Guests: William Baker RSS

2009:

  1. A conversation with author Bill Baker
    Duration
    15 min
    Comments
    8 comments
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  2. Daily Highlights Thursday February 5, 2009
    Duration
    5 min
    Comments
    2 comments
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1998:

  1. A conversation about the state of television with William Baker
    Duration
    18 min
    Comments
    1 comment
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    * * *

William F. Baker, Ph.D. is Executive in Residence at Columbia University School of Business, Journalist in Residence at Fordham University and the Claudio Aquaviva Chair at the Graduate School of Education, and President Emeritus of Educational Broadcasting Corporation, parent company of WNET-TV (Channel Thirteen) and WLIW-TV (Channel 21), where he served for 20 years as Chief Executive Officer. He has been called an icon of public television for producing some of the industry’s most respected and popular programs, including Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers Journal, Nature, Cyberchase, and Great Performances. Among numerous honors, he has won seven Emmys and two Columbia Dupont Journalism awards, and was named to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Management Hall of Fame and the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. In 2008, he was appointed as a senior research fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University.