NEW YORK — There isn't much that scares veteran CNN correspondent Sara Sidner.
As Moammar Kadafi's regime fell in Libya in 2011, Sidner coolly and methodically reported on the celebration in the streets of Tripoli while trying to avoid the bullets and shells being sprayed into the air. ("Please don't shoot sir," she said as if it were a minor distraction.)
When most of the country was in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Sidner spent 176 days on the road, many of them in Minneapolis covering the murder of George Floyd by police. She became a fixture during the protests and facilitated the first conversation between the city's police chief and Floyd's family.
