Stone Phillips Biography
Stone Stockton Phillips is an American TV reporter and correspondent for NBC, ABC, and PBS. He is best known as the former co-anchor of Dateline NBC, a newsmagazine television show.
Age
Stone was born on 2 December 1954, in Texas City, Texas, United States of America. He is 69 years old as of December 2023.
Education
Phillips attended Parkway West High School in Ballwin, Missouri, where he was an honor student. Phillips graduated with honors from Yale University in 1977, earning a Bachelor of Philosophy.
Family
Stone Phillips was born on December 2, 1954, in Texas City, Texas, to Victor and Grace Phillips, both Monsanto chemical engineers and school teachers. Victor Phillips is a WWII veteran. Phillips and his siblings—brother Victor III and sister Minta—grew up in the Claymont neighborhood of Ballwin, Missouri, in the Greater St. Louis region. Phillips is of Scottish descent.
Wife- Spouse
Phillips is happily married to his wife Debra Del Toro-Phillips who is Puerto Rican, the two lives in New York.
NBC, ABC, and PBS
After graduating from Yale, Phillips moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where she worked as a literacy and math teacher at the Fulton County Juvenile Detention Center. When she landed a news anchor job at local NBC station WXIA-TV, she supplemented her salary by working part-time as a waitress. After working as a journalist, author and broadcaster in Atlanta for less than two years, in 1980 Phillips was hired by ABC News as a reporter in its Washington, D.C. bureau. He began reporting for ABC in 1982; He covered major events such as the war in Lebanon, the evacuation of Vietnamese boatmen in the mid-1980s, and Rajiv Gandhi’s campaign after his mother’s murder. . In 1986, Phillips was promoted to a regular position at ABC News magazine 20/20. Since that year, he has served as a substitute host on “Good Morning America” and as a sports anchor on ABC’s “Sunday World News.”
Phillips ended her 12-year relationship with ABC in 1992 and joined NBC News, partnering with Jane Pauley for 11 years and partnering with Ann Curry at Dateline NBC for 4 years. While at NBC News, Phillips also hosted The Weekend Magazine with Rock Phillips. He did a long list of celebrity interviews during his tenure at NBC. This includes the first online interview with U.S. Army soldier Lindy England about her role in the Abu Ghraib scandal. Others include notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Bernhard Goetz (the man who killed four black teenagers on the New York subway). The latter earned Phillips an Emmy Award for Outstanding Speech. Phillips served at NBC from its inception until July 2, 2007, when NBC did not renew his $7 million contract.
Phillips was a guest on the premiere of The Colbert Report on October 17, 2005. Phillips’ comments inspired comedian Stephen Colbert’s character on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” On December 18, 2014, Phillips appeared again on the final episode of The Colbert Report. As of 2012, Phillips writes reports for PBS NewsHour. In 2013, he reported on the golf course for Golf Channel. In May 2013, Phillips produced and hosted the documentary “Walking the Path” that aired on PBS, documenting his and his siblings’ efforts to care for their elderly mother. It also explores many of the challenges other baby boomers have faced in similar situations.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 3 million dollars.