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Ford Sanders is an Independent Journalist and content creator based in Austin, TX. He has built a platform of over 100,000 people who he consistently shares the news, daily vlogs and other content with.
Prior to doing content full time, Ford Sanders joined the KVUE News team in October of 2022 as an on-air reporter/multiskilled journalist. He is originally from Nashville, Tennessee, and is a graduate of the University of Tennessee Knoxville, where he earned a degree in journalism and electronic media.
Before KVUE News, he was working in Louisville, Kentucky. There, he covered stories ranging from devastating floods across eastern Kentucky to the federal investigation into the Breonna Taylor case involving the indictments of four Louisville Metro Police Department officers.
Prior to his time in Louisville, Ford reported in eastern North Carolina, covering a variety of topics and breaking news across the Innerbanks and Outerbanks. He also reported for WVLT News in Knoxville, Tennessee, as a digital reporter/content producer while in college. He parted ways with the company when he was offered an internship with CBS News in New York City and CBS Evening News with Norah O’Donnell.
Prior to his time at WVLT News, Ford lived in Prague, Czech Republic, for the summer of 2019 and worked as an international fellow with Transitions Online News and Reuters. Ford is excited to be in Central Texas and is happy to know it&#8217;s an easy flight away from his hometown in Tennessee.

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‘I didn’t hit an officer’: Video shows Texas officers slamming cameraman to the ground during campus protest. The cameraman gets arrested

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‘Cowardly, know-nothing elitist:’ Tucker Carlson’s claim Israel is killing Christians faces conservative backlash

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Ted Cruz hit with election finance complaint over $600,000 in podcast payments to his PAC

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Conspiracy theorists are blaming Texas wildfires on ‘Directed Energy Weapons’

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