Field Producer, Assignment Editor - Journalists

Devon M. Sayers is a Peabody Award winning journalist, with over 20 year of local and national experience. He is deeply focused on ethics, compelling story telling, and the effective use of resources. Devon holds a FAA Part 107 drone license and has specialized training in hostile environments.  His deployments include to category 5 and below hurricanes both domestic and internationally, civil unrest and large scale demonstrations. He has also reported from a U.S. State Department level 4 country.

Devon has been nationally recognized with three Peabody Awards, three National Edward R. Murrow Awards, SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting, and five National Emmy nominations.  His work has been locally recognized with a regional Edward R. Murrow, and New Mexico State Broadcast Association awards for breaking news, newscast, feature news & station of the year. ​ 

Devon is a graduate of the NPPA News Video Work Shop, and has also attended a number of RTNDA, Poynter, IRE and local press clubs training sessions. He also holds a perfect pint certification from the Guinness Academy at St. James’s Gate, Ireland.

Devon proudly grew up in Mansfield, Ohio, and is currently a Senior Field Producer for CNN based in Atlanta.