Sara Sidner is CNN's multiple award winning, New Delhi-based international correspondent and is responsible for the network’s coverage of India and South Asia.
Since taking up this post, Sidner has reported on a wide range of subjects spanning politics, business, terrorism, culture and the social pressures the country faces in its drive to become a world power. Recently, Sidner contributed several reports as part of the ‘Eye on India’ week of special programming including the boom in India’s aviation sector, emergence of smaller towns as growth drivers and an interview with one of India's legendary business leaders. She has contributed several stories to CNN's Freedom Project which is exposing modern day slavery in countries around the world.
She also covered the visit of President Barack Obama to India, the historic Pakistan floods, the Chile and Haiti earthquakes, Sri Lanka’s volatile Presidential elections, a special on victims of Sri Lanka’s civil war and elections in Afghanistan. Sidner also reported on the Mumbai terrorist attacks, as they happened, from outside the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower in Mumbai.
Some of her other stories from the region include in-depth coverage of India’s first moon mission, massive flooding in North East India and across the border in Nepal, and the devastating Myanmar Cyclone.
With more than 15 years of television journalism experience, Sidner has covered many stories of national and international importance including one of the worst natural disasters the world has seen when she traveled to Sri Lanka to cover the aftermath of the Tsunami in 2004 and the 2004 U.S. presidential race in Washington D.C.
Prior to joining CNN, Sidner was a weekend anchor and reporter for KTVU-TV in Oakland, California.
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