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About Stephanie

Stephanie Sy is a PBS News Hour correspondent and serves as anchor of PBS News Hour West. Throughout her career, she served in anchor and correspondent capacities for ABC News, Al Jazeera America, CBSN, CNN International, and PBS News Hour Weekend. Prior to joining NewsHour, she was with Yahoo News where she anchored coverage of the 2018 Midterm Elections and reported from Donald Trump’s victory party on Election Day 2016.

Stephanie has been a foreign and domestic journalist for nearly two decades for national, international and local news outlets. She is the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award for her breaking news reports from the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 for ABC News. That year she also received a Business Emmy for her contributions to the ABC World News report “Global Food Crisis.”

At Al Jazeera America, Stephanie anchored the two-hour live morning program. While at the network, she was best known for anchoring major news events including the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling, the re-opening of the U.S. embassy in Cuba, and terrorist attacks in Europe. She was also one of the hosts of the network’s flagship interview program, Talk to Al Jazeera, for which her interview with Gloria Steinem was awarded a Gracie Award in 2015.

Stephanie started her career in local news, working for television stations in Norfolk, VA, and Florence, SC. As the military reporter for WTKR in Norfolk in 2003, Stephanie was dispatched to the Middle East to cover the invasion of Iraq. Her coverage of the war for the former NY Times Broadcast Group won her an Associated Press award. She later returned to Baghdad several times as a reporter for ABC affiliates.

Stephanie serves on the advisory board of Report for America, and has also been a host of Ethics Matter, a public affairs program by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. In 2015, she was awarded an Asian American Journalists Association “Mentor of the Year” Award.

Stephanie received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania, with a double-major in International Relations and Environmental Studies. She was born and raised in Southern California and has two children.

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Stephanie’s Recent Stories

Nation Feb 27

More pregnant women face life-threatening sepsis in wake of strict abortion laws

In the years since the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion and since Texas instituted one of the country’s strictest abortion bans, the state has seen an increased rate of sepsis among women who lost their pregnancies in the…

Nation Feb 11

UN AIDS agency says HIV infections could soar worldwide if U.S. drops support

More than 20 years ago, the U.S. became the leader in the worldwide fight against HIV/AIDS. The Bush administration initiative Pepfar was the largest health commitment made by a nation to combat a single disease. But Trump's cuts have thrown…

World Feb 07

Displaced Gazans return to face shattered homeland and uncertain future

President Trump said he is in “no rush to do anything” in Gaza. Earlier this week, he talked about the need for Palestinians to leave Gaza and for the United States to take over the area and develop it. Also…

Nation Feb 04

The history and legacy of birthright citizenship in the U.S.

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order to end universal birthright citizenship and limit it at birth to people with at least one parent who is a permanent resident or citizen. A federal judge put…

Nation Jan 27

Fear spreads in immigrant communities as raids and deportations escalate

One of the biggest questions as President Trump’s second term begins is just how wide and quickly his administration will conduct mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. Those operations got underway this weekend in Chicago and other cities around the country.

Nation Jan 23

Meet the small team behind the Watch Duty app giving life-saving wildfire updates

Ever since the deadly wildfires began in Los Angeles two weeks ago, residents have largely turned to one app for the most up-to-date information. It’s called Watch Duty and Stephanie Sy spoke to two members of the small team that…

Nation Jan 22

How incarcerated firefighters are helping battle the blazes around Los Angeles

The fire danger in Southern California is far from over. As crews continue their battle, incarcerated firefighters part of a long-running state program are on the frontline. Supporters say the program offers a pathway out of prison, but critics say…

Politics Jan 20

Trump returns to office and kickstarts ambitious and controversial agenda

Donald Trump has returned to office as the 47th president of the United States. His second term kickstarts an ambitious, and controversial, agenda that will bring mass deportations, aggressive tariffs on imports from competitors and allies alike, and a promise…

World Jan 15

Los Angeles officials face tough questions about preparedness and firefighting strategy

It’s been more than a week since two of the most destructive wildfires in California history broke out within hours of each other in Los Angeles. Both blazes remain active and uncontained, and Angelenos again held their breath while firefighters…

Nation Jan 14

‘Everything we know is gone’: Fire victims face devastated communities, uncertain future

Unprecedented warnings about wind conditions have residents around the Los Angeles area on high alert again as firefighters work to control major blazes that have destroyed communities and taken at least 24 lives. Mayor Karen Bass issued an executive order…

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