Peter Baker

Peter Baker, Chief White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC, established his career covering six presidencies and major domestic and international events. Joining The Washington Post in 1988 as a reporter, he spent 20 years covering the White House during the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. During this period, Baker notably co-authored the paper’s inaugural story on the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and spearheaded coverage of the subsequent impeachment proceedings.

His exceptional reporting was honored with the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency in 2007. In 2008, Baker joined The New York Times, continuing his award-winning journalism. He was recognized with the Aldo Beckman Memorial Award in 2011 and again in 2015, the latter alongside another Gerald R.

Ford Journalism Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. His third book, ‘Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House,’ published in October 2013, was listed among The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of 2013. After a brief assignment as the Jerusalem bureau chief for the Times, he returned to the White House beat in December 2016 to cover the Trump administration. Baker has since authored or co-authored several more influential books, including ‘Obama: The Call of History’ (2017) and ‘Impeachment: An American History’ (2018).

With Susan Glasser, he co-authored ‘The Man Who Ran Washington’ (2020) and ‘The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021’ (September 2022). Currently, he serves as a political analyst for MSNBC and is a regular panelist on PBS’s ‘Washington Week,’ continuing to provide expert analysis on American politics and the six presidencies he has covered from Bill Clinton through Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Donald J.

Trump.