The San Francisco Standard has hired Theo Baker as its senior Silicon Valley reporter, covering AI and the people building it.
Baker will write a recurring reported column for The Standard, along with features and scoops. He’ll also spend some of his time working on the product itself from the app to new newsroom tools and ways to reach younger readers.
Baker is a graduate of Stanford University.
He is the author of “How to Rule the World,” published by Penguin Press in May 2026. It’s a mix of investigative journalism, college coming-of-age memoir, and cultural ethnography, and is based on more than 250 interviews and three years of reporting and writing.
