Sarah Campbell is a Presenter and Correspondent working to all the BBC’s flagship news programmes. She regularly presents the One O’Clock News and BBC Breakfast – which is the UK’s most-watched morning show with its daily mix of breaking news, political interviews, consumer issues and celebrity chats. She also presents the BBC’s news channel with its focus on delivering breaking news from across the globe. Sarah co-presented BBC Breakfast’s special programme on the Post Office scandal in 2025, which won a BAFTA for the team’s coverage of the long-running news story – the first ever BAFTA win by a breakfast television programme. When she is not anchoring programmes, she is one of the BBC’s most experienced news correspondents and a...
Sarah Campbell is a Presenter and Correspondent working to all the BBC’s flagship news programmes. She regularly presents the One O’Clock News and BBC Breakfast – which is the UK’s most-watched morning show with its daily mix of breaking news, political interviews, consumer issues and celebrity chats. She also presents the BBC’s news channel with its focus on delivering breaking news from across the globe.
Sarah co-presented BBC Breakfast’s special programme on the Post Office scandal in 2025, which won a BAFTA for the team’s coverage of the long-running news story – the first ever BAFTA win by a breakfast television programme.
When she is not anchoring programmes, she is one of the BBC’s most experienced news correspondents and a specialist royal correspondent. In that position, she has played a key role in reporting some of the biggest royal events of recent years including the death of Queen Elizabeth II and coronation of King Charles III. She was at the Invictus Games in Canada in 2017 when Prince Harry went public with Meghan and she has followed every twist and turn from their wedding through to their departure to the States. On the day of the Queen’s death, she was sent to Balmoral and spent the next few days reporting from the gates of the castle and was one of the few journalists there to see the hearse leave to begin the monarch’s final journey.
Throughout 2025, she was the only reporter trusted by the parents of the three little girls killed in the Southport attack to tell the stories of Alice, Bebe and Elsie and the legacies being built in their names. The BBC 1 documentary “Our Girls; The Southport Families” garnered five star reviews with The Times describing it as “a profoundly poignant hour of TV”. The story continues to be one of the hardest but rewarding Sarah has worked on.
Sarah is a true all-rounder who in three decades working for the BBC has reported from Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the Boxing Day Tsunami, the red carpet at the Oscars in Hollywood, the Old Bailey for murder trials including the Soham double murders and Jo Cox MP’s killer as well as following a litter of puppies through their training to become working police dogs.
She loves the variety she has enjoyed in a career which began three days after graduating with a degree in Geography and Politics from the University of Birmingham. Her first job was recording the news circuits at BBC Radio Berkshire, progressing to traffic and travel presenter and politics reporter at BBC South Today. Network news followed via BBC Parliament then the launch team for BBC Three News and reporting for BBC Breakfast and then education correspondent.
She then had two children and returned to work as a news and royal correspondent.
She is a huge darts fan and possibly her proudest moment was beating the then 17 year old Luke Littler over three darts at his house prior to interviewing him. December is mainly spent watching events at the Alexandra Palace – and she has been known to go in full fancy dress to watch in person.
The daughter of a former RAF squadron leader, she moved several times before the age of 9 – living in Oxfordshire, the Scottish Highlands and Lincolnshire. Home is now west London, with her husband and two teenage children with regular trips to Salford and whichever castle or palace becomes the focus of a royal news story.
