Nick Baker is CoinDesk's deputy editor-in-chief and edits some of the newsroom's highest-profile stories, including our three Polk Award–winning scoops on FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried. Before joining in 2022, he worked at Bloomberg News for 16 years as a reporter, editor and manager. Previously, he was a reporter at Dow Jones Newswires and wrote for The Wall Street Journal. He earned a journalism degree from Ohio University. He owns small amounts of BTC and ETH.