Freddie Sayers
| Freddie Sayers | |
|---|---|
| Born | Frederick Erland Sayers 3 December 1981 London, England |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British, Swedish |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🌐 Website | www.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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- ↑ Burrell, Ian (18 May 2020). "News websites are seeing record traffic, so public trust is higher than it seems". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ↑ "Freddie Sayers, a writer for UnHerd". UnHerd. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
- ↑ "Educated, ambitious and scared". The Telegraph. 19 February 2003. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ↑ "Freddie Sayers". Retrieved 14 July 2020 – via LinkedIn.
- ↑ Burrell, Ian. "News websites are seeing record online traffic – the public clearly trust journalists more than they think". inews.co.uk. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ↑ "YouGov Buys Conversation Platform inconvo". I-Com. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ↑ Ponsford, Dominic. "Confirmed: Paul Waugh leaves Standard for PoliticsHome". New Statesman. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ↑ https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/freddie-sayers
- ↑ Sayers, Freddie. "What sort of second referendum do you want? Vote now!" – via www.thetimes.co.uk.
- ↑ "Freddie Sayers". The Telegraph.
- ↑ Sayers, Freddie (12 October 2020). "The great Covid experiment — did Sweden beat us all?". www.standard.co.uk.
- ↑ "Cambridge tutor: don't force me to 'respect' your views" – via www.youtube.com.
- ↑ "Politicians of Left and Right join forces to challenge lockdowns" – via www.youtube.com.
- ↑ "Ayaan Hirsi Ali: virtue signalling on immigration, BLM and MeToo is dangerous" – via www.youtube.com.
- ↑ "UnHerd - YouTube". www.youtube.com.
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