Sam Baker
Sam Baker is KERA's senior editor and local host for Morning Edition. The native of Beaumont, Texas, also edits and produces radio commentaries and Vital Signs, a series that's part of the station's Breakthroughs initiative. He also was the longtime host of KERA 13’s Emmy Award-winning public affairs program On the Record. He also won an Emmy in 2008 for KERA’s Sharing the Power: A Voter’s Voice Special, and has earned honors from the Associated Press and the Public Radio News Directors Inc.
Sam worked in commercial television at NBC and CBS affiliates for six years before moving to public broadcasting. He was news director and Morning Edition host at KWGS-FM in Tulsa, Okla., for three years and moved to KERA in 1991. He has served on the board of Public Radio News Directors Inc. and is a member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Association of Black Communicators.
As a volunteer, Sam produces a weekly series, Jazz in Words and Music, for Reading and Radio Resources, an agency serving the visually impaired. He also serves on the board of Southwest Transplant Alliance, a private non-profit organization that provides organs and tissues for transplantation.
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The study of prostate cancer patients in the VA system found some with limited life expectancy were being treated with procedures that did not add more years to their lives. -
Halloween often means heavy candy consumption, but a North Texas dietitian and nutritionist suggest ways to handle the sugar more responsibly. -
In a national survey, less than 20% of U.S. adults were concerned about respiratory viruses or interested in getting shots. A North Texas infectious diseases specialist talks about why. -
The immunizations provide individual protection, but a North Texas pediatrician says they’re also needed for herd immunity against diseases. -
A North Texas orthopedic surgeon blames the popularity of the sport and players not exercising as much care before playing as they should. -
Cases of stroke among people 20 to 44 have increased over the last decade. A neuro-intensivist with Texas Health Fort Worth explains why. -
A North Texas infectious disease specialist talks about why syphilis remains a problem, and why she thinks education is the solution. -
There's no cure for congestive heart failure, but a North Texas cardiologist talks with KERA's Sam Baker about how more walking can improve a patient's quality of life. -
A North Texas epidemiologist talks about why EG.5 has spread so quickly, and whether new booster shots expected this fall will be effective against the variant. -
Dallas, Denton and Tarrant counties have reported at least six human cases of the mosquito-borne disease that can affect the central nervous system or the brain.
