As a reporter or expert analyst Sacerdoti has appeared on international TV channels including
Sky News,
BBC News,
ITV news,
Channel 4 News,
Fox News,
Al Jazeera English,
NDTV and
France 24. In 2013 he became UK correspondent for
i24news[6] and in 2020 appeared as a regular UK correspondent on the financial news network
Cheddar News.[7][8][9] In 2022 he started to cover the British royal family on Fox News [10] and also recorded the Fox documentary "Who is King Charles III?"[11] In the US he is a regular guest commentator on
E! Channel’sDaily Pop as a UK expert.[12] He has also appeared regularly as a co-host and guest on the American publication
Us Weekly’spodcasts.[13]
His work as a voice artist includes narrating an English language audiobook of the
Quran in 2019.[14]
Journalism and writing
He writes regularly for various publications including the
Daily Express and
The Spectator. He had his first byline in a national newspaper when he was 17 years old, writing for The Daily Telegraph.[15][16] He is a Special Correspondent for the
Jewish Chronicle newspaper,[17] covering investigations[18] features[19] and major news stories.[20]
In 2020, Sacerdoti was part of a consortium of business and media figures [21][22] which acquired the London-based Jewish Chronicle newspaper. The newspaper was founded in 1841 and is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world.[23] It had announced its intention to seek a creditor’s voluntary liquidation, with 54 journalists and support staff told they would be made redundant, an outcome which was avoided through the consortium’s acquisition of the newspaper.[24]
TV Production
Sacerdoti worked as a television producer on the
Channel 4 breakfast news programme
RI:SE[25] and on the
Channel 5 news discussion programme The Wright Stuff.[26] He has also worked as a development producer on entertainment and factual programmes for various production companies, including
Endemol, where his original format "My Childhood" was commissioned by the BBC and won
BAFTA Scotland’s Best Factual Programme 2006. Whilst at Endemol, he worked on the development of the UK version of Deal or No Deal.[27] Between 2005 and 2006, he worked at
ITV, and then at
Shine TV until 2007.[28] He also set up his own
communications and design practice, Sacerdoti Creative Consultancy.[29]
As a journalist and a campaigner Sacerdoti has made many high profile public statements about antisemitism and other racisms, as well as about the Holocaust.[37][38][39] He has spoken about the racial persecution his father experienced as a child under the
Italian Racial Laws[40],and written about the members of the Florentine Catholic Church who hid and saved his father as a child during
the Shoah.[41][42][43] He argues that true
anti-racism requires individuals to act fairly to protect each other, using the example of the Catholic priests and nuns who saved his father’s life: "When faced with the question of what our duty is as citizens of the world, each of us can choose to make a difference, just as they did."[44]
He is critical of the use of the acronyms
BAME and
BIPOC because they exclude Jewish, Gypsy, Roma and Travellers of Irish Heritage groups, and because they create "linguistic opacity."[45]
He was also critical of
Whoopi Goldberg’s comments on
The View when she said that the Holocaust was not about race, calling her comments "absolute nonsense" and "outrageous".[46] He questioned Goldberg’s claims of being Jewish and argued against her use of a Jewish stage name, as well as her writing racist anti-black jokes for a white comedian to deliver in
blackface.[47] Sacerdoti also criticised Children’s author
Roald Dahl’s anti-Jewish racism, suggesting that his "antisemitic attitudes were, and probably remain, widespread among some parts of British society."[48]
He has also written extensively about
antisemitism in Arabic language TV broadcasts[49][50][51] as well as about positive interactions between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East.[52][53]