A veteran Hollywood journalist, author and TV commentator, Ken Baker is E!'s Executive News Editor, directing newsgathering and conducting celebrity interviews for the network's various news platforms—including E! News, Daily 10, Eonline and E! satellite radio.

Baker holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a liberal arts degree from Colgate University. He began his journalism career as a news assistant for David Brinkley and Ted Koppel at the Washington bureau of ABC News. After newspaper stints with the Buffalo News and the Daily Press of Virginia, Baker entered the magazine ranks.

He has written three books. His critically acclaimed Man Made: A Memoir of My Body (Tarcher Putnam, 2001) told the story of his battle with a brain tumor (a movie adaptation is currently in development). Baker's second memoir, They Don't Play Hockey in Heaven: A Dream, a Team and My Comeback Season (Lyons Press, 2003), chronicled the season he spent as pro hockey's oldest rookie. And his fiction debut, Hollywood Hussein (Verona, 2005), is a satirical take on the capture of Saddam Hussein. Baker is currently at work on his fourth book.

Prior to joining E!, Baker held the title of Us Weekly's West Coast bureau chief, West Coast executive editor and editorial director of Usmagazine.com, overseeing the successful relaunch of the magazine's website. But Baker was a familiar face on the network, appearing regularly on E! News, Live from the Red Carpet, True Hollywood Story, Chelsea Lately and numerous E! News specials.

Baker previously worked as a staff correspondent for People magazine, where he reported on celebrity and human-interest stories. Starting in 1996 as an L.A.-based correspondent, Baker was promoted to People's Northwest correspondent based in Northern California in 1999.

Baker has appeared as an expert on Fox News Channel, Today Show, MSNBC and CNN. He also delivers exclusive radio reports for Ryan Seacrest's show on L.A.'s KIIS-FM. Baker is the founder of nonprofit organization Head to Hollywood, which gives brain-tumor patients access to Hollywood events. He and his wife live in L.A. with their two children and a black lab named Arthur Fonzarelli.