{{short description|British journalist}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Use British English|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Sarah Baxter | image = <!-- filename only, no "File:" or "Image:" prefix, and no enclosing brackets --> | alt = <!-- descriptive text for use by speech synthesis (text-to-speech) software --> | caption = | birth_name = Sarah April Louise Baxter | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1959|11|25}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=y|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | citizenship = United Kingdom and United States | spouse = Jez Coulson | children = 2 | alma_mater = St Hilda's College, Oxford | occupation = Journalist }}
'''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''.<ref name="ES20130626">{{cite news|last=Spanier|first=Gideon|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/business/media/in-the-air-murdoch-rebrands-papers-as-news-uk-8674449.html|title=In the air: Murdoch rebrands papers as News UK|work=London Evening Standard|date=26 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="NewsUK1">{{cite news|url=https://www.news.co.uk/2020/05/sarah-baxter-to-step-down-from-the-sunday-times-and-ben-taylor-appointed-deputy-editor/|title=Sarah Baxter to step down from ''The Sunday Times'' and Ben Taylor appointed deputy editor|work=News UK|date=14 May 2020|access-date=1 November 2020}}</ref>
==Early life== Baxter was born on 25 November 1959 in London, England.<ref name="WW 2017">"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.]</ref> She is the daughter of an American mother, and has dual citizenship.<ref name="Baxter2004">{{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}}</ref>
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.<ref name="WW 2017" /><ref name="St Hilda's" /> After leaving university, she worked for Penguin Books as a copywriter and then Virago Press as a press officer.<ref name="St Hilda's">{{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}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She then joined ''The Observer'' where she eventually became senior associate editor<ref name="PRW">{{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".</ref> responsible for the comment section. Baxter left ''The Observer'' in 1996.<ref name="PRW"/>
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.<ref name="Hodgson2001">{{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}}</ref> From July 2001, Baxter was based in New York.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She became the Washington correspondent of ''The Sunday Times'' in 2005,<ref name="NewsUK2">{{cite web|url=http://news.co.uk/senior-management/|title=Sarah Baxter|publisher=News UK}}</ref> before returning to London in 2009 to become editor of the newspaper's magazine,<ref>{{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}}</ref> which she edited until September 2015.
In June 2013, she was appointed the deputy editor of ''The Sunday Times''<ref name="ES20130626" /><ref>{{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}}</ref> and has served as a non-executive director of Times Newspapers Holdings Ltd.<!-- Has resigned, according to Companies House (address given is for company HQ, so privacy issue does not apply), but no usable source. --><ref name="St Hilda's"/> She stepped down as deputy editor of ''The Sunday Times'' in 2020<ref name="NewsUK1" /> and is currently director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at Stony Brook University, New York.<ref>{{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}}</ref> She is a member of IPSO's Complaints Committee.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==Personal life== Sarah Baxter's husband, Jez Coulson,<ref>{{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}}</ref> is a British photographer; the couple have two children.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
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