Hank Phillippi Ryan (born Harriet Ann Sablosky) is an American investigative reporter for Channel 7 News on WHDH-TV, a local television station in Boston, Massachusetts.

[1][better source needed] Ryan, under her former professional name Harriet Ann Phillipi, was the journalist whose Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the CIA, and the subsequent court case that arose from it, Philippi v. CIA,[3] created the unusual FOIA exemption known as the "Glomar Response".

She had filed a FOIA with the agency asking for records about their attempts to secretly recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974 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 at a cost of about $800 million, or $4.9 billion today.

[citation needed] Ryan lives with her husband, civil rights and criminal defense lawyer Jonathan Shapiro, in suburban Boston.

[1] Although referred to by family as "Ann" or "Annie" while growing up, she was given her trademark nickname "Hank" by a college friend who told her "You don’t look like a Harriet.