Occupation Correspondent Role Journalist | Name Sara Sidner | |
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Born May 31, 1972 (age 51) ( 1972-05-31 ) Florida, U.S. Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long Form Similar People Isha Sesay, Arwa Damon, Anderson Cooper, Nic Robertson, Ben Wedeman | ||
Cnn reporter sara sidner hit with rock during ferguson protests
Sara Sidner (born May 31, 1972) is an American journalist. She is a correspondent for CNN and CNN International based in Jerusalem starting August 2012, formerly in New Delhi.
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- Background
- Career
- References
Angry indian crowd gets hostile with cnn reporter sara sidner in mumbai india after muslim terror attacks
Background
A native of Miami Lakes, Florida, Sidner was born to an African-American father and a British mother. She graduated from the University of Florida with a telecommunications degree. While a student there, she played on the women's volleyball team, which made the Final Four during her last year.
Career
Sidner began her on-air reporting career at WUFT-TV in Gainesville, Florida. This was followed by stints at KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, WINK-TV in Fort Myers, Florida and KDFW-TV in Dallas, Texas. At KDFW-TV, she spent three years as a consumer reporter/anchor.
She has received many journalism awards. These include a Regional Emmy Award, a Lone Star Award, and several Associated Press Awards. At KDFW-TV in Dallas she distinguished herself for reporting on the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
In January 2004, Sidner joined KTVU in Oakland, California, where she served as a weekend co-anchor of KTVU Channel 2 News at 6 and The Ten O’Clock News. She also served as a weekday reporter for the station.
Currently, she is an international correspondent for CNN, based in Jerusalem. At CNN, Sidner has reported on a wide range of subjects including the 2011 Libyan civil war, the launching of India's first unmmaned lunar probe and the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
