Ken Baker (entertainment journalist)
{{Short description|American entertainment journalist and author}}
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Kenneth Joel Baker is an American entertainment journalist and author who is the senior correspondent for E! News as well as the host of E! Online's daily web show Live From E!.
Education and career
He began his journalism career as a news assistant for ABC News in the Washington bureau.{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/on/personalities/bio/ken.jsp |title=Ken's Bio |publisher=E! Online |date= |accessdate=2011-09-17 | archivedate= April 22, 2012 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120422062012/http://www.eonline.com/on/personalities/bio/ken.jsp}} He later worked as a reporter at the Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia.
In 1996, Baker became a Los Angeles-based correspondent for People magazine. In 1999, he became the magazine's Northwest correspondent, based in Northern California. Baker later was named West Coast Bureau Chief for Us Weekly as well as the West Coast executive editor and editorial director of Usmagazine.com. He went on to become senior correspondent for E! News as well as the host of E! Online's daily web show Live From E!.{{cite web|url=http://www.eonline.com/news/live_from_e | title=Live from E!| publisher= E! | accessdate=March 23, 2015}}
Baker appears on Fox News Channel, The Today Show, CNN, MSNBC and HLN. In October 2017, Baker was pulled from the air by E! News while they investigated claims of sexual harassment.[https://www.thedailybeast.com/e-news-correspondent-ken-baker-accused-of-sexual-harassment E! News Correspondent Ken Baker Accused of Sexual Harassment][https://www.thewrap.com/ken-baker-e-news-sexual-harassment-from-an-unwanted-kiss-to-a-text-about-a-sex-toy/ E! News’ Ken Baker Accused of Sexual Harassment, From an Unwanted Kiss to a Sex-Toy Text (Photo)][https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/10/us/men-accused-sexual-misconduct-weinstein.html After Weinstein: A List of Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct and the Fallout for Each]
Author
Baker has written numerous books. In 2001, Baker published Man Made: A Memoir of My Body{{cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/MAN-ALIVE-A-life-threatening-illness-forced-2938431.php |title=Man Alive |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=2001-03-25 |access-date=2011-09-17}} which tells the story of his battle with a prolactinoma.{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2012/film/news/elijah-wood-is-a-late-bloomer-1118060115/|title=Elijah Wood is a 'Late Bloomer' | work=Variety |date=October 1, 2012 |accessdate=2015-03-23}} The 2016 film The Late Bloomer is an adaptation of this memoir.{{Cite web|title = Ken Baker on His 'Late Bloomer' Big Screen Adaptation With J.K. Simmons, Brittany Snow|url = http://www.thewrap.com/ken-baker-on-his-late-bloomer-big-screen-adaptation-with-j-k-simmons-brittany-snow/|accessdate = 2015-09-01}}
Baker's second memoir, They Don't Play Hockey in Heaven: A Dream, a Team and My Comeback Season{{cite web|author=Teebz |url=http://hockey-blog-in-canada.blogspot.com/2009/09/tbc-they-dont-play-hockey-in-heaven.html |title=They Don't Play Hockey In Heaven |publisher=Hockey Blog In Canada |date=2009-09-22 |accessdate=2011-09-17}} chronicled the season he spent as pro hockey's oldest rookie, published in 2003. Published in 2005, Hollywood Hussein{{cite web|first=Ken | last = Baker |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2757912.Hollywood_Hussein |title=Hollywood Hussein: How the U.S. Really Captured Saddam|publisher=Goodreads.com |date= |accessdate=2011-09-17}} is a satirical take on the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Baker also co-authored The Great Eight: How to Be Happy (even when you have every reason to be miserable){{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna28505633 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203134012/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/28505633/ns/today-books |url-status=live |archive-date=2010-12-03 |title=To find happiness, turn losses into wins |publisher=MSNBC |date=2009-01-06 |access-date=2011-09-17}} in 2009. In 2012, Baker published his first young adult novel, Fangirl, which tells the story of a fictional pop star who falls in love with a fan.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Fangirl-Ken-Baker/dp/B00BQB1CSG |title= Fangirl Ken Baker |work=Amazon.com}} In 2014, he published the novel How I Got Skinny, Famous and Fell Madly in Love.
Also in 2014, Baker contracted with Perseus Books Group's Running Press to write a series of novels called Deadline Diaries. The series of thrillers will tell the story of a teenage celebrity blogger working to uncover Hollywood mysteries.{{Cite web|title = E! Correspondent Ken Baker Lands Book Series Deal About Teen Celebrity Blogger (Exclusive)|url = http://www.thewrap.com/e-correspondent-ken-baker-book-series-deal/|accessdate = 2015-09-01}} The first of the series, Finding Forever, was published in September 2015.{{Cite web|title = Full Details : Finding Forever|url = http://www.runningpress.com/book/deadline-diaries-finding-forever/9780762458172|website = www.runningpress.com|accessdate = 2015-09-01|first = World|last = Archipelago}}
Philanthropy
Baker is a speaker at schools and community/charity events. He has hosted the LAPD Hollenbeck PAL Awards Gala.{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/54976990 | title=Ken Baker & LAPD Hollenbeck PAL Partner for L.A. Youth}} Baker is also a member of the advisory board of the NHL's Los Angeles Kings.{{cite web|url=http://kings.nhl.com/ |title=Los Angeles Kings |publisher=Kings.nhl.com |date=2011-04-25 |accessdate=2011-09-17}}
Sports
Baker played hockey at Colgate University from 1988 to 1992{{cite web|url=http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/leagues/seasons/teams/0005491991.html |title=1990-91 Colgate University [ECAC] roster and player statistics at |publisher=Hockeydb.com |date= |accessdate=2011-09-17}} and played on its ECAC Championship Team in 1990.{{Citation needed|date=July 2013}}
Baker also played professional hockey for the Bakersfield Condors and the Quad City Mallards after 10 years of not playing. He wrote a book about his experience, They Don't Play Hockey in Heaven ({{ISBN|1592286054}}).{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig8TRj5p5Zs |title=Ken Baker's First Professional Hockey Win 4-6-02 |publisher=YouTube |date=2010-10-10 |accessdate=2011-09-17}}
Baker previously worked as a columnist for NHL.com,{{cite web|url=http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=631278 |title=Baker: The Mystery of Jonathan Quick Revealed |publisher=NHL.com |date =May 10, 2012 |accessdate=2015-03-24}} and coaches youth hockey.{{cite web|url=http://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/good-kings-fan/ |title=It's Good to be a Kings fan |work=Los Angeles |date=December 2, 2014 |accessdate=2015-03-24| archivedate=June 20, 2012| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620152706/http://kings.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=631278 | url-status=live}}
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External links
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Category:American male journalists
Category:Entertainment journalists
Category:Bakersfield Condors (1998–2015) players
Category:Colgate Raiders men's ice hockey players
Category:Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Category:Quad City Mallards (UHL) players
Category:Writers from New York (state)