Emma Baker

Emma Baker is a television journalist and presenter.

For the member of the Mohegan Pequot Indian tribe, see Emma Fielding Baker. For the Canadian psychologist, see Emma Sophia Baker.

Career

She was a news presenter and reporter for ITV News Anglia on ITV Anglia where she was based in Cambridgeshire and Norfolk.

She made the headlines after she was shown joking with colleagues and checking her appearance, without realising she was live on air on the morning of Monday 15 January 2007. Anglia spokesman Jim Woodrow told the Press Gazette: "A switching error led to viewers seeing some light-hearted banter involving our presenter Emma Baker and our production team. There was nothing said which we feel might have upset the viewers."[1]

Baker then joined the ITV Tyne Tees & Border current affairs programme, Border Life, based in Edinburgh. She occasionally relief presented regional news programmes ITV News Tyne Tees and Lookaround.

In 2016, Baker was shortlisted for RTS Scotland's On Screen Personality of the Year.[2]

In October 2018 she became acting co-presenter of ITV Channel's flagship regional news programme ITV News Channel TV. A year later she switched to presenting and reporting. In December 2020 she left the programme.

Personal life

Baker is fluent in French and German, having studied modern languages at Cambridge University. During this time, she spent a year working for The Independent and the BBC in Paris.

Baker grew up on a dairy and arable farm in Kent.

References
  1. "Anglia TV news bosses investigate newsreader's on-air gaffe". Press Gazette. 2007-01-19. Archived from the original on 2011-05-17.
  2. "Stars of TV in running for leading Scottish television awards". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 2017-03-26.


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