The Stanford Freshman Who Brought Down the University President—Theo Baker with Harry Litman

Theo Baker is the wunderkind investigative journalist and student at Stanford University who brought down the university president. As a freshman investigations editor for The Stanford Daily, he investigated and reported on plagiarism by Stanford’s president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, eventually forcing him to step down. For that reporting at the age of 17, Baker became the youngest-ever recipient of the prestigious George Polk Award. Baker sits down with Harry Litman to talk about his impressive accomplishments to date, thoughts on the value and future of higher education, his illustrious family (journalists and RMWF alumni Peter Baker and Susan Glasser) and his forthcoming book and related movie deal.