Brent Sadler is a former CNN

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 correspondent to the Middle East

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, lived in Beirut

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, Lebanon

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 for the past decade, where he has been CNN's bureau chief since 1997.

Sadler was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys

Royal Masonic School for Boys

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 and Harris College, Preston, now the school of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Central Lancashire

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, where he gained a Diploma in Journalism Studies. He then worked as a reporter on the Harrow Observer

Harrow Observer

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 and Reading Evening Post

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, he then became a reporter on Southern Television

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 and Westward Television

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, followed by ITN in 1981.

He has reported from around the world on many conflicts and won a BAFTA

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award for Best Actuality Coverage of the Gulf War and an Overseas Press Club of America Award for Meritorious Reporting.