Gerard Baker was Dow Jones' Managing Editor, and The Wall Street Journals Editor-in-Chief from March 2013 until June 2018.
16 Facts About Gerard Baker
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Gerard Baker was succeeded by WSJ executive editor Matt Murray.
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Gerard Baker was educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, United Kingdom and holds a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
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Gerard Baker was left-of-centre during his university years, and was elected as a Labour vice-president of the student union.
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From 1988 to 1994, Gerard Baker worked for the BBC as a producer in the UK and in the US, and worked as economics correspondent for BBC Radio and television.
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From 1994 to 2004, Gerard Baker worked for the Financial Times.
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From 2004 to 2009, Gerard Baker worked for The Times as its US editor and as an assistant editor.
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In January 2009, Gerard Baker moved to The Wall Street Journal, becoming the newspaper's deputy editor-in-chief.
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Gerard Baker's tenure at the Journal was a tumultuous one, with buyouts, layoffs and discontent among some reporters.
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In November 2015, Gerard Baker was one of the moderators at the fourth Republican primary debate during the 2016 presidential primaries.
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Gerard Baker was the first British-born moderator of a US presidential debate.
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Gerard Baker's performance became an issue on social media, with The Daily Telegraph reporting that Gerard Baker had "bemused" and "flummoxed" America.
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Gerard Baker was John Carreyrou's editor when the latter investigated and reported on the Theranos scandal for the Journal.
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In 2016 and 2017, the Journal leadership under Gerard Baker was criticised, both from the outside and from within the newsroom, who viewed the paper's coverage of President Donald Trump as too timid.
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At a town-hall-style meeting with Journal staff in February 2017, Gerard Baker defended the paper's coverage, saying that it was objective and protected the paper from being "dragged into the political process" through a dispute with the Trump administration.
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On 25 January 2021, five days after the inauguration of Joe Biden, Gerard Baker wrote an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal in which he insinuated that under the Biden presidency, Trump supporters would be forced to enter Democratic "re-education programs".