BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//GayOut//Event Export//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:217331@gayout.com DTSTAMP:20260831T112456Z DTSTART:20261002T190000Z DTEND:20261002T190000Z SUMMARY:UB Distinguished Speakers Series: Andrew Ross Sorkin DESCRIPTION:Andrew Ross Sorkin is an award-winning journalist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of “\\;Squawk Box\\,”\\; CNBC’ \\;s signature morning program. He is also the founder and editor-at-larg e of DealBook\\, an online daily financial report published by The New Yo rk Times that he started in 2001.‍He is the author of “\\;1929: Th e Inside Story of the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History&\\;and How It Shattered a Nation\\,”\\; the instant New York Times bestseller praised as a “\\;vivid and forensic account . . . a real eye-opener& #8221\\; (Financial Times). With unparalleled access to historical record s and newly uncovered documents\\, Sorkin’\\;s book takes readers in side the chaos of the crash\\, behind the scenes of a raging battle betwe en Wall Street and Washington and the larger-than-life characters whose a mbition and naivete in an endless boom led to disaster. The dizzying high s and brutal lows of this era eerily mirror today’\\;s world where m arkets soar\\, political tensions mount\\, and the fight over financial i nfluence plays out once again. The Wall Street Journal calls it “\\; one of the best narrative histories [we’\\;ve] read.”\\; It was named a Best Book of 2025 by TIME\\, The Economist\\, The Financial Time s and Bloomberg.\\nHailed as a landmark book\\, “\\;Too Big to Fail : How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System&\ \;and Themselves\\,”\\; is considered the definitive account of the 2008 financial crisis. It won the 2010 Gerald Loeb Award for Best Busines s Book\\, and was shortlisted for the 2010 Samuel Johnson Prize and the 2 010 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award. The book spent more than six months on the New York Times bestseller list in hardcover and pa perback and was adapted as a movie for HBO Films in 2011. Sorkin was a co -producer of the film\\, which was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards.\\nSorkin is also co-creator of the drama series “\\;Billions”\\; on Sho wtime starring Paul Giamatti and Damien Lewis.\\nSorkin is one the preemi nent interviewers in the nation\\, known for his incisive\\, nuanced long -form conversations with the biggest newsmakers in the world\\, from Elon Musk to LeBron James to Kim Kardashian and Hillary Clinton. In 2022\\, h e won the Emmy award for Outstanding Live Interview for his DealBook Summ it 2021 conversation with Adam Neumann\\, the WeWork co-founder’\\;s first public interview after the company’\\;s collapse.\\nOver the years\\, Sorkin has broken news of many major mergers and acquisitions in the pages of The Times and has been at the forefront of Wall Street news . He reported extensively on the financial crisis of 2008\\, its aftermat h on Wall Street and the government bailout of major investment banks\\, with coverage including the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers\ \, and the A.I.G. bailout. He has broken news of deals including Chase 217\\;s acquisition of J.P. Morgan and Hewlett-Packard’\\;s acquisit ion of Compaq. He also led The Times’\\;s coverage of Vodafone’ \\;s $183 billion hostile bid for Mannesmann\\, resulting in the world 217\\;s largest takeover ever.\\nAs a leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America\\, Sorkin is a frequent guest on national television a nd radio programs\\, as well as a lecturer at universities across the cou ntry. He has appeared on NBC’\\;s “\\;The Today Show\\,”\\ ; PBS’\\;s “\\;NewsHour\\,”\\; HBO’\\;s “\\;Real Time with Bill Maher\\,”\\; NPR’\\;s “\\;Talk of the Nati on\\,”\\; and many others.\\nHe won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2004 for breaking the news of I.B.M.’\\;s historic sale of its PC business to Lenovo. He was also a finalist in the commentary category for his DealBo ok column\\, and won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers A ward for breaking news in 2005 and again in 2006. In 2007\\, the World Ec onomic Forum named him a Young Global Leader. He is co-chair of The New Y ork Public Library’\\;s Business Leadership Council and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.‍Sorkin began writing for The New York Times in 1995 under unusual circumstances: he hadn’\\;t yet graduat ed from high school. He is a graduate of Cornell University.\\nhttps://ww w.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/buffalo/events/ub-distinguished-spe akers-series-andrew-ross-sorkin-2026-10-02 LOCATION:visitbuffalo.com URL:https://www.gayout.com/usa-canada/united-states/buffalo/events/ub-distinguished-speakers-series-andrew-ross-sorkin-2026-10-02 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR