Brent Sadler

Who is Brent Sadler?

Brent Sadler is a former CNN correspondent to the Middle East, lived in Beirut, Lebanon for the past decade, where he has been CNN's bureau chief since 1997.

Sadler was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys and Harris College, Preston, now the school of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire, where he gained a Diploma in Journalism Studies. He then worked as a reporter on the Harrow Observer and Reading Evening Post, he then became a reporter on Southern Television and Westward Television, followed by ITN in 1981.

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.