DealBook Founder Marks 25th Anniversary, Tracing Newsletter's Rise Beyond Wall Street
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 8
DealBook Founder Marks 25th Anniversary, Tracing Newsletter's Rise Beyond Wall Street
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 8
Summary
Twenty-five years after sending the first DealBook from a Manhattan apartment, founder Andrew Ross Sorkin said the newsletter has evolved from a deals-focused briefing into a broader chronicle of money and power.
The anniversary reflection argues that DealBook was built to tell readers what they needed before a 9 a.m. meeting — both the dominant business stories and the overlooked ones.
Sorkin said the publication launched in a very different era, weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, when Wall Street still dominated, Silicon Valley was reeling from the dot-com bust, and social media, bitcoin and modern A.I. had yet to emerge.
After the financial crisis, he wrote, DealBook's audience expanded to Congress, the White House and regulators as business and politics became more tightly intertwined.
The piece frames that 25-year arc as a mission to report critically without taking sides, using accountability to explain how power works rather than simply assign blame.