For the satirical writer, see Russell Baker
Russ Baker is an American investigative journalist. His themes are politics, secrecy and abuses of power. He has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, Esquire, Slate and Salon, and served as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review.[1][2][3]
His reporting on George W. Bush's military record received a 2005 Deadline Club award.
He is the founder of WhoWhatWhy/The Real News Project, a nonprofit organization for investigative journalism.
He published his first book, Family of Secrets: The Bush Family, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America, in 2009. This book has been reviewed by many print and electronic journals.[4][5][6][7][8]
He received an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, and a BA in Political Science from UCLA.
References
- ^ - "'Scoops' and Truth at the Times," The Nation, June 5, 2003
- ^ - "Portrait of a political 'pit bull,'" Salon, December 22, 1998
- ^ - "I'm The Other Guy," The New York Times, May 6, 2002
- ^ "Family of Secrets", Lev Grossman, Time Magazine, December 17, 2008
- ^ Book Review Tim Rutten. "'Family of Secrets' by Russ Baker". Los Angeles Times, January 7, 2009
- ^ Behind Every Rock, a Bush Washington Post
- ^ "Baker Blitzes Bush Fam for Bloomsbury, Has Big Bash!", by Leon Neyfakh, January 6, 2009, The New York Observer
- ^ "Why book on George Bush lacks depth", by Tim Rutten, Business Daily (Kenya), February 5, 2009
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