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]
Sarah Baxter | |
|---|---|
| Born | Sarah April Louise Baxter 25 November 1959 London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom and United States |
| Alma mater | St Hilda's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse | Jez Coulson |
| Children | 2 |
Early life
editBaxter 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
editFollowing 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
editSarah Baxter's husband, Jez Coulson,[15] is a British photographer; the couple have two children.[16]
References
edit- ^ a b Spanier, Gideon (26 June 2013). "In the air: Murdoch rebrands papers as News UK". London Evening Standard.
- ^ a b "Sarah Baxter to step down from The Sunday Times and Ben Taylor appointed deputy editor". News UK. 14 May 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ 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, November 2016 accessed 25 November 2017.
- ^ Baxter, Sarah (17 October 2004). "I'm a Democrat for Bush". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 22 November 2015. (subscription required)
- ^ a b c "Sarah Baxter – History, 1978". St Hilda's College, Oxford. Retrieved 30 April 2017.
- ^ Baxter, Sarah (14 March 2013). "Ken v Saddam, dinner with David Blunkett, and when Julie was queen of the Groucho". New Statesman.
- ^ 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".
- ^ Hodgson, Jessica (19 March 2001). "New York correspondent quits Sunday Times". The Guardian.
- ^ Morgan, Jean (23 May 2001). "Shake-up at Sunday Times". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 7 July 2013.
- ^ "Sarah Baxter". News UK.
- ^ Ponsford, Dominic (4 February 2009). "Robin Morgan leaves Sunday Times Magazine". Press Gazette. Archived from the original on 25 February 2014.
- ^ Haggerty, Angela (21 June 2013). "David Dinsmore to replace Dominic Mohan as Sun editor and Sarah Baxter gets Sunday Times move". The Drum.
- ^ "Sarah Baxter | School of Communication and Journalism". www.stonybrook.edu. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ "Complaints Committee". ipso.co.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ "Photo blogging". The Atlantic. 6 June 2007.
- ^ Levy, Katherine (2 February 2012). "Baxter celebrates positive power of journalism". Campaign.