Sally-Ann Roberts is an American broadcaster. She worked for 40 years in news television before retiring in 2018.

Early life and career

Sally-Ann Roberts was born in Chandler, Arizona, the daughter of Lawrence and Lucimarian Roberts. Her father was a colonel in the Air Force and was one of the Tuskegee Airmen. She graduated in 1974 from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Broadcaster

Roberts was working every other weekend at a Mississippi TV station, WDAM, when she was recruited for WWL-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana by its longtime assistant general manager and news director Phil Johnson on the recommendation of anchor Angela Hill. She was hired as a member of the news team at WWL on March 31, 1977, and co-anchored the Eyewitness Morning News with Eric Paulsen. She remained with the station until she retired in 2018.

Author

She is the author of Going Live: An Anchorwoman Reports Good News. With a foreword by her sister Robin Roberts, and photographs by her news colleague Eric Paulsen, Roberts authored an inspirational book, Your Power is On!: A Little Book of Hope. In addition to these non-fiction books, Roberts authored the novel Angel Vision. She gives motivational speeches around the United States.

Personal life

She is the older sister of Robin Roberts, a co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America.

Books