Education
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Baker is the Senior Correspondent for East! News as well as the host of East! Online"s daily web show Live From East!. Baker earned a liberal arts degree from Colgate University and a master"s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He began his journalism career as a news assistant for American Broadcasting Company News in the Washington bureau.
He later worked as a reporter at the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia.
In 1996, Baker became a Los Angeles-based correspondent for People magazine. In 1999, he became the magazine"s Northwest correspondent, based in Northern California.
Baker later was named West Coast Bureau Chief for Us Weekly as well as the West Coast Executive Editor and Editorial Director of Usmagazine.com. He went on to become Senior Correspondent for East! News as well as the host of East! Online"s daily web show Live From East!.
Baker appears on Fox News Channel, The Today Show, Cable News Network, Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company and HLN. There are plenty of cops, private eyes, lawyers, and a lot of bloody vampires.
Baker is a speaker at schools and community/charity events. Baker played hockey at Colgate University from 1988 to 1992 and played on its ECAC Championship Team in 1990. Baker also played professional hockey for the Bakersfield Condors and the Quad City Mallards after 10 years of not playing.
He wrote a book about his experience, They Don"t Play Hockey in Heaven ().
Baker previously worked as a columnist for National Hockey League.com, and coaches youth hockey.
I think a lot of the romanticism of the journalism profession that inspired me when I entered it in the early 1990s has been lost. A lot of the cynicism is deserved.”.
Baker is also a member of the Advisory Board of the National Hockey League"s Los Angeles Kings.