Sam Baker
Senior Editor and Morning Edition HostSam 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 for seven years produced a weekly series, Jazz in Words and Music, for Reading and Radio Resources, an agency serving the visually impaired. He is also a former member on the board of Southwest Transplant Alliance, a private nonprofit organization that provides organs and tissues for transplantation.
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Early detection is key to successful treatment of breast cancer. A breast surgical oncologist warns delayed or canceled mammograms can lead to diagnoses at later stages. -
Dr. Philip Huang tells KERA, "We're starting to see the numbers go back up again." He also explains how the county is upgrading systems to get more timely data.
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Oct. 1 marked the official beginning of flu season. An emergency room physician in North Texas explains what bothers the health community about having flu season amid a pandemic.
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Tarrant County Democratic Party Chairperson Deborah Peoples has seen this before in her more than seven years in that role. She talked with KERA's Sam Baker about why she's hopeful about voter participation this time around.
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For patients who don't have insurance or can't afford a primary care physician, the convenience of mail-in testing has helped expand colon cancer screening.
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Cancer cells can spread from one organ to another by directly entering the bloodstream. But more often it’s after the cells enter the blood through the lymph nodes. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center now believe they know why.
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A recent study found a link between gum disease and dementia. The team compared different age groups at baseline, with up to 26 years of follow-up, for more than 6,000 participants.
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The center's received regional reports of at least 46 cases of ingestion or overexposure to bleach since Aug. 1. A few involved attempts to avoid or stop COVID-19.
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The Arlington school district is asking voters to approve a property tax rate increase of 8.84 cents per $100 of property value. The increase would mean the property tax bill on the average house, appraised at $208,985, would increase by $162.73 annually.
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A medical professional shares guidelines for keeping your mask effective against the spread of coronavirus.
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A baby girl born prematurely at Parkland Hospital in May is believed to be the first in Texas — and one of the first in the U.S. — to become infected with…
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Until there’s a vaccine, health officials, including Dallas COVID-19 Czar Kelvin Baggett, say your best defense against coronavirus remains good hygiene,…
