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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 materSt Hilda's College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist

Sarah April Louise Baxter (born 25 November 1959) is a British journalist. Since 2013, she has been the deputy editor of The Sunday Times.

Early life

Baxter was born on 25 November 1959 in London, England.[1] She is the daughter of an American mother, and has dual citizenship.[2]

Education

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.[1][3]

Life and career

After leaving university, Baxter worked for Penguin Books as a copywriter and then Virago Press as a press officer.[3]

Journalistic 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.[4] She then joined The Observer where she eventually became senior associate editor[5] responsible for the comment section. Baxter left The Observer in 1996.[5]

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.[6] From July 2001, Baxter was based in New York.[7] She became the Washington correspondent of The Sunday Times in 2005,[8] before returning to London in 2009 to become editor of the newspaper's magazine,[9] which she edited until September 2015. In June 2013, she was appointed the deputy editor of The Sunday Times[10][11] and is a non-executive director of Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd.[3]

Personal life

Sarah Baxter's husband, Jez Coulson,[12] is a British photographer; the couple have two children.[13]

References

  1. ^ a b '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, Nov 2016 accessed 25 Nov 2017
  2. ^ Baxter, Sarah (17 October 2004). "I'm a Democrat for Bush". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 22 November 2015. (subscription required)
  3. ^ a b c "Sarah Baxter – History, 1978". St Hilda's College, Oxford. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
  4. ^ Baxter, Sarah (14 March 2013). "Ken v Saddam, dinner with David Blunkett, and when Julie was queen of the Groucho". New Statesman.
  5. ^ a b "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".
  6. ^ Hodgson, Jessica (19 March 2001). "New York correspondent quits Sunday Times"". The Guardian.
  7. ^ Morgan, Jean (23 May 2001). "Shake-up at Sunday Times". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013.
  8. ^ "Sarah Baxter". News UK.
  9. ^ Ponsford, Dominic (4 February 2009). "Robin Morgan leaves Sunday Times Magazine". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014.
  10. ^ Haggerty, Angela (21 June 2013). "David Dinsmore to replace Dominic Mohan as Sun editor and Sarah Baxter gets Sunday Times move". The Drum.
  11. ^ Spanier, Gideon (26 June 2013). "In the air: Murdoch rebrands papers as News UK". London Evening Standard.
  12. ^ "Photo blogging". The Atlantic. 6 June 2007.
  13. ^ Levy, Katherine (2 February 2012). "Baxter celebrates positive power of journalism". Campaign.
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