Sarah French has been promoted to weekday morning and noon anchor at WHDH-TV NBC 7/WLVI-TV CW 56 in Boston, New England One has learned.
Sarah has been filling in on the anchor desk since Kayna Whitworth left the station at the end of February. The move was made official this morning in an announcement to the newsroom.
Sarah joined WHDH in 2011 from WTIC-TV FOX 61 (FOX CT) in Hartford, CT where she was most recently the weekday morning and midday news anchor. After the death of her friend and colleague Alice Morrin, Sarah became an advocate for domestic violence victims. Sarah focused a lot of her attention toward getting a 911 Texting Bill passed in Connecticut, with a goal of having a 911 Texting Bill passed nationwide.
Sarah won an Emmy for her Make-A-Wish series she started while at FOX CT. She also won an Emmy for her series Hope for Haiti, after traveling there in 2011. In 2010, she received the “Excellence in Local Television Award" by the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association for “Gay in America: Tensions & Tolerance," a special that focused on several teens who killed themselves after being bullied.
Prior to joining FOX CT in 2008 as the weekend anchor and weekday reporter, Sarah worked for the Olympic News Service in Beijing, China. While there, she covered women's artistic gymnastics for the 2008 Olympic Games, and interviewed athletes such as Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin.
Before that, she was an anchor and reporter at KOMU-TV NBC 8 in Columbia, MO - the commercial television station owned by the University of Missouri.
During college, Sarah worked as a staff writer for Life & Home Magazine, establishing a monthly health and fitness column. She also worked as an intern for NBC Universal in Burbank, CA, where she assisted in the production of NBC's annual Press Tour. While in Los Angeles, Sarah was a host for NBC's local television show, YourLA.
in 2006, Sarah won the title of Miss Missouri, and went on to compete in the Miss America competition. As Miss Missouri, Sarah worked as a spokesperson for the Susan G. Komen Foundation and Children's Miracle Network, traveling the state giving motivational speeches and speaking with young students through a program called Right Decisions, Right Now. She also won the Miss Arkansas Teen USA title in 2004.
Sarah is a proud member of Cherokee Nation, and was asked to speak at the National Trail of Tears Conference that was held in Springfield, Mo in 2006.
Born in Dallas, TX, Sarah grew up in Hot Springs, AR. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, the world's first school of journalism founded in 1908.
Sarah and her husband Chris Carpenter are expecting their first child, a baby girl, this fall.
Sarah French Promoted to Weekday Mornings at WHDH
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