Kerry Sanders
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Kerry Sanders is a correspondent for NBC News
. He worked as a general news reporter for a number of Florida television stations including: WTLV in Jacksonville, Fl (where he worked as a paid intern), WINK in Ft. Myers, WTVT
, the CBS and later Fox affiliate in Tampa and WTVJ (NBC) in Miami. He is a 1982 graduate of the University of South Florida
from which he received his Bachelors Degree and later, a Distinguished Alumni Award. In 1996, Sanders became a correspondent for NBC
News, based in the network's Miami bureau. He was immediately thrust into a major story, when the ValuJet crash occurred in the Everglades just days after he began with NBC.
He is a general assignment reporter and may be seen at news events throughout the world. He is regularly seen on Nightly News, the TODAY show, MSNBC and Dateline NBC.
Kerry Sanders is a Peabody Journalism Award winner, Emmy Award winner, Columbia DuPont Award winner and National Headliner award winner. He is well known for his Hurricane coverage, including Hurricanes Andrew, Ivan and Katrina. He has also been on the front lines in both Desert Storm in 1991 and as an embedded reporter with the US Marines during the Iraq War in 2003. He had previously worked with NBC reporter David Bloom
at WTVJ in Miami, who died from an embolism caused by DVT while also covering the Iraq war along with Sanders.
In 2000, Sanders and an NBC cameraman had exclusive coverage of the Federal raid to free Elian Gonzalez, the six year old Cuban boy held by his relatives in Miami when the Federal Government ordered he be returned to his father in Cuba after his mother died in the waters off the coast of Florida while trying reach the USA. Sanders coverage as pool reporter(he is bilingual and fluent in Spanish) on that event was seen on competing networks such as Univision, Telemundo, and CNN.
Sanders is originally from the Boston metro area but while growing up, also lived in England and Peru. He resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his wife, author Deborah Sharp.
NBC News
NBC News is the news division of American television network NBC. It first started broadcasting in February 21, 1940. NBC Nightly News has aired from Studio 3B, located on floors 3 of the NBC Studios is the headquarters of the GE Building forms the centerpiece of 30th Rockefeller Center it is...
. He worked as a general news reporter for a number of Florida television stations including: WTLV in Jacksonville, Fl (where he worked as a paid intern), WINK in Ft. Myers, WTVT
WTVT
WTVT, channel 13, is a television station in Tampa, Florida. It is an owned and operated station of the Fox Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of the News Corporation...
, the CBS and later Fox affiliate in Tampa and WTVJ (NBC) in Miami. He is a 1982 graduate of the University of South Florida
University of South Florida
The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, one of the state's three flagship universities for public research, and is located in Tampa, Florida, USA...
from which he received his Bachelors Degree and later, a Distinguished Alumni Award. In 1996, Sanders became a correspondent for NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
News, based in the network's Miami bureau. He was immediately thrust into a major story, when the ValuJet crash occurred in the Everglades just days after he began with NBC.
He is a general assignment reporter and may be seen at news events throughout the world. He is regularly seen on Nightly News, the TODAY show, MSNBC and Dateline NBC.
Kerry Sanders is a Peabody Journalism Award winner, Emmy Award winner, Columbia DuPont Award winner and National Headliner award winner. He is well known for his Hurricane coverage, including Hurricanes Andrew, Ivan and Katrina. He has also been on the front lines in both Desert Storm in 1991 and as an embedded reporter with the US Marines during the Iraq War in 2003. He had previously worked with NBC reporter David Bloom
David Bloom
David Bloom was an NBC journalist until his sudden death in 2003 at the age of 39 from deep vein thrombosis...
at WTVJ in Miami, who died from an embolism caused by DVT while also covering the Iraq war along with Sanders.
In 2000, Sanders and an NBC cameraman had exclusive coverage of the Federal raid to free Elian Gonzalez, the six year old Cuban boy held by his relatives in Miami when the Federal Government ordered he be returned to his father in Cuba after his mother died in the waters off the coast of Florida while trying reach the USA. Sanders coverage as pool reporter(he is bilingual and fluent in Spanish) on that event was seen on competing networks such as Univision, Telemundo, and CNN.
Sanders is originally from the Boston metro area but while growing up, also lived in England and Peru. He resides in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with his wife, author Deborah Sharp.