Andrew Rosen on 9/11
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“Well, obviously like everyone else, everybody will never forget where we were and that day in particular — 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.”
On , Andrew Rosen, Executive Vice President at GRAHAM HOLDINGS CO, spoke about 9/11 during 9/11 CEO Crisis Leadership in New York | Andrew Rosen | Hixecutive Breakout Session on Hixecutive Sessions.
About Andrew Rosen
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.