Since we met a couple of years ago, Theo Baker and I have spent a lot of time discussing one question: Who\u2019s building the future of news? Today I get to share that he\u2019s joining The Standard to help answer that.<\/p>\n
Theo is one of the country\u2019s most talked-about young journalists. As a 17-year-old freshman writing for The Stanford Daily, he uncovered research misconduct in studies bearing the name of the university\u2019s president. The president resigned, and Baker became the youngest person ever to win a George Polk Award. He turned that experience into \u201c (opens in new tab)<\/a>How to Rule the World (opens in new tab)<\/a>,\u201d a bestselling book about power in Silicon Valley. (opens in new tab)<\/a>The New York Times (opens in new tab)<\/a> noted that the Valley has long cast itself as more meritocratic than the elites who came before it, and Theo\u2019s book \u201cperforates this story.\u201d<\/p>\n At The Standard, Theo will cover the defining story of this moment: how AI is remaking everything and the people who are pushing it forward. That story runs straight through San Francisco, and we want to tell it from the inside. Theo will write a recurring reported column alongside features and scoops, with exclusive reporting and analysis you won\u2019t find anywhere else. His (opens in new tab)<\/a>recent piece in The Atlantic (opens in new tab)<\/a> on Leopold Aschenbrenner is a good preview of what\u2019s coming.<\/p>\n This hire says something about where The Standard is headed. Michael Moritz and I started this company on the simple belief that San Francisco is a world-class city, and what gets decided and created here shapes the future of the planet. A city like this deserves a publication that is equally ambitious. We\u2019re building a newsroom that reports the biggest stories of our time from the place where they begin, for readers here and around the world. I\u2019m delighted that Theo is joining our team on that journey.<\/p>\n Theo will work directly with Elizabeth Ralph, who joined The Standard this year after helping to launch and later leading Politico Magazine, and who is expanding our coverage of ideas and opinion.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2014 Griffin<\/p>\n Since I joined to lead The Standard\u2019s ideas and opinion section, I\u2019ve learned that plenty of people have opinions about Silicon Valley. Far fewer dig into the technology, scrutinize the documents, and talk to the people making decisions to figure out what\u2019s actually going on. Theo will be doing exactly that.<\/p>\n The Standard is built around a conviction that the questions shaping San Francisco and Silicon Valley are increasingly shaping the world. Nowhere is that more apparent than in the field of AI. Theo\u2019s reported columns \u2014 in addition to his longer features and shorter scoops \u2014 will be essential reading for anyone trying to understand the technology and the people and companies pushing it forward. This is a massive story \u2014 one that\u2019s about money, ambition, power, culture, and the future of society. We\u2019re thrilled to have someone as ambitious as Theo tackling it for us.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u2014 Elizabeth<\/p>\n Please join us in welcoming Theo. You can subscribe to Theo\u2019s writing at <\/a>sfstandard.com\/theo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since we met a couple of years ago, Theo Baker and I have spent a lot of time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2007,973,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-495907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-ai","tag-media","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}