Education
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.
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After his studies he worked as a reporter for the Harrow Observer and Reading Evening Post, and then for Southern Television in Southampton, United Kingdom, Westward Television in Plymouth, United Kingdom and HTV Bristol. In 1981 he moved to ITN where he was promoted from the position of a news reporter to the position of Middle East correspondent. In 1991, he joined Cable News Network where he spent two decades covering the world but spent most of his time in the Middle East.
In 2009, he became a presenter for the program ‘Inside the Middle East’ on the Cable News Network network.
He is perhaps most well-known for his work in covering the Gulf Wars while he was ITN’s Middle East Correspondent and later Cable News Network"s Beirut Bureau Chief. He has covered wars in Chad, Libya, Uganda, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Iraqi Kurdistan and the Falklands.
He is currently the Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Non-attached News Channel, a 24-hour cable news platform, exclusively affiliated with Cable News Network that covers events in ex-Yugoslav countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia.
Achievements
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Sadler has won numerous individual and team awards over his career. He won the RTS Regional News Award in 1980, the RTS International News Award in 1987 and with the ITN team, won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for the quality of coverage while in Lebanon in 1983. While with Cable News Network his team won the Emmy for their program ‘Saving Somalia’. He has reported from around the world on many conflicts and won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts award for Best Actuality Coverage of the Gulf War and an Overseas Press Club of America Award for Meritorious Reporting.
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America Award; International News Award; Regional News Award Sadler has won numerous individual and team awards over his career. He won the RTS Regional News Award in 1980, the RTS International News Award in 1987 and with the ITN team, won the BAFTA for the quality of coverage while in Lebanon in 1983. While with CNN his team won the Emmy for their program ‘Saving Somalia’. 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.America Award; International News Award; Regional News Award Sadler has won numerous individual and team awards over his career. He won the RTS Regional News Award in 1980, the RTS International News Award in 1987 and with the ITN team, won the BAFTA for the quality of coverage while in Lebanon in 1983. While with CNN his team won the Emmy for their program ‘Saving Somalia’. 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.