Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
This week's cover story by Gabriel Sherman, Show Me the Money , takes a behind-the-scenes look at AIG's new CEO, Robert Benmosche, who is fighting government pay czar Kenneth Feinberg — and the populist wind at his back — for every penny he can get to pay his furious traders, who are threatening to walk and take the U.S. economy down with them. When you're done reading it,...
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... surrounding the events of the past several years. (See “ The Information Broker ,” by Gabriel Sherman .) Cassidy's "How Markets Fail," (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009) contains a history of the ideas that led up to the financial crisis with commentary relating to what is needed to prevent or modify the instability of capitalism. Cassidy’s personal favorite,...
2parse/blog (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Chinese Racism. Reiham Salam posits that China’s ethnocentrism will retard it’s development into a superpower – especially given the demographic obstacles it is facing thanks to it’s One Child Policy. Andrew Ross Sorkin’s Power. Gabriel Sherman describes the world of Andrew Ross Sorkin, star financial reporter for the New York Times, in New York magazine....
Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Gabriel Sherman profiles New York Times mergers and acquisitions reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin in the latest issue of New York magazine. Sherman writes, “To write about the game, you have to know the game. Sorkin has a deep and highly particularized knowledge of the deal-making landscape, a pressurized beat populated by PR advisers, bankers, lawyers, where [...]
SeekingAlpha Media Stocks (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Felix Salmon submits: Gabriel Sherman has a long profile of Andrew Ross Sorkin, which spends a lot of time talking about Sorkin’s problematic status within the NYT in general and the Sunday Business section in particular. But all big companies have internal politics. What’s interesting is what the story says about the NYT’s devotion, or otherwise, to serving its readers...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
New York They see him as far too cozy with his sources, reports Gabriel Sherman . "While [ Andrew Ross Sorkin ] has written critically about the financial mandarins he covers, a fawning quality can ooze into his prose that some other Timespeople find unbecoming," he writes. "Several compared Sorkin's relationship with the Wall Street elite to disgraced former Times reporter...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
A New York magazine profile of Andrew Ross Sorkin exposes more resentment among co-workers at the New York Times over his uncommon access to Wall Street's power brokers. Writes Gabriel Sherman, As Sorkin’s career has burgeoned, he’s developed another audience of close readers: his colleagues, who comb the column for evidence of favor-trading. In conversations with me, several...
Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... between O’Brien and Sorkin –- who broke the news of the Paulson waiver –- that became the peg of Gabriel Sherman’s story is fairly irrelevant to the success of the book (both as a document of the financial meltdown and as a bestseller.) “Buried in the story may be the bigger issue, Sorkin’s lack of interest in writing negatively about Cerberus and Blackstone, Cerberus’s Feinberg was...
felixsalmon.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Gabriel Sherman has a long profile of Andrew Ross Sorkin, which spends a lot of time talking about Sorkin's problematic status within the NYT in general and the Sunday Business section in particular. But all big companies have internal politics. What's interesting is what the story says about the NYT's devotion, or otherwise, to serving its readers by giving them the information they...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
New York Jared Kushner and Andrew Ross Sorkin met about three weeks ago, but their talks never went very far, reports Gabriel Sherman , who profiles the Times reporter for next week's New York mag. Last March, Kushner had also tried to recruit Sorkin to succeed longtime editor Peter Kaplan .
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... But a source close to Kushner says talks never progressed to that point. Read more posts by Gabriel Sherman Filed Under: andrew ross sorkin , business , ink-stained wretches , jared kushner , media , observer
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... between O’Brien and Sorkin–who broke the news of the Paulson waiver–that became the peg of Gabriel Sherman’s story is fairly irrelevant to the success of the book (both as a document of the financial meltdown and as a bestseller.) Buried in the story may be the bigger issue, Sorkin’s lack of interest in writing negatively about Cerberus and Blackstone, Cerberus’s Feinberg was one...
Talking Biz News (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... editor of Silicon Alley Insider after Condé Nast shuttered the business magazine.” In addition, Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine writes, “In addition to being a best-seller, Sorkin has been fielding job offers. New York Observer owner Jared Kushner tried recruiting Sorkin twice during the past year. Most recently, he talked to Sorkin last month about taking over the paper before...
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Observer owner , according to New York.The 28-year-old publisher and the 32-year-old reporter and author of Too Big to Fail talked as recently as last month about the top editor job at the Observer, Gabriel Sherman reports. But Sorkin demurred, and some Observer staffers speculate that talks may have stalled because Sorkin wanted an equity stake in the paper. Kushner settled on former...
The Plank (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
... Scheiber The Owner of ‘Politico’ Is Trying to Damage the ‘Post.’ Again. by Gabriel Sherman We Finally Get to See the Senate Climate Bill. We’re Not Encouraged. by Mark Muro Sudan’s Dogged Attempts to Hire Washington Lobbyists , by Barron YoungSmith One of the Cheapest Way to Reduce Carbon Emissions? Stop Cutting Down Trees! by Jesse Zwick As always,...
