Kerry Sanders is a retired American broadcast journalist. He was a correspondent for

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from 1991 to 2023.About Us on NBC Nightly News. ''Kerry Sanders: NBC News Correspondent''
accessed April 5, 2011 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),

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in Ft. Myers,

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, the CBS affiliate and later Fox owned and operated station in Tampa and

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(NBC) in Miami. He is a 1982 graduate of the

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, from which he received his bachelor's degree and later a Distinguished Alumni Award. In 1996, he became a correspondent for

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News, based in the network's Miami bureau. He was immediately thrust into a major story, when the

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crash occurred in the Everglades just days after he began with NBC. He was a general assignment reporter and was seen at news events throughout the world and was regularly seen on ''

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'', the ''

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'' show,

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, and ''

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''. He retired on January 17, 2023, after 32 years with the network. During his retirement segment on the ''NBC Nightly News'' broadcast on January 17, 2023, he thanked his wife Deborah for putting up with him.

Awards

Sanders is a Peabody Journalism Award winner, Emmy Award winner,NBC News Wins Five Emmy Awards. Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story Long Form. NBC News Decision 2008 Election Night.
Accessed April 5, 2011 Columbia DuPont Award winner and National Headliner award winner.

Notable coverage

He was well known for his hurricane coverage during his career, including Hurricanes

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, and Katrina. He has also been on the front lines in both

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in 1991 and as an embedded reporter with the US Marines during the

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in 2003.Kusnetz, Mark and Brokaw, Tom. (2003) ''Operation Iraqi Freedom: The Insider Story.'' Kansas City, Missouri. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 256 pages.
A Google Books preview accessed April 5, 2011

References

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