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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Sales are up more than 9% over last year. The median price for Dallas, Tarrant, Collin and Denton counties exceeds $300,000. -
An online survey of more than 7,700 adults found a majority gained at least 1 1/2 pounds per month during the pandemic. Dr. Tu Le has seen proof among his own patients. The interventional cardiologist with Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Hurst-Euless-Bedford told KERA’s Sam Baker lifestyle changes are to blame.
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Turning the clocks back to daylight saving time provided an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day at the expense of an hour's sleep in the beginning.
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Between Oct. 1 of last year and Jan. 30, there were 98% fewer flu hospitalizations than during the same time the previous season.
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Study Shows Latino Adults More Likely To Receive Late-Stage Colon Cancer Diagnosis Than White AdultsStudies found Latino adults are more likely to be diagnosed in later stages than white adults. KERA’s Sam Baker spoke with Dr. Roberto Rodriguez, a colorectal surgery specialist in Dallas with Texas Oncology Surgical Specialists, about the findings.
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Findings by scientists at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a new way in which exercise strengthens bones and immune function.
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Heart disease now tops breast cancer as the leading cause of death for women.
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A Pew Research Poll done in late 2020 found less than half of Black adults said they would get the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Many who survive COVID-19 go back to life as normal. But a few after the worst of it experience lingering physical and/or mental symptoms that go on for weeks or even a few months.
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Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. made a vow to uplift the Black community and stop racism. His life of service ranged from being a pastor all the way to serving in the state legislature.
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Zan Wesley Holmes, Jr. reflects on the Dallas housing development he helped create, and the legacy of a project that brought together an interdenominational group of churches, a rarity at the time.
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Getting your COVID-19 vaccine may come as a relief, but for some, it also can come with some side effects — like those reports of late of a red ring or rash on your arm after the shot, for instance. Dr. Joseph Chang, Chief Medical Officer of Parkland Health and Hospital System explains to KERA's Sam Baker why the side effects usually aren't cause for worry.
