Field Producer, Assignment Editor - Journalist

Devon M. Sayers is a Award winning journalist, with over 20 year of local and national experience. He is deeply focused on ethics, compelling story telling, and the effective use of resources. 

Currently a Senior Field Producer for CNN, Devon has covered stories across the U.S., and internationally on occasion, chronicling stories of tragedy and hope. These field assignments include:

• Numerous mass shootings, including those at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, SC, Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, FL, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, Santa Fe High School in Texas, Tops Friendly Markets in Buffalo, NY, Walmart in El Paso, TX, the Georgia spa shootings, Twin Peaks in Waco, TX, Florida State University Shooting, and the Dallas Police shooting, among others.
• Civil unrest in Charlottesville, VA, Ferguson, MO, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Baltimore, MD, Charlotte, NC, Atlanta, GA, Elizabeth City, NC, Grand Rapids, MI and others.
• Multiple weather events, including category 5 Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica, reporting the anticipation of arrival, during the storm, and the aftermath. Along with other Hurricanes that hit the continental United States, tornados in the Midwest and Southeast, fires in the west and flooding events within the interior region. 
• Civil Rights stories throughout the country, including the first ever joint interview with the living members of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s entourage from the day he was assassinated in Memphis. And the removal of the confederate flag of the SC State Capitol 
• Numerous elections including, the last five presidential elections, the last three in the field, previous two as a desk editor. 
• Immigration issues across the nation, including the El Paso border region and Lower Rio Grande Valley.
• The Funerals of Former President Jimmy Carter, Representative John Lewis and Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter in Georgia. And Muhammad Ali, in Kentucky.
• Produced for the Health Unit, including with CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent for the first few months of the U.S, arrival of Coronavirus. Deployed to Dallas for the first case of Ebola in the United States. 
• Space operations from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston, TX. Along with Blue Origin operations at Launch Site One near Van Horn, Texas. 

Devon has also been deployed as a site manager for trials and special event coverage for the network. 

Between deployments he fills in as beat leader for the Aviation Unit, and Southeast editor. He previously was a regional and DC slot assignment editor for CNN. 

Prior to CNN Devon was assignment and planning editor at KOAT in Albuquerque, NM. 

In 2026 Devon was named RIAS Berlin Commission fellow. 

He has been nationally recognized with three Peabody Awards, three National Edward R. Murrow Awards, SPJ Sigma Delta Chi Award for Investigative Reporting, and six National Emmy nominations.  His work has been locally recognized with a regional Edward R. Murrow, and New Mexico State Broadcast Association awards for breaking news, newscast, feature news & station of the year. ​ 

Devon is a graduate of the NPPA News Video Workshop, and has attended a number of RTNDA, Poynter, IRE, IJA and local press clubs training sessions. He holds a perfect pint certification from the Guinness Academy at St. Jame's Gate, Ireland, and a FAA Part 107 drone license.  He also is a graduate of Adult Space Academy at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL - and yep that is a thing, and it is just as nerdy cool as you think it would be. Additionally he has specialized training in hostile environments.

Devon proudly grew up in Mansfield, Ohio and is now based in Atlanta.