Sara Sidner


Sara Sidner is an American journalist. She is a correspondent for CNN and CNN International based at CNN's Los Angeles bureau.

Early life

A native of Miami Lakes, Florida, Sidner was born to an African-American father and a British mother. She graduated from Hialeah-Miami Lakes High School and the University of Florida with a telecommunications degree. While a student at the university, 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 periods at KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, WINK-TV in Fort Myers, Florida, and KDFW-TV in Dallas, Texas. At KDFW, she spent three years as a consumer reporter/anchor. She also 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.
Sidner has received many journalism awards. These include a Regional Emmy Award, a Lone Star Award, and several Associated Press Awards.

CNN

Currently, Sidner is a national and international correspondent for CNN, based in Los Angeles. She has previously been based in Jerusalem, Abu Dhabi, and New Delhi. At CNN, Sidner has reported on a wide range of subjects including the 2011 Libyan civil war, the launching of India's first unmanned lunar probe, and the Mumbai terrorist attacks.
On Sunday May 31, 2020, while in Minneapolis covering the protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd, Sidner conducted a newsmaking live interview with the city's police chief, Medaria Arradondo, in which he expressed his opinion that the three other officers who were present while officer Derek Chauvin held his knee on Floyd's neck were complicit in the death.