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How to Get Wall Street Insiders to Tell All - Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Channel: FORA.tv · 2009 · News & Politics

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/11/02/Too_Big_to_Fail_The_Inside_Story_of_a_Crisis

Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times explains the research methods behind his book Too Big to Fail, which reconstructs pivotal moments of Wall Street's financial crisis. Sorkin interviewed over 200 industry insiders in order to accurately chronicle the historic collapse.

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The Foreign Policy Association hosts Andrew Ross Sorkin, the award-winning chief mergers and acquisitions reporter, columnist and assistant editor of business and finance news at The New York Times, to talk about his new book, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System--and Themselves.  - Foreign Policy Association

Andrew Ross Sorkin is The New York Times's chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and a columnist. Mr. Sorkin, a leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America, is also the editor of DealBook (nytimes.com/dealbook), an online daily financial report he started in 2001. In addition, Mr. Sorkin is an assistant editor of business and finance news, helping guide and shape the paper's coverage.

Mr. Sorkin, who has appeared on NBC's "Today" show and on "Charlie Rose" on PBS, is a frequent guest host of CNBC's "Squawk Box." He won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, in 2004 for breaking news. 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.

Mr. Sorkin began writing for The Times in 1995 under unusual circumstances: he hadn't yet graduated from high school. Mr. Sorkin lives in Manhattan.

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