Stephen Scott Bell (December 9, 1935 – January 25, 2019) was an American journalist and educator.
He first covered the Vietnam War in 1967, and was held in detention in Cambodia in 1970 while investigating an alleged massacre of nearly 100 Vietnamese civilians by Cambodian soldiers.
[2][5][6] He met Ted Koppel, later the anchor of the ABC program Nightline, during his years in Southeast Asia, and they became good friends.
[7] After his return to the United States, he began working on Good Morning America, becoming the broadcast's news anchor in 1975.
He left ABC in 1986 and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to co-anchor evening newscasts for KYW-TV.