Sarah Campbell is a presenter and correspondent for all of the BBC’s flagship news programmes. She presents the news on BBC Breakfast – the UK’s most watched morning show – and on the BBC’s News Channel and the News at One. In 2024, Sarah co-presented Breakfast’s special programme on the Post Office scandal, which won the News Coverage award at the 2025 BAFTAs. Sarah is one of the BBC’s most experienced news correspondents and a specialist royal correspondent. 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...
Sarah Campbell is a presenter and correspondent for all of the BBC’s flagship news programmes. She presents the news on BBC Breakfast – the UK’s most watched morning show – and on the BBC’s News Channel and the News at One.
In 2024, Sarah co-presented Breakfast’s special programme on the Post Office scandal, which won the News Coverage award at the 2025 BAFTAs.
Sarah is one of the BBC’s most experienced news correspondents and a specialist royal correspondent. 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 and Meghan’s relationship became public, 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 straight to Balmoral and spent the next few days reporting from the gates. Sarah was one of the few journalists there to see the hearse leave, beginning the monarch’s final journey.
Throughout 2025, Sarah 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 most rewarding that Sarah has worked on. In 2026, the film won the Daytime Programme award at the Royal Television Society (RTS) Awards.
Sarah is a true all-rounder who, in three decades at 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 then politics reporter at BBC South Today. Network news followed via BBC Parliament, then the launch team for BBC Three News, reporting for BBC Breakfast, and then education correspondent.
She is a huge darts fan and possibly her proudest moment was beating the then 17-year-old Luke Littler over three darts 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; and she takes regular trips to Salford or whichever castle or palace becomes the focus of a royal news story.
