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Michael B. Baker
Executive Editor

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Michael Baker joined The BTN Group in 2006 and, as executive editor, leads the group’s technology, payment and travel management coverage. He has covered all the major travel industry beats over his many years with BTN, including about eight years each covering the aviation/transportation and lodging industries.

Before joining BTN, he cut his journalistic teeth in the newspaper industry, covering business and industry for both The Press of Atlantic City and The Facts, a daily in the greater Houston area where he won awards for both breaking news and feature coverage.

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