Todd Baer is an award winning Lebanese-American television journalist and International TV News consultant.  He has spent the last year working as a freelance correspondent for Al Jazeera English; most recently in Beirut, Lebanon.   
 
Baer joined Al Jazeera English in July of 2008 in New Delhi, India. While working in the New Delhi bureau, Baer covered the Vote of confidence in the Indian Parliament, the bomb attacks in Ahmedabad and unrest in Kashmir.   
 
Since then he has covered the attacks on Mumbai, the aftermath of the war in Gaza, the war in Afghanistan and the Lebanese Parliamentary Election.

 
Before joining Al Jazeera English, Baer was a freelance correspondent and television news consultant in India, Pakistan and Kenya.  As a freelance correspondent for CNN and ABC News, he covered the assassination of former Prime Minister Benezir Bhutto, the suicide bombing outside of the High Court in Lahore, Pakistan, and he was the first American reporter to interview the family of US President Barack Obama in Kogelo, Kenya.  
 
As a television news consultant, Baer has trained staff and helped launch DAWN News, GEO-TV and Dunya-TV in Pakistan,  Aaj Tak-TV in New Delhi, India, SAAM Marathi-TV in Mumbai, India and  K24 TV in Nairobi, Kenya.
 
Previously Baer was a reporter at KSTP-TV (ABC) in Minneapolis, Minnesota for 5 years. While at KSTP he covered stories across the U.S and Mexico.

Baer started his career at ABC News in New York as a desk assistant in 1997. While there, he traveled to Tehran, Iran, to cover a team of American wrestlers at a competition. It was the first athletic exchange between the U.S. and Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.  
 
Baer has also worked at CNN in Atlanta and at several other local TV stations in the United States.