Roxana Saberi
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Roxana Saberi

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Roxana Saberi is an author, composer and independent journalist, reporting and storytelling for U.S. and international audiences. With a journalism career spanning more than two decades, she has reported from around the world, covering breaking news, global affairs, features, and in-depth investigations. Her work has earned numerous honors, including a Wilbur Award for Excellence (2025), a News & Documentary Emmy Award as part of the CBS Mornings team (2022), and multiple awards recognizing press freedom and journalistic courage. Saberi served as a correspondent for CBS Network TV News for several years, based in New York, London and Chicago. Her reporting appeared across all CBS News broadcasts and platforms. She covered a range of stories, including the Israel-Hamas war, the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan, the migrant crisis in Europe, two FIFA World Cups, and climate change in Antarctica. She also served as a correspondent on two documentaries, one on Jewish-Muslim relations in the United States and another on the 2023 East Palestine, Ohio, toxic train derailment. Before joining CBS News, Saberi reported for Al Jazeera America, where she covered breaking news, enterprise, and investigative stories and created and led a human rights beat, traveling across the United States and abroad. From 2003 to 2009, Saberi spent six years living and reporting in Iran, filing reports for the BBC and other international and U.S.-based outlets. She covered everything from nuclear diplomacy to culture and gender roles in Iran. Her reporting extended into Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Tajikistan, Israel, and the UAE. In 2009, while writing a book about Iran, she was arrested and incarcerated in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison. Saberi was later sentenced to eight years in prison on a trumped-up charge of espionage. Following an international campaign for her release, an Iranian court overturned the sentence. Back in the United States, she authored the memoir "Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran," which was published by HarperCollins and has been translated into several languages. She also became an advocate for press freedom and human rights. Saberi has received the Medill Medal of Courage, the Ilaria Alpi Freedom of the Press Award, the NCAA Award of Valor, a Project for Middle East Democracy Award, an East-West Freedom Award from the Levantine Cultural Center, and the Concordia College Sent Forth Award. She was named one of Jaycees’ 2011 Ten Outstanding Young Americans and was honored by the Japanese American Citizens League as an “Outstanding Woman.” In September 2011, she was chosen as a “commended” artist for the Freedom to Create Main Prize. Saberi grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, the daughter of Reza Saberi, who was born in Iran, and Akiko Saberi, who is from Japan. She was chosen Miss North Dakota in 1997 and was among the top ten finalists in Miss America 1998. She graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, with degrees in communications and French. Saberi holds her first master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University and her second master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge. She began her journalism career as a local news reporter in Fargo, North Dakota, and later, at News 24 Houston.
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