Rebecca Baker

Female

RBakerNY

New York, NY

Rebecca Baker is a highly accomplished journalist and a competitive news gatherer who reports and writes stories that attract regional and national interest. Her work has been picked up by the Associated Press and followed by The New York Times and Bloomberg News, among other national media outlets. She is currently a staff writer for The Record, the second-largest newspaper in New Jersey, and was previously a reporter for The Journal NewsLoHud.com in New York, the New Haven Register in Connecticut and the Tribune-Chronicle in Ohio. Rebecca has appeared on several cable network television shows, including Nancy Grace to discuss breaking crime news, as well as American Greed and On the Case with Paula Zahn to discuss a high-profile murder trial that she covered. She also was a frequent guest on Crime and Justice with Dan Schorr, a New York-based radio program and podcast. Her interview subjects have included Hillary Clinton, Mike Tyson, Matthew Modine and Matt Dillon. Rebecca also is proficient in multi-platform storytelling using WordPress, iMovie and Photoshop, and in social media, including Vine, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Google In her spare time, Rebecca serves on the national board of the Society of Professional Journalists, the largest and most broad based journalism advocacy group in the country. She is one of regional directors, overseeing all professional and student chapters in the northeast U.S. IN , SPJ named her one of its outstanding members of the year for her work as president of The Deadline Club, its New York City chapter, where she remains chair of the board. read more ...