About me
Dr. William Baker directs the Bernard L. Schwartz Center for Media, Education, and Public Policy at Fordham University, where he is also Journalist-in-Residence and a professor in the Graduate School of Education. He is a distinguished professor at IESE Business School (ranked #1 globally by The Economist) and is President Emeritus of WNET, New York’s public media. Baker is the recipient of seven Emmy Awards and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. During his broadcasting career, Baker was President of Westinghouse Television, which later became CBS. He established PM Magazines the #1 syndicated program in America in the1980s, introduced Oprah and Charlie Rose as talk show hosts, and launched the Discovery Channel and the Disney Channel.