FIPP World Congress 2017 | Meet the speaker: Sam Baker, The Pool
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Sam Baker grew up in Hampshire (UK) and studied politics at Birmingham University before embarking on a successful 20-year-plus career in magazine journalism, during which she edited some of the UK’s biggest magazines, including Just Seventeen, Cosmopolitan and Red.
In 2015, she co-founded and launched The Pool, with broadcaster Lauren Laverne, with a mission to celebrate and amplify women’s voices. An award-winning digital platform for women that has been described as redefining women’s media, The Pool recently won a Webby for Best Lifestyle mobile site/app.
Sam will speak at the 41st FIPP World Congress, 9-11 October 2017 in London, the UK. Meet her there.
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