Stone Stockton Phillips (born December 2, 1954) is an American television reporter and correspondent on NBC, ABC and PBS.
[2] Phillips attended Parkway West High School in Ballwin, Missouri, where he was an honor student and starting quarterback on the football team.
[3] Phillips was a member of Yale's Scroll and Key secret society and earned the university's prestigious F. Gordon Brown Award for outstanding academic and athletic leadership.
[3] After graduating from Yale, Phillips moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked as a remedial reading and math teacher at the Fulton County Juvenile Detention Center.
Beginning that year, he also served as a substitute host on Good Morning America and a sports anchor for ABC's World News Sunday.
[6] Others included notorious serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, and Bernhard Goetz (a man who shot four black teenagers in the New York City Subway).
[8] In May 2013, Phillips produced and hosted Moving with Grace, a documentary airing on PBS stations that chronicled his efforts and those of his siblings to provide care for their aging parents.