SBU School of Journalism Presents

The “My Life As…” Series

Al Baker
“My Life as a New York Times Police Reporter”

Al Baker joined The Times in 2000 as a reporter on the Metropolitan Desk. He covered security issues and the NYPD after 9/11 and then joined the paper’s Albany bureau. In 2005, Baker was named chief of the Times bureau  at NYPD headquarters.
Baker's stories have hit a variety of themes — the drop in crime, the department’s counterterrorism efforts, the fatal police shooting of Sean Bell, the Bronx fire in March 2007 that killed nine members of an immigrant family and the fatal shootings of five police officers. The bureau broke news about the surge in street stops of civilians, police policy and politics and instances of officer wrongdoing.
Baker, a graduate of  SUNY Albany, also has worked at The Daily News and Newsday, where he was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009
 8:30 pm
Javits Lecture Hall Room 102

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