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. from july 2001, baxter was based in new york. she became the washington correspondent of "the sunday times" in 2005, before returning to london in 2009 to become editor of the newspaper's magazine, which she edited until september 2015. in june 2013, she was appointed the deputy editor of "the sunday times" and is a non-executive director of times newspapers holdings ltd.