Sarah Baxter

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, Baxter worked for Penguin Books as a copywriter and then Virago Press as a press officer.[5]

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]

Sarah Baxter's husband, Jez Coulson,[13] is a British photographer; the couple have two children.[14]