Mark Phillips is a Canadian television journalist, and currently, the Senior Foreign Correspondent, based in London (for more than 2 decades), working for CBS News.
[3][4] Phillips began his television journalism career, in the mid-1970s, by joining CBC News beginning as the parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa.
That same year, Phillips became the 1st non-British correspondent to report from the Falkland Islands during the British military's conflict in Argentina.
[3] From 1988 to 1993, Phillips became correspondent based in the CBS News bureau in Washington, where he covered American politics, the investigation into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the United Airlines crash in Sioux City, the Eastern Airlines strike, and then reported from the State Department during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
In 1993, Phillips did return to the CBS News bureau in London, where he covered many major stories which continues today, including the war in the Balkans, the death of Princess Diana, and the weapons inspection conflicts in Iraq.