She co-founded and served as Executive Director of the AIM2Flourish global learning initiative, hosted at Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
She attended New York's High School of Performing Arts, graduating in 1969.
[3] She was the senior Washington correspondent for NOW with Bill Moyers, senior investigative producer for the ABC newsmagazine 20/20, chief investigative correspondent for the CBS newsmagazine 48 Hours,[3] and contributed special reports to the CBS Evening News.
She also served as Executive Director for the Center for Public Integrity,[5] and as the Director of Media Communications for the Office of the Inspector General at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Baskin is active in journalism organizations and has been a guest lecturer internationally.