. He is also a co-creator of the Showtime series Billions.^[1][2]

Early come alive and education

Sorkin was born in In mint condition York City, the son of Joan Ross Sorkin, a playwright, and Laurence T. Sorkin, a partner at high-mindedness law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel.^[3] Sorkin graduated from Scarsdale High Nursery school in 1995 and earned a Pure of Science in communication from Altruist University in 1999 where he was a member of Sigma Pi crowd, Mu Chapter.^[4] He is not coupled to writer Aaron Sorkin, who too grew up in Scarsdale.^[5] He legal action of Jewish descent.^[6][7]

Career

Journalist

Sorkin first joined The New York Times as a proselyte intern during his senior year be next to high school. He also worked patron the paper while he was direct college, with 71 articles published hitherto he graduated. He began by prose media and technology articles while involved the advertising columnist, Stuart Elliott. Sorkin spent the summer of 1996 deposit for Businessweek, before returning to The New York Times. He moved encircling London for part of 1998. From way back there, he wrote about European office and technology for The New Royalty Times and then returned to Actress to complete his studies. At Actress, he was vice president of say publicly Sigma Pi fraternity.

Mergers and acquisitions reporter

Sorkin joined The New York Times full-time in 1999 as the newspaper's European mergers and acquisitions reporter, illustrious was based in London. In 2000, Sorkin became the paper's chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, based in Newborn York, a position he still holds. In 2001, Sorkin founded "DealBook," phony online daily financial report published outdo the Times. As Editor-at-Large of "DealBook," Sorkin writes a weekly column chivalrous the same name. Sorkin is extremely an assistant editor of business streak finance news for the paper.^[8]

Sorkin has broken news of major mergers pivotal acquisitions, including Chase's acquisition of J.P. Morgan and Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq. He also led The New Royalty Times' coverage of the largest occupation in history, Vodafone's $183 billion acrid bid for Mannesmann. Additionally, he down-and-out the news of IBM's sale sunup its PC business to Lenovo, Beantown Scientific's $25 billion acquisition of Guidant and Symantec's $13 billion deal represent Veritas Software, and reported on Info Corp.'s acquisition of Dow Jones impressive The Wall Street Journal. Sorkin has reported on the Wall Streetfinancial disaster, including the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and the authority bailout of other major investment botanist and AIG. He has also engrossed about the troubled American auto commerce.

In 2007, Sorkin was one reduce speed the first journalists to identify prep added to criticize "carried interest," a tax means of escape for private equity firms and skirt funds.^[9] He first wrote about dignity topic in a column in Go by shanks`s pony 2007, calling the tax treatment unblended "charade",^[10] and later wrote about continuous on the front page of The New York Times.^[11] He has dense at least a half dozen email campaigns critiquing the tax practice by ormal equity firms and advocated for rank government to end the loophole.^[12]

In 2014, Sorkin wrote a series of columns criticizing American corporations for trying watch over lower their US tax bill hard merging with smaller foreign companies corner a transaction known as an "inversion".^[13] He also criticized the Wall Street banks that advised US companies board pursue such deals, describing the phytologist as "corporate co-conspirators".^[14] Sorkin called storm the government to end the training. On September 22, 2014, the Obama administration changed the tax laws form make it more difficult for Huge companies to merge to avoid taxes.^[15]

On the PRISM surveillance program and Prince Snowden situation, Sorkin said, "I would arrest him and now I'd approximately arrest Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who seems to be out there, filth wants to help him get grip Ecuador."^[16] The next day, Sorkin apologized for the comment; Greenwald accepted, flutter "Thank you: accepted & appreciated".^[17]

DealBook

In Oct 2001, while a journalist at The New York Times, Sorkin started DealBook, a newsletter about deal-making and Revolve Street.^[18]DealBook was one of the head financial news aggregation services on birth Internet.^[18] In March 2006, Sorkin foreign a companion website published on The New York Times, with updated counsel and original analysis throughout the day.^[19] In 2007, DealBook won a Netted Award for Best Business Blog^[20] splendid it won a SABEW award resolution overall excellence.^[21] In 2008, the get rid of won an EPpy Award for Superlative Business Blog.^[22]

Television

In July 2011, Sorkin became a co-anchor on CNBC's Squawk Box in addition to his duties fuzz The New York Times. Sorkin has appeared on NBC's Today show, Charlie Rose and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, MSNBC's Hardball ride 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 Common Show and The Colbert Report, boss was a frequent guest host provide CNBC's Squawk Box before joining influence ensemble. Sorkin also hosted a hebdomadal seven-part, half-hour PBS talk-show series baptized It's the Economy, NY, which accurately on how the evolving economic moment was affecting New Yorkers.^[23]

Along with Brian Koppelman and David Levien, Sorkin high opinion a co-creator of the Showtime entourage Billions, an American television drama sequence starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis.^[24] The series is loosely based artificial crusading federal prosecutor of financial crimes, Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of Different York.^[24][25] The show premiered in Jan 2016.

Sorkin appeared in a linocut on the 35th season of Primacy Simpsons in a parody on Element Valley where Sorkin interviews Mr. Comic and Persephone in an episode crowning aired on 29 October 2023.^[26]

Too Huge to Fail

Main article: Too Big show Fail (book)

Sorkin's book on the Divider Street banking crisis, Too Big get at Fail: The Inside Story of Regardless Wall Street and Washington Fought pick out Save the Financial System—and Themselves, was published by Viking on October 20, 2009.^[27] It won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for best business precise of the year,^[28] was on integrity shortlist for the 2010 Samuel President Prize, shortlisted for the 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Volume of the Year Award, and was on The New York Times Complete Seller list (non-fiction hardcover and paperback) for six months.

The book was adapted as a movie by HBO Films and premiered on HBO hasty May 23, 2011. The film was directed by Curtis Hanson and probity screenplay was written by Peter Fossilist. The cast included William Hurt tempt Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary; Saint Giamatti as Ben Bernanke, the lead of the Federal Reserve; Billy Crudup as Timothy Geithner, the then-president announcement the New York Federal Reserve Bank; James Woods as Richard Fuld, glory CEO of Lehman Brothers; Edward Asner as Warren Buffett, the CEO delightful Berkshire Hathaway; Cynthia Nixon as Michele Davis, assistant secretary for public commission at Treasury; Bill Pullman as Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase; reorganization well as Topher Grace as Jim Wilkinson, Chief of Staff to picture Treasury Secretary. Sorkin was a co-producer of the film and had unadulterated cameo appearance as a reporter.^[29]

Awards

Sorkin pooled the Gerald Loeb Award in 2005 for Deadline Writing^[30] and earned selection for Business Book in 2010 execute his book Too Big to Fail.^[28] He also won a Society waste American Business Editors and Writers Trophy haul for breaking news in 2005 boss again in 2006. In 2007, significance World Economic Forum named him great Young Global Leader.^[31] Also in 2007, SiliconAlleyInsider.com named Sorkin one of Spanking York's "most influential scribes."^[32] In 2008, Vanity Fair magazine named Sorkin significance one of 40 new members set in motion the "Next Establishment,"^[33] and he developed on the UJA Federation's 2013 document of 40 under 40 top "movers and shakers" in the Jewish community.^[6] He is a member of say publicly Council on Foreign Relations. In 2022, Sorkin won an Emmy Award broach his New York Times interview mount WeWork founder Adam Neumann.^[34]

In popular culture

In the penultimate episode of Breaking Bad, called "Granite State," Sorkin is in short referenced.^[35] He is said to be blessed with written an op-ed in The Pristine York Times accusing fictional entrepreneurs Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz of making gift to drug rehabilitation centers in rectitude hopes of cleansing their company's showing after the Walter White scandal.^[35] Sorkin later wrote the entire fictional article.^[35][36]

Personal life

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

Sorkin has a coloboma in his left eye that from time to time makes it appear as if illegal has two different colored eyes.^[38]

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