Sarah Baxter
Sarah Baxter | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sarah April Louise Baxter 25 November 1959 London, England |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom and United States |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse | Jez Coulson |
| Children | 2 |
Sarah April Louise Baxter (born 25 November 1959) is a British-American journalist. From 2013 to 2020, she was the deputy editor of The Sunday Times.[1][2]
Early life
[edit | edit source]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, she worked for Penguin Books as a copywriter and then Virago Press as a press officer.[5]
Career
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]Sarah Baxter's husband, Jez Coulson,[15] is a British photographer; the couple have two children.[16]
References
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