Sarah Baxter

Baxter was born on 25 November 1959 in London, England."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 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U250179 accessed 25 November 2017.] She is the daughter of an American mother, and has dual citizenship.{{cite news|last=Baxter|first=Sarah|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/im-a-democrat-for-bush-0ch3s5x795f|title=I'm a Democrat for Bush|work=The Sunday Times|location=London|date=17 October 2004|access-date=22 November 2015}} {{subscription required}}

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. After leaving university, she worked for Penguin Books as a copywriter and then Virago Press as a press officer.{{cite web|url=https://www.sthildas.ox.ac.uk/content/sarah-baxter-history-1978|title=Sarah Baxter – History, 1978|publisher=St Hilda's College, Oxford|accessdate=30 April 2017}}

Following a period as an editor for the London edition of Time Out, she joined the New Statesman where she became the political editor.{{cite web|last=Baxter|first=Sarah|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/media/media/2013/03/ken-v-saddam-dinner-david-blunkett-and-when-julie-was-queen-groucho|title=Ken v Saddam, dinner with David Blunkett, and when Julie was queen of the Groucho|work=New Statesman|date=14 March 2013}} She then joined The Observer where she eventually became senior associate editor{{cite web|url=http://www.prweek.com/article/95212|title=Media: Targett hired for Observer post|work=PR Week|date=12 April 1996}} Sources vary as to Baxter's exact job title. An earlier PR Week article ([http://www.prweek.com/article/93935/media-briefs Media: Briefs], 8 March 1996), announcing her promotion, has her new post given as "senior assistant editor". responsible for the comment section. Baxter left The Observer in 1996.

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.{{cite news|last=Hodgson|first=Jessica|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/mar/19/sundaytimes.pressandpublishing|title=New York correspondent quits Sunday Times|work=The Guardian|date=19 March 2001}} From July 2001, Baxter was based in New York.{{cite news|last=Morgan|first=Jean|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/20717|title=Shake-up at Sunday Times|work=Press Gazette|date=23 May 2001|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130707051826/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/20717|archivedate=7 July 2013}} She became the Washington correspondent of The Sunday Times in 2005,{{cite web|url=http://news.co.uk/senior-management/|title=Sarah Baxter|publisher=News UK}} before returning to London in 2009 to become editor of the newspaper's magazine,{{cite web|last=Ponsford|first=Dominic|url=http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/43004|title=Robin Morgan leaves Sunday Times Magazine|work=Press Gazette|date=4 February 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225210357/http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/node/43004|archivedate=25 February 2014}} which she edited until September 2015.

In June 2013, she was appointed the deputy editor of The Sunday Times{{cite news|last=Haggerty|first=Angela|url=http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/06/21/david-dinsmore-replace-dominic-mohan-sun-editor-and-sarah-baxter-gets-sunday-times|title=David Dinsmore to replace Dominic Mohan as Sun editor and Sarah Baxter gets Sunday Times move|work=The Drum|date=21 June 2013}} and has served as a non-executive director of Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd. She stepped down as deputy editor of The Sunday Times in 2020 and is currently director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at Stony Brook University, New York.{{Cite web |title=Sarah Baxter {{!}} School of Communication and Journalism |url=https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/journalism/about/Sarah_Baxter.php |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=www.stonybrook.edu |language=en}} She is a member of IPSO's Complaints Committee.{{Cite web |title=Complaints Committee |url=https://www.ipso.co.uk/what-we-do/people/complaints-committee/ |access-date=2024-04-09 |website=ipso.co.uk}}

Sarah Baxter's husband, Jez Coulson,{{cite news|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2007/06/photo-blogging/227887/ |title=Photo blogging |work=The Atlantic|date=6 June 2007}} is a British photographer; the couple have two children.{{cite news|last=Levy|first=Katherine|url=http://www.campaignlive.co.uk/news/1115048/|title=Baxter celebrates positive power of journalism|work=Campaign|date=2 February 2012}}

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