Brent Sadler (born 1950 in

Manchester Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...

) is a former

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Senior International Correspondent.

Early life

Sadler was educated at the

Royal Masonic School for Boys The Royal Masonic School for Boys was an English independent school for boys at Bushey in Hertfordshire. History The origins of the school lie in the charities established in the late 18th century to clothe and educate the sons of Freemasons nea ...

and Harris College, Preston, now the school of

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, where he gained a Diploma in Journalism Studies.

Career

After his studies, Sadler worked as a reporter for the

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and

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, and then for Southern Television in Southampton, UK,

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in Plymouth, UK and HTV Bristol. In 1981, he moved to ITN where he was promoted from the position of a news reporter to the position of Middle East correspondent. In 1991, he joined

where he spent two decades covering the world but spent most of his time in the Middle East. In 2009, he became a presenter for the program ‘Inside the Middle East’ on the CNN network. Sadler is perhaps best known for his work in covering the Gulf Wars while he was ITN's Middle East Correspondent and later CNN's Beirut Bureau Chief. He has covered wars in Chad, Libya, Uganda, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Iraqi Kurdistan and the Falklands. He is currently the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the N1 News Channel, a 24-hour cable news platform, exclusively affiliated with CNN that covers events in ex-Yugoslav countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.

Awards

Sadler has won numerous individual and team awards over his career. He won the RTS Regional News Award in 1980, the RTS International News Award in 1987 and with the ITN team, won the BAFTA for the quality of coverage while in Lebanon in 1983. While with CNN his team won the Emmy for their program ‘Saving Somalia’. He has reported from around the world on many conflicts and won a BAFTA award for Best Actuality Coverage of the Gulf War and an Overseas Press Club of America Award for Meritorious Reporting.

Personal life

Sadler is married to Dr Jelena Sadler, a former News Producer for CNN, his fourth wife. His third wife was author Tess Stimson. He has four children.

References

1950 births Living people British male journalists ITN newsreaders and journalists CNN people BAFTA winners (people) Alumni of the University of Central Lancashire People educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys Journalists from Manchester {{UK-journalist-stub