Andrew Ross Sorkin Joining CNBC’s Squawk Box as Permanent Co-Host
CNBC announced today that New York Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin is taking over as co-host of the program Squawk Box.
An internal memo sent out to CNBC staff explained that Sorkin is replacing former co-host Carl Quintanilla, who left the program earlier this week for the network’s morning show Squawk on the Street, a position he took after the immediate departure of Erin Burnett to CNN in April and the recent death of longtime CNBC anchor Mark Haines.
CNBC senior vice president Nikhil Deogun sent out the internal memo to network employees earlier today.
Replacing Carl on Squawk Box is no easy task, but we are thrilled to announce that Andrew Ross Sorkin is joining the CNBC team to co-host Squawk Box every morning with Joe and Becky…
As a CNBC contributor, Andrew has long been an extended member of both the CNBC and Squawk families, and we’re pleased he will now be a part of our morning team… Andrew will continue to write his widely read column for The New York Times, which has an online partnership with CNBC, as well as help oversee DealBook, the online news site he founded.
Sorkin has written for the Times and edited the site’s DealBook for over ten years, but it was his 2010 book Too Big To Fail, his story of how the global financial crisis began, that catapuled him into the financial spotlight. The book was on the New York Times bestseller list for roughly six months, and was adapted into an HBO TV movie that was released this May.
Sorkin is the latest newspaper columnist taking on a contributing role at a major news network, following in the footsteps of journalists such as The Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein, who also works as a contributor for MSNBC. However, none of these columnists host cable news programs, so Sorkin, with his new role as permanent co-host, will have more responsibilities for his network and the Times than most other columnists on television.
Sorkin tells Mediaite he’s looking forward to his new role at the network:
“I’ve been watching Squawk for years. The opportunity to be part of the conversation every morning is unbelievably exciting. I’m going to have to start going to bed very early! Between Squawk in the morning and writing for The New York Times, there are going to be some long days. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
