Biography:Freddie Sayers

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Freddie Sayers
Born
Frederick Erland Sayers

(1981-12-03) 3 December 1981 (age 42)
London, England
NationalityBritish, Swedish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
OccupationExecutive Editor of UnHerd, CEO of UnHerd Ventures
Websitewww.unherd.com

Freddie Sayers (born 3 December 1981) is a British journalist, interviewer,.[1] media executive and former pollster. He is currently Executive Editor of online magazine UnHerd.[2]

Life and career

He was born in London, and educated at St Paul's School, London. He is a graduate of Oxford University.[3]

Since March 2019, Sayers has been the Executive Editor and CEO of the online news publication UnHerd.[4][5] He is also CEO of UnHerd Ventures, the investment arm developing media and data businesses.

Prior to this, he was editor-in-chief of YouGov, the pollster and market research organisation, Sayers left YouGov to establish InConvo that was later purchased by YouGov.[6] Before joining YouGov Sayers founded the Westminster based political news website PoliticsHome,[7] during which time he became a regular commentator on British politics and current affairs, contributing to The Spectator[8], The Times[9], The Telegraph[10], Prospect and Evening Standard[11]

UnHerd

Sayers joined UnHerd as Executive Editor and CEO in March 2019.

During the Covid-19 lockdown, Sayers established an regular TV show titled 'LockdownTV'. Sayers has interviewed academics[12], authors, politicians[13] and activists[14] on the channel which has had over 11 million views and 127,000 subscribers as of March 2021.[15]

References

  1. ↑ Burrell, Ian (18 May 2020). "News websites are seeing record traffic, so public trust is higher than it seems" (in en). inews.co.uk. https://inews.co.uk/opinion/news-websites-record-online-traffic-public-trust-journalists-428798. 
  2. ↑ "Freddie Sayers, a writer for UnHerd" (in en-GB). https://unherd.com/author/freddie-sayers/. 
  3. ↑ "Educated, ambitious and scared". The Telegraph. 19 February 2003. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/expateducation/4186019/Educated-ambitious-and-scared.html. 
  4. ↑ "Freddie Sayers". https://www.linkedin.com/in/freddie-sayers-6981564b/. 
  5. ↑ Burrell, Ian. "News websites are seeing record online traffic – the public clearly trust journalists more than they think". https://inews.co.uk/opinion/news-websites-record-online-traffic-public-trust-journalists-428798. 
  6. ↑ "YouGov Buys Conversation Platform inconvo". https://www.i-com.org/news-articles/yougov-buys-conversation-platform-inconvo. 
  7. ↑ Ponsford, Dominic. "Confirmed: Paul Waugh leaves Standard for PoliticsHome". https://www.newstatesman.com/digital/2010/09/editor-politicshome-sayers. 
  8. ↑ https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/freddie-sayers
  9. ↑ Sayers, Freddie. "What sort of second referendum do you want? Vote now!". https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/what-sort-of-second-referendum-do-you-want-votenow-bl7752llr. 
  10. ↑ "Freddie Sayers". https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/freddie-sayers/. 
  11. ↑ Sayers, Freddie (12 October 2020). "The great Covid experiment — did Sweden beat us all?". https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/sweden-coronavirus-covid19-lockdown-a4546976.html. 
  12. ↑ "Cambridge tutor: don't force me to 'respect' your views". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wnJKjn9kxU. 
  13. ↑ "Politicians of Left and Right join forces to challenge lockdowns". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKmcSghhybU. 
  14. ↑ "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: virtue signalling on immigration, BLM and MeToo is dangerous". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdQSubLTgO8. 
  15. ↑ "UnHerd - YouTube". https://www.youtube.com/c/UnHerd/about. 


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