Peter Baker is an American author and newspaper reporter, who has worked for both The Washington Post and The New York Times.
He attended Oberlin College, and was a reporter for the student newspaper, The Oberlin Review.
With The Washington Post, he wrote numerous front-page articles and interviewed leaders including U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.[1] He was the Post's White House correspondent during the Clinton administration, and covered the Lewinsky scandal. He wrote a book based on his coverage, The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton, published by Scribner in 2000. He served as the Post's Moscow bureau chief, and wrote a book while there, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin and the Russian Counter-Revolution. While with the Post, Baker spent several months covering events in the Middle East and was embedded with the command of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.
Baker moved to the New York Times in Spring 2008.[2] He is currently a White House correspondent and has contributed to the New York Times Magazine.[3]