Sara Sidner

Sara Sidner is CNN’s multiple award-winning senior national and international correspondent, based in the network’s Los Angeles bureau. Recently, Sidner led the network’s coverage in Minneapolis of the protests following the death of George Floyd and the trial of Derek Chauvin. Sidner also extensively covered the protests in Ferguson and the national conversation about race and policing in America. As an international correspondent, Sidner reported on a wide range of subjects, from terrorism to business to social and cultural issues. She has reported from a multitude of countries, including Libya, Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Taiwan. In the Middle East, Sidner was part of the team that won a Peabody award for CNN’s coverage of the Arab Spring. Her work in Libya, reporting in the midst of rebel fighters during the fall of Tripoli, has been recognized all over the world.