Sarah Ebner is an award-winning journalist who began writing about education after joining The Times in 2008. Her education blog, ‘School Gate’, later won best commentary at the Online Media Awards and outstanding online commentary at the Education Journalism Awards. While at The Times, she was also an online sports editor and set up a newsletter called ‘Times Woman’.

Sarah is currently executive editor and director of editorial growth and engagement at the Financial Times, which she joined in April 2021, initially as head of newsletters. She was previously the first ever head of editorial newsletters at the Telegraph where her remit was later expanded to include all email communications.

Sarah has been a national newspaper news reporter and feature writer, as well as a producer on BBC Newsnight. She has been shortlisted four times at the British Press Awards, while newsletters she has launched at the FT (including ‘Inside Politics’, ‘Unhedged’ and ‘Chris Giles on Central Banks’) have won myriad awards.

Her first book The Starting School Survival Guide is published by Crimson Publishing.