9/11 CEO Crisis Leadership in New York | Andrew Rosen | Hixecutive Breakout Session
September 11, 2001. Andrew Rosen was a radio CEO in the eye of the stormβleading over 600 employees across 5 New YorkΒ ...
Executive Vice President, Graham Holdings
Search every verified Andrew Rosen interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote β each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Andrew Rosen, executive vice president at Graham Holdings and former CEO of Kaplan, has spoken publicly about his experience leading radio stations during the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York. In a 2025 interview, he described the day as one for which he had no training, recalling that his primary mission was to keep employees safe and provide relevant information to listeners within the stations' signal. He noted that one station was lost on top of the World Trade Center and that the FCC allowed them to move its broadcast; staff created temporary studios at the Empire State Building. In a separate 2025 podcast appearance, Rosen discussed broadcast industry trends, stating that investing in digital assets is a core fundamental for broadcast groups and that artificial intelligence should be ingrained in operations to automate tasks and improve efficiency. He also commented on the creator economy in a 2022 interview, describing it as "thousands of permutations" enabled by new tools and platforms. In earlier appearances, Rosen advocated for higher education reform, proposing a "Learning Playbook" that would reward institutions based on learning outcomes, access, affordability, and accountability, and he drew historical parallels between criticism of land-grant colleges and modern scrutiny of for-profit institutions.
“Well, obviously like everyone else, everybody will never forget where we were and that day in particular β I remember we had a sales meeting and then a phone call: 'A plane just went into World Trade.' At first we treated it like a joke until we learned a second plane had hit and all of a sudden your world has changed.”
“As a leader of over 600 people in five different locations ... what do I do? How do I keep it calm? How do I prevent any loss of life? You don't have any training for that β none at all.”
“I immediately called corporate to let them know what the situation was β I didn't want them watching it on TV and not hear from their leader.”
“Our primary mission was to ensure that everyone within our signal β we were providing relevant information to keep them safe and aware of what was going on.”
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