BIOGRAPHY

Josh Baker is a BAFTA-winning journalist, filmmaker and showrunner specialising in narrative investigative journalism across podcasts, film, television and news. He created I’m Not a Monster, the BBC’s most-listened-to and most-awarded narrative podcast.

His latest series, Where Is Austin Tice?, generated international headlines with major revelations about the American journalist’s disappearance in Syria. The culmination of a multi-year investigation, the series was produced in partnership with NPR’s Embedded. Josh wrote and showran the series and established the partnership between the two organisations.

Josh was one of the first at the BBC to develop multi-platform storytelling, building a production model that enables a single investigation to deliver documentaries, podcasts, written features, news coverage and live radio. His approach serves the breadth of the organisation’s output, combining rigorous reporting with immersive storytelling and reaching different audiences across multiple formats. His audio series have achieved record engagement with younger audiences.

His film credits include Louis Theroux: The Settlers, which he directed. The documentary received widespread critical acclaim and international attention, winning the Rose d’Or for Documentary and receiving BAFTA and International Emmy nominations in 2026.

Josh’s work has earned more than 50 major international awards and nominations. His honours include a BAFTA, an Edward R. Murrow Award, multiple Emmy nominations and the Society of Editors’ Freelance Journalist of the Year award. I’m Not a Monster became the first audio series to win the Rose d’Or twice.

Through his talent deal with the BBC, Josh develops new formats, builds and runs international partnerships, and leads teams delivering major investigations. His experience includes negotiating and managing intellectual property deals and developing work for adaptation. He has built and managed teams across multiple countries and time zones, guiding sensitive projects through complex editorial, legal, security and political challenges.

He has also worked for organisations including The Guardian, NPR, ITN Productions, MINDHOUSE, INSIGHT, PBS FRONTLINE and The Times of London. His reporting has taken him to conflict zones around the world, and he is a certified Medic for Remote Areas through the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Away from journalism, during the fall of Kabul in 2021, Baker also helped plan, coordinate and run multiple life-saving evacuations of women and children from Afghanistan, work that was later recognised with a Congressional Commendation from U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff.