Restoring Trust in the Media in an Age of Disinformation with Peter Baker

Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times, admittedly wasn’t the best student at Oberlin. He was so wrapped up in his dreams of becoming a journalist, he spent more time down at the campus newspaper than in his classes. But the work paid off. During his career, Peter visited Robben Island in South Africa with Nelson Mandela and once nearly knocked over the Queen of England during a press scrum at an international summit meeting.Following the attacks of 9/11, he was the first American journalist to report from Afghanistan where he embedded with troops as coalition forces fought the Taliban. During the US invasion of Iraq, he rode with the Marines as they drove toward Baghdad. Peter has covered the past five presidents, from Bill Clinton to Joe Biden. During a break from the White House, he spent four years in Moscow for The Washington Post, chronicling the rise of Vladimir Putin with wife Susan Glasser. The pair penned Kremlin Rising about Putin’s Russia and, most recently, co-authored the New York Times bestseller The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021.On this episode of Running to the Noise, Peter talks with host and Oberlin College and Conservatory President Carmen Twillie Ambar about the erosion of trust in the media,  the state of truth in America, and what he’s learned covering some of the most powerful men in the world.Episode Links:Peter Baker ’88 delivers the commencement keynote address to the class of 2021Peter’s bio and his latest work at the New York Times Peter on MSNBCThe Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser