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What Andrew Ross Sorkin reads

Andrew Ross Sorkin, who oversees the Dealbook site for the New York Times and writes a column in the Tuesday business section, talked with Erik Hayden of The Atlantic about what he reads to keep up with business and financial news.

Sorkin said:

I first hit The New York Times front page, business section and op-eds (I circle back to the other sections later); The Wall Street Journal’s front page, Marketplace section, Money & Investing Section and op-eds, Financial Times columnists and Lex, New York Post, Drudge Report, Huffington Post (I skim the homepage), CNBC’s middle column on the homepage and I check to see what happened on The Daily Show and Colbert Report from the night before. I’m not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about. And, of course, I go to DealBook!
At 5:30am, I flip between World Wide Exchange on CNBC to get a sense of the markets and Way Too Early on MSNBC with my friend Willie Geist, which somehow manages to pack virtually every bit of news you’d ever need to know into less than 30 minutes.
After Squawk Box (from 6am to 9am EST), usually on my way to The New York Times, I do a check of The New York Times‘ Economix, The Wall Street Journal‘s Marketbeat and Deal Journal blogs, FT’s Alphaville, CNBC, Bloomberg, Romenesko, TVNewser, DealBreaker, BreakingViews, The Washington Post‘s WonkBook, The Drudge Report and, yes, The Atlantic. I’m also a big fan of Politico’s Morning Money by Ben White (he’s a friend and a former colleague) and Playbook by my pal Mike Allen. I read those emails religiously.
On Twitter, I have two accounts. One is very public @andrewrsorkin. The other, which I don’t really want to publicize, I use as a news reader to keep up with the news. I keep them separate because I follow a lot of people on the public one and I find if I need quick uncluttered view of what folks in the world of finance and the economy are saying, my private account makes it a lot easier to scan what’s going on. If I could only follow one person on Twitter it would be Heidi Moore. She’s a financial journalist at NPR’s Marketplace. (She did some writing for DealBook a while back.) She’s a tweeting machine and always finds the juiciest morsels.

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sallyH says:
November 23, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Who cares what Sorkin reads? he's a personalityj not a working reporter. It would be more instructive to hear from people who actually have to make phone calls and work sources for a living, not pseudo celebs