Peter Baker Biography
Peter Eleftherios Baker is an American author and journalist. He is the main White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. He was a reporter for The Washington Post for 20 years.
Peter Baker Age
Baker was born Peter Eleftherios Baker on July 2, 1967 in Fairfax, Virginia, United States of America. He is 56 years old as of July 2023.
Peter Baker Education
Baker studied at Oberlin College from 1984 to 1986, where he worked as a reporter and editor for the student newspaper The Oberlin Review. Baker departed Oberlin at the school’s request because, he claimed, he “was not a good student.” Baker never finished the curriculum for an earned degree, but he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts by the school in 2021.
Peter Baker Family-Parents
Baker was born and raised in in Fairfax, Virginia, United States, the son of Linda Gross and E. P. Baker. His mother was a computer programmer and his father was an attorney.
Peter Baker Wife- Spouse
He has been married to Susan Glasser since September 2000. They have one child.
Peter Baker Career
After college, Baker spent two years working for The Washington Times. He later joined The Washington Post in 1988 as a correspondent covering Virginia news. He spent 20 years there, covering the White House under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. During his first tour at the White House, Baker co-wrote the paper’s first piece about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and was the senior writer during the subsequent impeachment process. He then released his first book, The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton, with Scribner, which became a New York Times bestseller based on his coverage of the impeachment process in Congress.
In between White House stints, Baker and his wife, Susan Glasser, worked as Moscow bureau chiefs for four years, covering the ascent of Vladimir Putin, the erosion of Russian democracy, the Second Chechen War, a terrorist attack on a Moscow theater, and the Beslan school hostage situation. Baker covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was the first American newspaper journalist to report from rebel-held northern Afghanistan following September 11, 2001, and he spent the next eight months chronicling the Taliban’s overthrow and the establishment of a new administration. He later spent six months in the Middle East, reporting from within Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and throughout the area before joining the US Marines as they moved toward Baghdad.
The Washington Post Book World went on to designate it one of the best books of 2005. In 2007, while working as The Washington Post’s White House correspondent, he received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency for his “exceptionally trenchant appraisal” of President George W. Bush’s second year in office. Baker joined The New York Times in 2008, following a 20-year stint with The Washington Post. He got the 2011 Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for his “remarkable run” of in-depth coverage of President Obama’s second year in office. He once again received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency.
Baker’s third book, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, was published by Doubleday in October 2013. It is a full narrative account of George W. Bush’s two-term presidency. The New York Times Book Review later named it one of the ten best books of 2013. He published his fourth book, Obama: The Call of History, a coffeetable edition about President Obama’s two terms in office, with New York Times/Callaway in June of 2017. In November 2017, it received an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography. Baker was moved to the White House beat for the impending Trump administration in December 2016, following a brief stint as the Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief.
Baker and Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, and Jeffrey A. Engel co-authored Impeachment: An American History, which was published by Random House in October of 2018. An revised and considerably extended edition of Obama’s book will be released as a regular book in May 2019. He and Glasser also penned a biography of former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, which was released by Doubleday in 2020. In addition to his work for MSNBC, Baker is a frequent panelist on PBS’s Washington Week. A third book, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, co-authored by him and his wife, Susan Glasser, was released in September 2022.
Peter Baker Net Worth
Baker has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollar.