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Peter Baker is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter Baker's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He graduated from Oberlin College in 1988.
He is the author of several political books, including Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House (2013) and Obama: The Call of History (2017).
Baker was born in 1967, the son of Linda Gross (later Sinrod) and E. P. Baker. His father was a lawyer and his mother a computer programmer. He attended Oberlin College.
In May 2005, Baker published his second book, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin’s Russia and the End of Revolution through Scribner, with Susan Glasser, a detailed accounting of Vladimir Putin’s consolidation of power during his first term as President of Russia. It was later named one of the Best Books of 2005 by The Washington Post Book World. While serving as White House correspondent for The Washington Post, he won the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency in 2007 for his “exceptionally trenchant appraisal” of the achievements and shortfalls of the second year of President George W. Bush’s second term in office. After joining The New York Times, he received the 2011 Aldo Beckman Memorial Award for his “remarkable run” of detailed coverage of the second year of President Obama’s first term. He again won the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency and the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award in 2015.
Prior to joining The New York Times in 2008, Baker was a reporter for 20 years at The Washington Post, where he covered the White House during the presidencies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. During his first tour at the White House, Baker co-authored the paper’s first story about the Lewinsky scandal and served as the paper’s lead writer during the subsequent impeachment battle. He subsequently published his first book, The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton through Scribner, a New York Times bestseller based on his coverage of the impeachment proceedings in Congress. During his next White House assignment, he covered the travails of Bush’s second term, from the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina to Supreme Court nomination fights and the economy.
