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Every TV station has its bantering anchors, reporters and meteorologists, but I’m not sure I’ve ever seen someone having so much fun so often as Julie Baker.
That feeling is infectious around Baker, a reporter for Nexstar-owned KXRM in Colorado Springs, Colo., and it has translated well on TikTok and Instagram, where she has a large and growing following for videos of her on-set antics at the station and Weird News segments that mine the bottomless pit of human folly that she posts directly to social.
In this Talking TV conversation, Baker explains she’s shed the rigid TV persona from her career’s earlier days for good and that both station management and viewers have embraced the off-kiltered authenticity she revels in now.
Episode transcript below, edited for clarity.
Michael Depp: I’m Michael Depp, editor of TVNewsCheck, and this is Talking TV. It’s an anxious age for TV news and we’ve spent many of the more recent episodes of this podcast wading into the gravely serious issues the industry is facing right now. From TV journalist burnout to generative A.I. to the battle over vMVPD negotiation rates, when you may ask, are we ever going to have any fun?
Well, the answer is right now. Right now, we are going to have some fun with a TV reporter who looks to me to be having way too much fun doing her job. Julie Baker is a reporter at Nexstar’s KXRM in Colorado Springs, Colo. She also moonlights as a