Reporters
Ron Sanders
Ron Sanders is chief correspondent for WBZ-TV News' Worcester Bureau. WBZ-TV's Worcester Bureau is a state-of-the-art broadcast facility set up to better serve Worcester County.
A New England-based reporter for more than twenty-five years, Sanders joined WBZ-TV in 1998 after reporting and anchoring for WHDH-TV since 1979. Sanders also anchored and reported for WJBK-TV in Detroit, where he was co-host of "PM Magazine," and for WKHM-AM and FM in Jackson, Michigan.
Throughout his broadcast career, Sanders has been honored with several awards including four Emmy's for breaking news coverage, news events and programming; The Dennis Kauff Memorial Excellence in Reporting Award; the first place news story from the Massachusetts Broadcasters Association and Massachusetts Associated Press Broadcasters, and several honors from the Detroit Press Club and Michigan Broadcasters. Sanders covered official visits and campaign stops of every U.S. President dating back to Richard Nixon. He most recently flew across the country and back to cover the Presidential campaign of Senator John Kerry.
Born in Illinois, raised there and in Michigan, Sanders attended Wayne State University and Harvard University Extension School. He has completed the Boston Marathon five times and once co-wrote a song for David Ruffin, the late lead singer of The Temptations. Sanders resides in Massachusetts with his wife and son.
Boston's WBZ-TV is part of CBS Television Stations, a division of CBS Corporation.