Stone Phillips

Former Dateline NBC News Anchor

Career Highlights: Stone Phillips is the former co-anchor of the award-winning news magazine television show Dateline NBC…He also served as a substitute anchor on NBC Nightly News and Today, and as a substitute moderator on Meet the Press…He earned several honors for his work on Dateline NBC… Some examples of his work include Phillips anchoring live from the Gulf Coast region to report on one of the nation’s worst natural disasters, Hurricane Katrina...  Phillips also was first to interview five of the former U.S. POW’s from the Army’s 507^th Maintenance Company in Iraq, as well as former Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose about the sniper shootings in the Washington D.C. area...Before joining NBC in 1992, Phillips had been a correspondent for ABC News’ 20/20 since 1986…He also served as a substitute host on Good Morning America and as sports anchor on ABC’s World News Sunday…Phillips was a general assignment correspondent for ABC News from 1982-86…From 1979-81, he was an assignment editor at the ABC News Washington bureau…Phillips has received numerous awards for his work, including a 1997 Emmy for outstanding coverage of a continuing news story, a 1996 Emmy for outstanding achievement in an interview, an Investigative Reports and Editors (IRE) Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, three National Headliner Awards and many more…Phillips graduated from Yale University, where he majored in philosophy…He was the starting quarterback on Yale’s 1976 Ivy League Champion football team and won the University’s F. Gordon Brown Award for outstanding academic and athletic leadership.

Updated: May, 2008
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