Ken Baker | |||
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Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||
Weight | 170 lb (77 kg; 12 st 2 lb) | ||
Position | Goaltender | ||
Caught | Right | ||
Played for |
Bakersfield Condors (WCHL) Quad City Mallards (UHL) |
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NHL Draft | Undrafted | ||
Playing career | 2001–2002 |
Ken Baker is an American journalist, author, former pro athlete and television news personality. Baker is the Senior Correspondent for E! News as well as the host of E! Online's daily web show Live From E!.
Baker earned a liberal arts degree from Colgate University and a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
He began his journalism career as a news assistant for ABC News in the Washington bureau. 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!.
Baker appears on Fox News Channel, The Today Show, CNN, MSNBC and HLN.
Baker has written numerous books. In 2001, Baker published Man Made: A Memoir of My Body which tells the story of his battle with a prolactinoma.
A film adaption of Baker’s memoir began production in Los Angeles and Bulgaria in August 2015, directed by Kevin Pollak. About the film, Baker has said: “It’s surreal looking at some of the rough cuts of the scenes. It’s like a parallel universe, this guy going through some really similar things."