person1995–present

Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Summary

American financial journalist, co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box, founder of the DealBook conference, and author of Too Big to Fail — the definitive narrative account of the 2008 financial crisis.

Core Contribution

Created DealBook as the pre-eminent financial industry intelligence platform and authored Too Big to Fail, which set the standard for real-time crisis journalism — demonstrating that breaking-news access and narrative depth could coexist.

Key Spikes & Highlights

Access as Primary Asset (cultivates source relationships with sitting CEOs and Treasury secretaries as the foundation of his journalism — his access during the 2008 crisis was the competitive moat that made Too Big to Fail possible)
Simultaneity of Breaking News and Long-Form Narrative (refuses to treat speed and depth as trade-offs — documented real-time events in 2008 while simultaneously structuring them into a narrative book)

Notable Works & Achievements

Too Big to Fail

1929

Historical Influences

Floyd Norris Gretchen Morgenson Michael Lewis

Intellectual Lineage

Financial Journalism Tradition New York Times Business Writing Access Journalism

Contemporaries & Peers

Michael Lewis Bethany McLean Roger Lowenstein William Cohan

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

DealBook Too Big to Fail

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