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Sam Coates
Born
Samuel Coates

(1978-04-22) 22 April 1978 (age 46)
EducationKing's College School
Alma materMagdelene College, Cambridge
OccupationJournalist
Years active2000–present
Employer(s)The Times (2000–2019)
Sky News (2019–present)
TitleDeputy Political Editor, Sky News

Sam Coates (born 22 April 1978) is a British journalist. He has worked for Sky News since 2019 as their Deputy Political Editor. [1] Coates previously worked as a newspaper journalist for The Times from 2000 until 2019.[2]

Early life and education

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Coates attended King's College School, a private day school in Wimbledon, London until 1996[3] . Coates read English and Social and Political Sciences (SPS) at Magdelene College, Cambridge, graduating in 2000.[4]

Career

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The Times

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Coates joined The Times in 2000 as a graduate trainee, working on the diary, foreign desk, and general reporter.[2] He won the Laurence Stern fellowship in 2005,[5] and worked at The Washington Post during summer 2005.[6] Coates joined The Times' lobby team in 2005 as Chief Political Correspondent, before being promoted to Deputy Political Editor in November 2010. In 2012, Coates spent a year as banking editor of The Times.[7]

During his time working at The Times, he contributed to the 2010 The Times Guide to the House of Commons,[8] and his picture of the 2017 Westminster attack was used on the front cover of the newspaper.[9] His reaction to Boris Johnson ruling himself out in the 2016 Conservative Party leadership election led to Coates featuring in the Daily Mirror and other outlets.[10][11] Coates was said to be "pivotal to The Times' parliamentary coverage" in a 2019 report.[12]

Whilst at The Times, Coates regularly presented BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster.[13][14] Coates also appeared as a paper reviewer on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show,[15] Politics Live,[16] and appeared on ABC's Lateline programme in March 2012.[17] He also appeared on ABC's Insiders programme on 2 May 2010 alongside future Sky News colleague Adam Boulton.[18]

Sky News

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In February 2019, it was announced that Coates would be joining Sky News later that year as deputy political editor, replacing Beth Rigby who was promoted to political editor.[19][20] Coates obtained a leaked document regarding the impact of a no-deal Brexit[21] which featured widely in news outlets in the UK and Ireland.[22][23]

In the build-up to Britain's proposed exit from the European Union on the 31 October 2019, Coates participated in Sky News' #Brexplainer feature,[24] and featured in Sky News' 2019 general election overnight coverage.[25][26]

Selected bibliography

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  • Coates, Sam (11 June 2012). "Eight out of ten Britons want a vote on Europe". The Times. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  • Zeffman, Henry; Coates, Sam (2 August 2018). "Jeremy Corbyn raised Nazi crimes to describe Israel in Gaza". The Times. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  • Coates, Sam; Walsh, John (7 December 2018). "Warning of food shortages in Ireland". The Times. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  • Coates, Sam (2 August 2019). "UK faces potential 'consumer panic' and 'security gaps' under no-deal Brexit, says government document". Sky News. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  • Coates, Sam (30 September 2019). "Brexit is 'unsettling' the civil service, cabinet sec admits in leaked letter". Sky News. Retrieved 21 June 2020.

References

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  1. ^ "Sam Coates". Sky News. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Sam Coates | The Times & The Sunday Times". www.thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  3. ^ "Old King's Club Newsletter" (PDF). Old King's Club. January 2022. p. 56. Retrieved 1 June 2024.
  4. ^ "Reporting Change". Magdalene College. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Laurence Stern Fellowship at the Washington Post". National Press Foundation. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  6. ^ Coates, Sam (28 August 2005). "Near the President's Ranch, Protests Expand in the Heat". The Washington Post. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Sam Coates appointed banking editor at The Times". ResponseSource. 31 October 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  8. ^ The Times (2010). The Times Guide to the House of Commons. Times Books. ISBN 978-0-00-735158-9.
  9. ^ Ponsford, Dominic (29 March 2017). "Met Police PR chief says officers were 'extremely upset' by Times front page image". Press Gazette. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  10. ^ Oakley, Nicola (30 June 2016). "Funniest reactions as Boris Johnson rule himself out as next Prime Minister". Mirror. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  11. ^ "This week in politics: Accurate at the time of writing". Lexington Communications. 1 July 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  12. ^ "TOP 50 POLITICAL INFLUENCERS" (PDF). Vuelio. 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  13. ^ Grafton-Green, Patrick (30 June 2017). "Theresa May's Brexit red lines have left Britain 'hamstrung'". Evening Standard. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  14. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - The Week in Westminster, 12/01/2019". BBC. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  15. ^ "BBC One - The Andrew Marr Show, 09/09/2018". BBC. Retrieved 16 June 2020. Reviewing the papers are... Sam Coates, deputy political editor of The Times.
  16. ^ "BBC Two - Politics Live, 23/04/2019". BBC. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  17. ^ Alberici, Emma (27 March 2012). "The Tories have form here: Coates". Lateline. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  18. ^ Cassidy, Barrie (2 May 2010). "UK set for hung parliament". Insiders. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  19. ^ Tobitt, Charlotte (6 February 2019). "Times deputy political editor Sam Coates moves to Sky News". Press Gazette. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  20. ^ "Sam Coates appointed Sky News Deputy Political Editor". ResponseSource. 6 February 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  21. ^ Coates, Sam (2 August 2019). "UK faces potential 'consumer panic' and 'security gaps' under no-deal Brexit, says government document". Sky News. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  22. ^ Ryan, Órla (2 August 2019). "'Panic' and 'security gaps': Internal British document warns about impact of no-deal Brexit". TheJournal.ie. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  23. ^ Bush, Stephen (1 August 2019). "What will day one of a no-deal Brexit look like?". New Statesman. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  24. ^ Allegretti, Aubrey (13 September 2019). "#Brexplainer: Your questions answered simply by the Sky News experts". Sky News. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  25. ^ Cremona, Patrick (12 December 2019). "How can I watch the General Election?". Radio Times. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  26. ^ "'The red wall is obliterated': Analysis from Sky's political experts". Sky News. 13 December 2019. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
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