A conversation with Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker and Dean Susan King

Gerard Baker — editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal — spoke with UNC School of Media and Journalism Dean Susan King in the Carolina News Studio on Nov. 17, 2014. Later that day, Baker gave the school's Nelson Benton Lecture in collaboration with the Carolina Seminar on Business Journalism and Public Policy. The event was co-sponsored by UNC Public Policy.

Before becoming editor-in-chief Jan. 1, 2013, Baker served as deputy editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires.

Prior the Journal, Baker was the U.S. editor and an assistant editor of The Times in London, where he wrote news and commentary for Britain’s longest continuously published newspaper and oversaw U.S. coverage for the paper and online editions.

From 1994 to 2004, Baker worked for the Financial Times, first as Tokyo correspondent, where he wrote about the country’s financial crisis, and then, from 1998 to 2002, as Washington bureau chief, where he led a team of 10 correspondents and provided extensive reporting and analysis of the Federal Reserve. From 2002 to 2004, he was chief U.S. commentator and an associate editor of the Financial Times.

Baker also worked for the BBC from 1988 to 1994, as a producer, then as U.S. producer, and finally as economics correspondent for TV and radio.

[kalkalasch]

the opinion voice is indeed conservative, which is the best part.

[easyrider]

Baker is all over trump, a deeply biased and unpleasant supporter of obtuse right wing politics.