Hank Phillippi Ryan Biography
Hank Phillippi Ryan is an American investigative reporter who works for WHDH-TV, a local Boston television station. She has also written mystery novels. She joined WTHR-TV in Indianapolis as political reporter in 1975.
Hank Phillippi Ryan Age
Ryan was born Harriet Ann Sablosky in 1951, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. She is 72 years old as of 2023.
Hank Phillippi Ryan Education
Ryan was born in Indianapolis, Indiana. She studied at the International School in Hamburg, Germany and Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio.
Hank Phillippi Ryan Husband
Ryan is married to her husband, civil rights and criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Shapiro, together they live in suburban Boston.
Hank Phillippi Ryan Career
Her first job in broadcasting was as a reporter for WIBC radio in 1971, and after working as a legislative assistant in Washington, DC for the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Administrative Practice and Procedure Subcommittee, she became an editorial assistant at Rolling Stone’s Washington Bureau. In 1975, she joined WTHR-TV in Indianapolis as a political reporter, and in 1976, she moved to WSB-TV in Atlanta as a political reporter and weekend anchor. Ryan began her career as a general assignment reporter at WNEV-TV (now WHDH) in 1983 and was promoted to principal reporter for the station’s investigation team in 1989. Ryan has received numerous Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Awards for her investigative and consumer reporting.
Ryan, formerly known as Harriet Ann Phillipi, was the journalist whose Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the CIA, and the ensuing court case that resulted from it, Philippi v. CIA, established the rare FOIA exception known as the “Glomar Response.” She had filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the agency in 1974, requesting records about their attempts to secretly recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor using the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer as part of Project Azorian, which was one of the most complex, expensive, and secretive intelligence operations of the Cold War, costing approximately $800 million, or $4.7 billion today. Instead than simply withholding documents or redacting portions of records.
Ryan has received numerous prizes for her crime fiction, including Agathas, Anthonys, Daphnes, Macavities, and the Mary Higgins Clark Award for The Other Woman. According to national reviews[who? ], she is a “master at crafting suspenseful mysteries” and “a superb and gifted storyteller.” Her work as an investigative reporter at WHDH-TV in Boston and as a television reporter since 1975 has resulted in new legislation, people being sentenced to prison, homes being saved from foreclosure, and millions of dollars in refunds and reparations for victims and customers. Ryan was the 2019 Guest of Honor at the world mystery convention Bouchercon.
Hank Phillippi Ryan Books
Prime Time (2007)
Face Time (2007)
Air Time (2009)
Drive Time (2009)
The Other Woman (2012)
The Wrong Girl (2013)
Truth Be Told (2014
What you See (2015
Say No More (2016)
Trust Me (2018)
The Murder List (2019)
The First to Lie (2020)
Her Perfect Life (2021)
The House Guest (2023)
Hank Phillippi Ryan Net Worth
Hank has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.