Sara Sidner is a weekend anchor and weekday reporter for KTVU Channel 2 news.
In 2005, she received several awards for the work she has done in the bay area. Sidner was apart of the news team that won the National Edward R. Murrow award for best newscast for coverage of an incredible rescue in the Sierra. She also won a first place Peninsula Press Club award, and a Northern California Radio and Television News Director award for her reporting on the Sierra Rescue story.
In January of 2005, Sidner was sent to Sri Lanka to cover the aftermath of the deadliest tsunami in history. While in devastated South Asia she highlighted work being done by bay area people and non-profits to aid the hundreds of thousands left homeless and hurting. The two-week experience reinforced her belief that she is here to serve others in any way she can.
When not working, Sidner is usually doing something for a charity. She is a board member of Friends of Faith a non-profit charity that helps low-income women who are diagnosed with cancer. She visits bay area classrooms at Laney and City College regularly to talk with students about journalism. She hosts numerous events like the MDA telethon for Jerry's kids, opening day of the Northern California Chapter of the Special Olympics, the Bay Area Black Journalists Association's scholarship and awards banquet, UC Berkeley's IDEAL program which is set up to help students of color succeed in the UC system, and PepsiCo's Diamond Scholar Banquet that give scholarships to exceptional students in need of financial assistance to go to college. She is also involved with the Junior League of San Francisco.
Everytime I see Sara Sidner on tv Im like daaaaaaaamn.Anybody here related to her?Only get to see her sit behind a desk but I know she gotta be thick right? She's always serious cuz she does the news but when she's talking about the taliban I have thoughts of her the night before giggin at some club in the city with a drink in her hand backin it up like yeeeeeee. I'm waitin for her to get a special assignment so she can be out and about in some jeans just goopin feel me.You know those special assignments when you get to see the news cat in their street clothes.Who knew Dennis Richmond was yoked till he did a special assignment about construction workers wearin a wife beater.Yall remember Anna Chavez.......hot lil mami huh.....I love the Noon News.....