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Andrew Ross Sorkin Biography
Andrew Ross Sorkin is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on February 19, 1977 in New York City, New York, United States. Andrew Ross Sorkin (born February 19, 1977) is an American journalist and author. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box. He is also 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 of the book for HBO Films. He is also the co-creator for the Showtime series Billions.
In October 2001, while a journalist at The New York Times, Sorkin started DealBook, a newsletter about deal-making and Wall Street. DealBook was one of the first financial news aggregation services on the Internet. In March 2006, Sorkin introduced a companion website published on The New York Times, with updated news and original analysis throughout the day. In 2007, DealBook won a Webby Award for Best Business Blog and it won a SABEW award for overall excellence. In 2008, the site won an EPpy Award for Best Business Blog.
Sorkin married Pilar Jenny Queen on June 9, 2007. They have three children, the youngest born on January 4, 2017.
In 2007, Sorkin was one of the first journalists to identify and criticize a tax loophole for private equity firms and hedge funds. He first wrote about the topic in a column in March 2007, calling the tax treatment a “charade”, and later wrote about it on the front page of The New York Times. He has written at least a half dozen articles critiquing the tax practice by private equity firms and advocated for the government to end the loophole.
Sorkin joined The New York Times full-time in 1999 as the newspaper’s European mergers and acquisitions reporter, and was based in London. In 2000, Sorkin became the paper’s chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, based in New York, a position he still holds. In 2001, Sorkin founded “DealBook,” an online daily financial report published by the Times. As Editor-at-Large of “DealBook,” Sorkin writes a weekly column of the same name. Sorkin is also an assistant editor of business and finance news for the paper.
| Name | Andrew Ross Sorkin |
| First Name | Andrew |
| Last Name | Wiederhorn |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Birthday | February 19 |
| Birth Year | 1977 |
| Place of Birth | New York City |
| Home Town | New York |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Aquarius |
| Full/Birth Name | |
| Parents | Laurence T. Sorkin, Joan Ross Sorkin |
| Siblings | Not Available |
| Spouse | Pilar Queen |
| Children(s) | Not Available |
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In July 2011, Sorkin became a co-anchor on CNBC’s Squawk Box in addition to his duties at 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 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 The Colbert Report, and was a frequent guest host of CNBC’s Squawk Box before joining the ensemble. Sorkin also hosted a weekly seven-part, half-hour PBS talk-show series called It’s the Economy, NY, which focused on how the evolving economic crisis was affecting New Yorkers.
Andrew Ross Sorkin Net Worth
Andrew Ross Sorkin is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andrew Ross Sorkin's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Sorkin was born in New York, the son of Joan Ross Sorkin, a playwright, and Laurence T. Sorkin, a partner at the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel. His family is Jewish. Sorkin graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1995 and earned a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in 1999 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. He is not related to Aaron Sorkin nor is he related to noted defense lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin.
Sorkin first joined The New York Times as a student intern during his senior year in high school. He also worked for the paper while he was in college, publishing 71 articles before he graduated. He began by writing media and technology articles while assisting the advertising columnist, Stuart Elliott. Sorkin spent the summer of 1996 working for Businessweek, before returning to The New York Times. He moved to London for part of 1998. While there, he wrote about European business and technology for The New York Times and then returned to Cornell to complete his studies. At Cornell, he was vice president of the Sigma Pi fraternity.
Sorkin shared the Gerald Loeb Award in 2005 for Deadline Writing and earned another for Business Book in 2010 for his book Too Big to Fail. 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. Also in 2007, SiliconAlleyInsider.com named Sorkin one of New York’s “most influential scribes”. In 2008, Vanity Fair magazine named Sorkin as one of 40 new members of the “Next Establishment,” and he appeared on the UJA Federation’s 2013 list of 40 under 40 top “movers and shakers” in the Jewish community. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Salary | Under Review |
| Source of Income | Journalist |
| Cars | Not Available |
| House | Living in own house. |
In 2014, Sorkin wrote a series of columns criticizing American corporations for trying to lower their US tax bill by merging with smaller foreign companies in a transaction known as an “inversion”. He also criticized the Wall Street banks that advised US companies to pursue such deals, describing the banks as “corporate co-conspirators”. Sorkin called on the government to end the practice. On September 22, 2014, the Obama Administration changed the tax laws to make it more difficult for US companies to merge to avoid taxes.
Sorkin is the co-creator for the Showtime series Billions, an American television drama series created with Brian Koppelman and David Levien, starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis. The series is loosely based on crusading federal prosecutor of financial crimes Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The show premiered in January 2016.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
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| Height | Unknown |
| Weight | Not Known |
| Body Measurements | Under Review |
| Eye Color | Not Available |
| Hair Color | Not Available |
| Feet/Shoe Size | Not Available |
Sorkin’s book on the Wall Street banking crisis, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, was published by Viking on October 20, 2009. It won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for best business book of the year, was on the shortlist for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlisted for the 2010 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and was on The New York Times Best Seller list (non-fiction hardcover and paperback) for six months. The book was adapted as a movie by HBO Films and premiered on HBO on May 23, 2011. The film was directed by Curtis Hanson and the screenplay was written by Peter Gould. The cast 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; James Woods as Richard Fuld, the CEO of Lehman Brothers; 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. Sorkin was a co-producer of the film and had a cameo appearance as a reporter.
Who is Andrew Ross Sorkin Dating?
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Facts & Trivia
Andrew Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Andrew Ross Sorkin celebrates birthday on February 19 of every year.
Are Andrew and Aaron Sorkin related?
He is not related to writer Aaron Sorkin nor defense lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin. He is of Jewish descent.
How rich is Andrew Ross Sorkin?
| Date of Birth: | Feb 19, 1977 (45 years old) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Profession: | Journalist, Writer, Author, Editor, Actor, Film Producer |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
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