Ronald L. "Cameron" Sanders
Ronald L. "Cameron" Sanders is an American Journalist as well as a Consultant to non-profits and corporations on media matters. He was Business Editor and Host of public radio’s Marketplace (radio program) 1989-1993 and a correspondent for CNN from 1989–1993, based in Los Angeles. He served as a Vice President of A. G. Edwards (now Wells Fargo Advisors) from 1993–2002, based in St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to this he was a reporter at Financial News Network (later CNBC), Economics Correspondent at KDFW Channel 4 then CBS (1983–1988) in Dallas, Business Editor at KOCO Channel 5 ABC in Oklahoma City and a Reporter at KOTV Channel 6 CBS in Tulsa, Oklahoma, WEAU Channel 13 NBC in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and KBSD Channel 6 CBS in Dodge City, Kansas. Following his time at CNN and public radio, Sanders was President of the Media Communications Association-International and Chairman of the University City, Missouri Commission for Access and Local Original Programming (CALOP [1]), which allocated funds derived from cable TV subscribers to fund local filmmakers to create quality programs about local culture, arts and history. While CALOP Chair (and, later, Executive Director), he Hosted Liquid Light, a prime time cable television show on the Higher Education Consortium cable channel (HEC-TV} [1]) in the St. Louis region (2003–2008) which featured local filmmakers and documentarians. Sanders wrote a chapter in the book, Creating Digital Content (McGraw-Hill 2002), entitled "The Case for Professional Communicators in a Digital Age." He is currently a Media Consultant and Advisor.
Cameron Sanders has interviewed Ronald Reagan (in office and prior), George Herbert Walker Bush (in office and prior), Bill Clinton (in office and an prior). He also interviewed Jimmy Carter repeatedly.
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Cameron Sanders was named an Admiral in the Third Texas Navy by Texas Governor Ann Richards on June 13, 1991 for his "service to Texas." He was awarded a Telly Award in 2006 as host of HEC-TV's Liquid Light for an interview show on "University City: The First Decade" (a documentary that he had commissioned as Chair of CALOP). Sanders' team at A.G. Edwards won an additional 22 Telly Awards under his management as well as 7 Awards in Excellence in Media or AiME Awards (also known as Golden Reels) from the Media Communications Association-International. Sanders contributed to KOCO's George Foster Peabody Award in 1982 for "Oklahoma's Shame." He won awards from the Dallas Press Club, the Los Angeles Press Club and numerous state Associated Press Awards. In 1981 he was recognized by the Northwest Broadcast News Association for a segment on the Mariel boatlift Cuban Refugee Camp at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin near Sparta, Wisconsin.
Cameron Sanders was born May 30, 1958 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He attended La Sierra University in Riverside, California. He is married to Yvonne P. Sanders (nee Watson). He resides in Tustin, California. When Sanders joined AFTRA (the broadcast union) in 1985 he was required to choose a professional name other than Ron Sanders because another broadcaster had previously joined the union under that name. As a result, he has been known professionally as Cameron Sanders since that date.