WSMV Channel 4 Forrest Sanders

Tennessee native Forrest Sanders is a reporter, videographer and editor and Middle Tennessee's only television journalist focusing full-time on the Clarksville area. 

Originally from Collierville, Tenn., Forrest's interest in broadcasting was sparked by his years competing with Mickey Hutson's Collierville High School Speech and Debate team. After high school, Forrest majored in Mass Communications at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. There, he became involved in the school's student television station, MTTV. 

He credits his most formative experience as a journalist as being a trip to Honduras, where he and MTSU professor Stephan Foust produced a short documentary titled "12 Days in Cane." The documentary showed the efforts of a group of MTSU students and faculty working to bring food, supplies and the arts to a third world community. 

After college, Forrest kicked off his career at Bowling Green's WBKO under news director Henry Chu. Among his favorite moments was the story of an American pilot who shot down an enemy plane in the Vietnam War, only for the two pilots to reunite as friends 40 years later. 

He also spent eight months shooting footage of a church community rebuilding their historic building after it was burned to the ground by an unsolved arson fire. 

After spending a year working as a videographer under chief videographer Phil Dunaway at WSMV, Forrest is proud to bring you the latest in education, crime and local politics in Clarksville. 

In his free time, Forrest loves hanging out with his old friends from college, MTTV, WBKO and WSMV. He's also an avid movie buff, so feel free to strike up a conversation about film if you see him out on the street (especially if it concerns the horror genre). 

If you have any Clarksville story tips or you'd just like to talk movies, Forrest would love to hear from you at forrest.sanders@wsmv.com. 

Forrest Sanders is the winner of a Telly Award, a MarCom Award, seven first place Kentucky Associated Press Awards, and two first place Tennessee Associated Press Awards.