Sara Edwards is a freelance reporter, producer, film critic and media consultant who owns Sara Edwards Media, currently based in San Marino, California. She was previously based in Boston, Massachusetts where she was an entertainment and features reporter and film critic from 1981-2009. Edwards grew up in

San Marino, California San Marino is a residential city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. It was incorporated on April 25, 1913. At the 2010 census the population was 13,147. The city is one of the wealthiest places in the nation in terms of househol ...

where she graduated from

San Marino High School San Marino High School (SMHS) is a public high school in San Marino, California, United States, and the only high school in the San Marino Unified School District, Los Angeles County. According to the 2015 California Academic Performance Index Su ...

in 1970. She later attended

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where she studied television and film and graduated with a

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degree in Communications. Edwards started her television career as a reporter for

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. After a television reporting job in

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and a one-year stint hosting the syndicated entertainment show "World of People" from 1980-1981 Edwards relocated to Boston, Massachusetts where she was teamed with Barry Nolan as co-host of

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from 1981-1990. She then joined crosstown

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as an entertainment reporter from 1991-2003. While based there she also served as a film critic and entertainment reporter for

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serving that network's affiliates across the

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. After her position at WHDH was eliminated Edwards joined

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channel as executive producer and co-host of "Backstage" with former WBZ colleague Barry Nolan; after Nolan was terminated by CN8 for criticizing New England EMMY honoree and FOX News host Bill O'Reilly Edwards hosted the program solo. When CN8's New England operations were shut down "Backstage" was cancelled and Edwards was laid off. Edwards then started her own media company Sara Edwards Media. Originally based in Boston, after her home was burglarized over Thanksgiving holiday in 2009 she decided to return home to San Marino, California. Edwards co-founded Wise Women...Now, a website about older women, with Lyn May and Sue Levit before departing with Levit to establish their own web venture. Over the years, Edwards has earned many Emmy nominations and in 2008, won a New England Emmy for her producing and reporting work on "Backstage."THE 31ST BOSTON/NEW ENGLAND EMMY® WINNERS
, NATAS Boston/New England, May 10, 2008 She has also won three Telly Awards, a national award given by industry professionals, and a New England Cable Television award for excellence in programming. Edwards also holds three honorary degrees from universities in the Boston area.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Edwards, Sara Television anchors from Boston Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from San Marino, California University of California, Los Angeles alumni