Widely acknowledged for her Emmy Award-winning work, Stacey Sager is an accomplished American journalist who has been a reporter for Channel 7 Eyewitness News since 1996. Before joining WABC-TV, she served as a reporter at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island.

In 2024, Stacey Sager is currently 57 years old, though specific details about her date of birth have not been disclosed.

Born in New York, Stacey Sager was raised and educated in various cities, including Boston, Chicago, and Washington D.C. She pursued her undergraduate studies at Tufts University, majoring in political science. Later, she obtained a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from the Medill School of Northwestern University.

Stacey Sager was raised by her parents, Jerome Sager of Guttenberg, New Jersey, and the late Marilyn Wendy Sager. While details about her parents are known, she has chosen not to disclose information about her siblings.

She is married to Andrew Loring Platt, and together, they live in Nassau County with their two daughters. Their wedding took place at the Harmonie Club in New York, officiated by Rabbi Albert Sturmer. Andrew Loring Platt works in the mortgage-backed securities group at Lehman Brothers, the New York-based investment bank.

Stacey initiated her on-air career at a small station in Bangor, Maine, before moving on to reporting roles at WNEP-TV in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and WJAR-TV in Providence, Rhode Island. Throughout her career, she has garnered numerous Emmy nominations and secured an Emmy Award for her coverage of the 2007 steampipe explosion in midtown Manhattan.

Throughout her remarkable tenure at WABC-TV, Stacey Sager has covered a broad spectrum of local, national, and international stories, underscoring her commitment and adaptability in journalism. Her reporting has encompassed significant events such as the Bush-Gore presidential race, the war in Kosovo, the Al Qaeda prisoners in Cuba, the execution of Timothy McVeigh, the death of JFK Jr., the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the tragic attacks of September 11th. Particularly poignant is Sager’s reflection on the personal and emotional impact of her career, spending hours with families desperately searching for loved ones in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

Sager’s net worth is between $1 million and $5 million. Her annual salary is in the range of $40,000 to $110,500.