Stone Phillips is a journalist and a news correspondent who is best known as the co-anchor of Dateline NBC, a news-magazine show. He has worked as a replacement moderator on Meet the Press and as an anchor on NBC Nightly News and Today. For his Outstanding Interview, Phillips received an Emmy Award.

Early childhood development and education

Stone Phillips was born in Texas City, Texas, on December 2, 1954, as Stone Stockton Phillips. He is of Scottish ancestry and possesses American citizenship.
Phillips is the son of Victor Phillips, a chemical engineer at Monsanto, and Grace Phillips, a schoolteacher. He was raised in the Claymont district of Ballwin, Missouri, in the Greater St. Louis area, with two siblings, Victor and Minta.

Phillips attended Parkway West High School, where he was the football team’s quarterback. He went on to Yale University, where he excelled in both athletics and academics.

He was awarded the F. Gordon Brown Award for his outstanding academic and athletic achievements before graduating from the University.

Career

Stone Since 1986, Phillips has worked as a reporter and correspondent. After graduating, Phillips traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked at the Fulton County Juvenile Detention Center as a remedial reading and arithmetic teacher.

Phillips then went to work for WXIA-TV, a local NBC affiliate. He was employed as an assignment editor by ABC News’ Washington, D.C. bureau.

Phillips worked for ABC News for almost 12 years before joining NBC News as a co-anchor on Dateline NBC with Jane Pauley. He also co-hosted Weekend Magazine on NBC News with Stone Phillips.

Philips’ contract with NBC to co-anchor Dateline NBC expired on July 2, 2007, when the network decided not to renew his $7 million contract. Phillips contributed to a PBS NewsHour piece in 2012, and in 2013, he reported on golf course water usage for The Golf Channel.

Private life

Stone Phillips married Debra Phillips, a former prominent fashion designer with a master’s degree in psychology. This couple dated for a long time before getting married.
Streeter Phillips, the couple’s only child, was born in 1988. In August 1995, his wife Debra gave birth to a daughter, who was born 13 weeks early and died the same day.

Phillips has a scientist brother and a retired radiologist sister who both live in North Carolina.

What is your net worth?

Stone Phillips was a previous co-anchor of the show until 2007 when his $7 million contract with the network was not renewed. Despite the fact that several sources claim that his net worth is hidden from practically everyone, the source claims that he has a net worth of $15 million.