Sarah Sands
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Sarah Sands (born Sarah Harvey, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, 3 June 1961) is a British journalist and author.
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[edit] Journalistic career
The sister of Kit Hesketh-Harvey of musical duo Kit and The Widow, Sands trained on The Sevenoaks Courier as a news reporter, before moving to the Evening Standard, initially as editor of the Londoner's Diary, before taking further posts as features editor and associate editor.
She joined The Daily Telegraph in 1996 as deputy editor, under Charles Moore, later assuming responsibility for the Saturday edition.
She was appointed as the first female editor of The Sunday Telegraph in June 2005, succeeding Dominic Lawson. Her masterplan for the November 2005 relaunch of the paper was that it should be "like an iPod - full of your favourite things". In an abrupt move, after just eight months and 20 days in post, Sands was sacked as editor of the Sunday Telegraph on 7 March 2006 and replaced by Patience Wheatcroft.[1] Subsequently, many of her changes under her editorship were reversed (including changes to the title font).
In April 2006 she was appointed consultant editor on the Daily Mail. In February 2008 she was appointed editor-in-chief of the UK edition of Reader's Digest.[2]
Sands has written two novels, her first was Playing the Game and her second, Hothouse, was published during the summer of 2005.
[edit] Controversy
In August 2006, Sands wrote an article about the Emo musical genre, which has been interpreted[who?] as implying that Green Day and My Chemical Romance encourage self-harm among teenagers, despite Green Day having tenuous links to the emo genre[citation needed] and My Chemical Romance advising their fans not to commit self-harm. [3]
My Chemical Romance, on hearing about this article while on tour in the UK, led a chant of "fuck the Daily Mail" (as Sands's article ran in this newspaper) during one of their live shows.[4] Kerrang! magazine in particular took offence at the article. The article is a regular joke in many articles in Kerrang! involving My Chemical Romance, often mentioned in passing or as a caption to photos from their shows.
She is due to become the UK editor of Reader's Digest.
[edit] References
- ^ New Statesman - The media column - Peter Wilby bids farewell to Sarah Sands
- ^ Mark Seewney "Sarah Sands joins Reader's Digest", The Guardian online, 21 February 2008. Accessed on 21 February 2008.
- ^ EMO cult warning for parents | the Daily Mail
- ^ Kerrang! News
[edit] External links
- Guardian profile of Sarah Sands
- Independent profile of Sarah Sands
- Criticism of Sands' tenure at the Sunday Telegraph, and her response
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| Preceded by Dominic Lawson |
Editor of The Sunday Telegraph 2005–2006 |
Succeeded by Patience Wheatcroft |
