Stone Phillips Bio, Wiki, Age, Height, Wife, Son, Family, ABC News, PBS, NBC, Salary and Net Worth

Stone Phillips Biography

Stone Phillips is an American television reporter and correspondent who was born in Texas City, Texas, in the United States as Stone Stockton Phillips. Phillips is best recognized as the former co-anchor of Dateline NBC, a news magazine TV series.

Phillips also has worked as a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News and Today and as a substitute moderator on Meet the Press, prior to his tenure at NBC, he was an ABC News correspondent for 20/20 as well as a World News Tonight.

10 Quick Facts About Stone Phillips

1. Name: Stone Phillips
2. Age:  67 years
3. Birthday: 2nd December
4. Height: 6 feet 2 inches
5. Weight: Under review
6. Nationality: American
7. Occupation: Reporter and correspondent
8. Marital Status: Married to Deborah Del Toro Phillips
9. Salary: $24,292 and $72,507
10. Net Worth: $1 to $  5 Million

Stone Phillips Age

Phillips is 67 years old as of 2021, he was born on 2 December 1954, in Texas City, Texas, the United States as Stone Stockton Phillips. He celebrates his birthday on December 2 every year and his birth sign is Sagittarius.

Stone Phillips Height

Phillips stands at a height of 6 feet 2 inches. 

Stone Phillips Education

Regarding his education, he was an honored student at Parkway West High School in Ballwin, Missouri. During his high school, he also played as a starting quarterback of the school football team. Later he joined Yale University and continued to excel in academics as well as athletics.

In his college days, Phillips played for the Yale Bulldogs Squad who had won the Ivy League football championship. At that time, he was a member of Yale’s Scroll and Key secret society.  He has received the university’s prestigious F. Gordon Award for outstanding academic and athletic leadership. In 1977, he graduated with honors, earning a Bachelor of Philosophy.

Stone Phillips Parents

Stone spent his childhood in the Claymont section of Ballwin, Missouri, where he was raised alongside his brother, Victor III, and sister Minta by their father, Victor Phillips, a WWII veteran, and mother, Grace, who worked as a school teacher and chemical engineer at Monsanto.

He attended as an acolyte of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Ellisville, Missouri, where his parents were the founding members of its congregation.

Stone Phillips Wife

Phillips is happily married to his wife Debra Del Toro-Phillips. Debra, as a kid, moved to New York City, but she has an ethnicity of Puerto Rican. She has a successful career as a fashion designer. After getting success in her career, she returned to college, where she gained a master’s degree in social work. Together, the couple had welcomed their first child, their son Streeter Phillips, in 1988. Though after seven years they had a daughter in August 1995, she died on the same day.

He currently resides in New York with his family. Further, he has not shared much information on his personal life or past relationships. Moreover, the reporter has been rumored once when he left NBC News. But then he never had been involved in any controversies or violence in his personal life.

Stone Phillips Children

There is no information about Stone’s children at the moment. We will update this section as soon as the details about his kids surface

Stone Phillips Salary

Stone receives an average annual salary of between $24,292 and $72,507. This translates to an hourly average wage of between $10.15 and $31.32.  This is Per our average wage estimates for a journalist in the United States. However, these figures may vary substantially according to the level of seniority of the employee. At the moment, we do not have the exact salary but we will update this section when the information is available.

Stone Phillips Net Worth

Phillips has an estimated net worth of $15 Million dollars as of 2022. This includes his assets, money, and income. His primary source of income is his career as a television reporter and correspondent. Through his various sources of income, Phillips has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Stone Phillips Awards and Achievements

Apart from winning an Emmy Award for Outstanding Interview, Phillips has also won a number of other significant awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the Investigative Reporters as well as Editors’ Gold Medal, etc. Phillips has also won several times a National Headliner Award.

Stone Phillips Measurements and Facts

Here are some interesting facts and body measurements you should know about Phillips.

Stone Phillips Wiki

• Full Names: Stone Stockton Phillips
• Popular As: television reporter and correspondent.
• Gender: Male
• Occupation / Profession: Journalist
• Nationality: American
• Race / Ethnicity: Scottish
• Religion: Christianity
• Sexual Orientation: Straight

Stone Phillips Birthday

• Age / How Old?: 67 years
• Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
• Date of Birth: 2 December 1954
• Place of Birth: Texas City, Texas
• Birthday: 2 December

Stone Phillips Body Measurements

• Body Measurements: Not Available
• Height / How Tall?: 6 feet and 2 inches
• Weight: Moderate
• Eye Color: Dark Brown
• Hair Color: Brown

Stone Family and Relationship

• Father (Dad): Victor Phillips
• Mother: Grace Phillips
• Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Victor III Phillips and Minta Phillips
• Marital Status: Married
• Wife/Spouse: Married to Debra Del Toro-Phillips
• Children:  Sons (Streeter Phillips)

Stone Net Worth and Salary

• Net Worth: $15 million
• Salary: Under Review
• Source of Income: television reporter and correspondent.

Stone Phillips ABC

Following his graduation,  Phillips relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, where he worked as a remedial reading and math teacher at the Fulton County Juvenile Detention Center. He was boosting his income by moonlighting as a waiter when he landed an entry-level news position at WXIA-TV, the local NBC affiliate.

After less than two years as a reporter, writer, and broadcast producer in Atlanta, Phillips secured a job at ABC News as an assignment editor for its Washington, D.C., news bureau.  In 1982, he began filing stories as an on-air correspondent for ABC, reporting on such major events as the war in Lebanon, the exodus of Vietnamese boat people in the mid-1980s, and Rajiv Gandhi’s election campaign following the assassination of his mother, Indira Gandhi.

In 1986, Stone got promoted to a regular role on the ABC newsmagazine 20/20. Beginning that year, he also served as a substitute host on Good Morning America and a sports anchor for ABC’s World News Sunday.

Stone Phillips NBC

He stayed at ABC for twelve years and transferred to NBC News to serve as co-anchor with Jane Pauley on Dateline NBC.

While at NBC News, Phillips also hosted Weekend Magazine with Stone Phillips. He also conducted a long list of notable interviews during his time with NBC. Among them was the first network interview with Lynndie England, the U.S. Army soldier, about her role in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. 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).

The latter earned Phillips an Emmy Award for Outstanding Interview. Phillips co-anchored Dateline NBC from its inception until July 2, 2007, when NBC did not renew his $7 million contract.

As of 2012, Phillips was contributing reports to the PBS NewsHour. In 2013, he reported on golf course water usage for The Golf Channel.

Phillips stands at a height of 6 feet 2 ½ inches (1.89 m) tall