Peter Baker (Chief White House Correspondent, The New York Times)

Join WorldOregon for a candid discussion with Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, on the dramatic challenges of reporting domestic and international issues in a landscape of gear-shifting disruption and polycrisis.

Inarguably, in most of our lifetimes we have not borne witness or been participants in this accelerated level of change in the institutions of U.S. power and democracy. From these fundamental and seismic shifts in U.S. foreign policy that are upending 80 years of international rules-based order to domestic policies at odds with long-held nonpartisan notions of democracy, separation of powers and the courts, and basic constitutionally enshrined rights of citizens — how does journalism keep pace and maintain a stance of fact-based reporting in this moment? And what will be the role of the American leadership on the global stage as history continues to unfold?

This is an excellent and rare opportunity to engage one of the premiere journalists on the frontlines of domestic and international news in a conversation on where we're going and how we might get there. 

Peter Baker is the Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for MSNBC. He has covered the previous five presidents for The Times and The Washington Post. While at The Post, he also served as Moscow co-bureau chief, chronicling the rise of Vladimir Putin and the opening months of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is an author of seven books, including the best-selling The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, and The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III, both with his wife, Susan Glasser of The New Yorker. He is a frequent panelist on Washington Week on PBS.