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Longtime Reuters bureau chief and correspondent Baker has left

December 18, 2020

Posted by Chris Roush

Luke Baker

Luke Baker, who has been at Reuters for 23 years and was the bureau chief in Paris, Brussels and Jerusalem, has left the news organization.

Since September 2019, he has been an international affairs correspondent based on London.

Baker was the Paris bureau chief from September 2017 to September 2019, leading more than 120 people, including 40 that worked on its French language service. He previously spent more than three years as the Jerusalem bureau chief and nearly five years as the Brussels bureau chief.

He started at Reuters as a correspondent in Africa and also worked in Iraq and Italy.

Baker is the author of “Dateline Baghdad.”

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