During his time at the Washinton Post, he has also been the paper's Moscow bureau co-chief (with his wife Susan Glasser, before his stint as Chief White House correspondent in the Post's Washington, DC bureau.
Baker and his wife, Susan Glasser, were married in a civil (non-religious) ceremony.
Co-writer of the original story/article breaking the Monica Lewinsky scandal for the Washington Post.
With wife Susan Glasser, parents of a son named Theodore.