Sorkin has reported on the Wall Street financial crisis, including the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, and the government bailout of other major investment banks and AIG. Additionally, he broke the news of IBM's sale of its PC business to Lenovo, Boston Scientific's $25 billion acquisition of Guidant and Symantec's $13 billion deal for Veritas Software, and reported on News Corp.'s acquisition of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. He also led The New York Times' coverage of the largest takeover in history, Vodafone's $183 billion hostile bid for Mannesmann. Morgan and Hewlett-Packard's acquisition of Compaq. Sorkin has broken news of major mergers and acquisitions, including Chase's acquisition of J.P. Sorkin is also an assistant editor of business and finance news for the paper. As Editor-at-Large of "DealBook," Sorkin writes a weekly column of the same name. In 2001, Sorkin founded "DealBook," an online daily financial report published by the Times. In 2000, Sorkin became the paper's chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, based in New York, a position he still holds. Sorkin joined The New York Times full-time in 1999 as the newspaper's European mergers and acquisitions reporter, and was based in London. At Cornell, he was vice president of the Sigma Pi fraternity. While there, he wrote about European business and technology for The New York Times and then returned to Cornell to complete his studies. Sorkin spent the summer of 1996 working for Businessweek, before returning to The New York Times. He began by writing media and technology articles while assisting the advertising columnist, Stuart Elliott. He also worked for the paper while he was in college, publishing 71 articles before he graduated. Sorkin first joined The New York Times as a student intern during his senior year in high school. His family heritage and religion are Jewish. He is not related to writer Aaron Sorkin nor defense lawyer Ira Lee Sorkin. Sorkin graduated from Scarsdale High School in 1995 and earned a Bachelor of Science in communications from Cornell University in 1999 where he was a member of Sigma Pi fraternity. Sorkin, a partner at the law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel. Sorkin was born in New York, the son of Joan Ross Sorkin, a playwright, and Laurence T. He is also a co-creator of the Showtime series Billions. 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 founder and editor of DealBook, a financial news service published by The New York Times. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box. Andrew Ross Sorkin (born February 19, 1977) is an American journalist and author.
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