Biography

Clayton Sandell is a national television correspondent (most recently with Scripps News) and author.

He is also a massive Star Wars fan, and is co-author of Star Wars: Timelines from DK publishing and "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi: A Visual Archive" for Insight Editions. He also writes feature stories for the Lucasfilm websites of Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound. At ABC, he co-produced "The Force of Sound", a documentary featuring the sound design team behind "Star Wars: The Last Jedi".

Previously, Sandell was an ABC News Correspondent based in Denver, filing stories for "Good Morning America," "World News Tonight," "Nightline," ABC News Radio and ABCNews.com.

At ABC, Sandell covered a wide range of breaking news across the West, in addition to stories on climate change, space exploration and the science behind extreme weather.

Prior to his post in Denver, Sandell was an ABC News producer for "World News with Charles Gibson" and "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,"based in Washington DC.

In 2010 Sandell received an Emmy Award as part of the ABC News team that covered the inauguration of President Barack Obama.

In April 2007, Sandell helped cover the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech University. From the U.S. and the Caribbean he has reported on the approach and aftermath of numerous hurricanes, including Hurricane Ike that struck Texas in 2008 and Category-4 Hurricane Wilma that hit Cancun Mexico in 2005.

He was in Haiti in February 2004 during the violent uprisings that led to the ouster of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, and also covered the trials of the two men eventually convicted in the 2002 DC-area sniper murders.

Prior to joining "World News," Sandell was an associate producer for the "Sam Donaldson: Live in America" radio program and the Sam Donaldson daily web cast. He joined ABC's Washington bureau in September 2000, working on the assignment desk.

Before coming to ABC News, Sandell worked as a reporter at Los Angeles news radio station KFWB-AM. During that time he also produced and edited award-winning science and nature documentaries for the Finley-Holiday Film Corporation in Whittier, California. He began his professional broadcasting career in Southern California, first as a DJ at KRTM-FM radio in Temecula and then as a reporter and anchor at KCKC-AM news-talk radio in San Bernardino.

Sandell grew up in Riverside California and graduated from the University of California Riverside with a degree in political science.
- IMDb mini biography by: Scripps News