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Andrew Ross Sorkin: Money is the prism of everything.

Capital New York talked with Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC and the New York Times’ Dealbook about his work.

Here is an excerpt:

CAPITAL: Between “Squawk Box” and this primetime special, do you try to put on different hats when you do these different shows?

SORKIN: I would say that my whole career is effectively trying to be a storyteller within the context of financial news. I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the money, it explains a lot of things, in all sorts of aspects of the world. You can look at politics through the prism of money, you can look at art through the prism of money you can look at sports through the prism of money. To me, what we do on “Squawk Box” or what we are doing in the evening with this primetime special, or what I do at The New York Times, it is all part of a spectrum of things. They all reinforce the other.

Read more here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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