Sarah Baxter

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Sarah Baxter
Born
Sarah April Louise Baxter

(1959-11-25) 25 November 1959 (age 64)
London, England
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom and United States
Alma mater St Hilda's College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist

Sarah April Louise Baxter (born 25 November 1959) is a British journalist. From 2013 to 2020, she was the deputy editor of The Sunday Times . [1] [2]

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Early life

Baxter was born on 25 November 1959 in London, England. [3] She is the daughter of an American mother, and has dual citizenship. [4]

Baxter was educated in the US and France, and in the UK at Ashford School, a co-educational independent school in the town of Ashford in Kent and North London Collegiate School, a girls' independent day school in the district of Edgware in north London. She studied modern history at St Hilda's College, Oxford, graduating in 1981. [3] [5]

After leaving university, Baxter worked for Penguin Books as a copywriter and then Virago Press as a press officer. [5]

Career

Following a period as an editor for the London edition of Time Out , she joined the New Statesman where she became the political editor. [6] She then joined The Observer where she eventually became senior associate editor [7] responsible for the comment section. Baxter left The Observer in 1996. [7]

Baxter moved to The Sunday Times following an appointment as editor of the News Review section, a post in which she remained for four years. [8] From July 2001, Baxter was based in New York. [9] She became the Washington correspondent of The Sunday Times in 2005, [10] before returning to London in 2009 to become editor of the newspaper's magazine, [11] which she edited until September 2015. In June 2013, she was appointed the deputy editor of The Sunday Times [1] [12] and has served as a non-executive director of Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd. [5] She stepped down as deputy editor of The Sunday Times in 2020 [2] and is currently director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at Stony Brook University, New York. [13] She is a member of IPSO's Complaints Committee. [14]

Personal life

Sarah Baxter's husband, Jez Coulson, [15] is a British photographer; the couple have two children. [16]

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References

  1. 1 2 Spanier, Gideon (26 June 2013). "In the air: Murdoch rebrands papers as News UK". London Evening Standard.
  2. 1 2 "Sarah Baxter to step down from The Sunday Times and Ben Taylor appointed deputy editor". News UK. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Baxter, Sarah April Louise", Who's Who 2017 , A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, November 2016 accessed 25 November 2017.
  4. ↑ Baxter, Sarah (17 October 2004). "I'm a Democrat for Bush". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 22 November 2015.(subscription required)
  5. 1 2 3 "Sarah Baxter – History, 1978". St Hilda's College, Oxford. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  6. ↑ Baxter, Sarah (14 March 2013). "Ken v Saddam, dinner with David Blunkett, and when Julie was queen of the Groucho". New Statesman.
  7. 1 2 "Media: Targett hired for Observer post". PR Week. 12 April 1996. Sources vary as to Baxter's exact job title. An earlier PR Week article (Media: Briefs, 8 March 1996), announcing her promotion, has her new post given as "senior assistant editor".
  8. ↑ Hodgson, Jessica (19 March 2001). "New York correspondent quits Sunday Times". The Guardian.
  9. ↑ Morgan, Jean (23 May 2001). "Shake-up at Sunday Times". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013.
  10. ↑ "Sarah Baxter". News UK.
  11. ↑ Ponsford, Dominic (4 February 2009). "Robin Morgan leaves Sunday Times Magazine". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014.
  12. ↑ Haggerty, Angela (21 June 2013). "David Dinsmore to replace Dominic Mohan as Sun editor and Sarah Baxter gets Sunday Times move". The Drum.
  13. ↑ "Sarah Baxter | School of Communication and Journalism". www.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  14. ↑ "Complaints Committee". www.ipso.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  15. ↑ "Photo blogging". The Atlantic. 6 June 2007.
  16. ↑ Levy, Katherine (2 February 2012). "Baxter celebrates positive power of journalism". Campaign.
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