Scholar reporter who introduced down Stanford president lands e-book deal

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By Ian Mohr

He’s a chip off the ol’ e-book.

Theo Baker — the wunderkind faculty journalist whose reporting as a freshman led to the ouster of Stanford College’s president — has inked a e-book take care of Penguin Press, Web page Six has discovered.

Baker was reportedly hanging out within the Washington Publish newsroom earlier than he might even write as a toddler.

His mother and father are Susan Glasser, the New Yorker author and a former WaPo editor, and Peter Baker, chief White Home correspondent for the NY Instances.

A supply informed us Theo’s e-book will element his freshman yr and the way his reporting for the college paper took down the establishment’s head.

Baker’s investigation right into a Bay Space biotech firm, Genentech — the place former Stanford president Marc Tessier-Lavigne was a high exec — and alleged errors in its analysis led to Tessier-Lavigne stepping down on the storied faculty, however remaining on its college.

Whereas his mother and father have been his mentors, Baker, a Phillips Academy Andover grad, informed the Washington Publish of his work, “They don’t learn my copy earlier than it goes out . . . They’re not my editors,” and credited the college paper.

He’d additionally informed the outlet of being a campus beginner, “I used to be actually scared, and I felt actually alone,” and, “I simply began at Stanford, and I used to be nonetheless looking for my associates. It was a bit bizarre when folks would interrupt in the course of class and be like, ‘Oh my God, you’re that child!’ or come as much as me after I’m making an attempt to go to a celebration.”

The teenager’s work gained him a particular George Polk Award for journalism.

Penguin confirmed the e-book, however didn’t present additional particulars. The imprint’s authors embrace Ron Chernow, Michael Pollan, David Axelrod, Zadie Smith, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Nate Silver and Mark Harris, amongst others.

Stanford’s board mentioned final summer time {that a} particular committee “didn’t discover proof to conclude that Dr. Tessier-Lavigne personally engaged in analysis misconduct,” however that it, “did discover proof that some members of labs overseen by [Tessier-Lavigne] both engaged in inappropriate manipulation of analysis information or engaged in poor scientific practices, leading to important flaws in these papers.”