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Stephanie Sy

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Stephanie Sy
Sy in 2003
Born(1977-01-16)January 16, 1977(age 47)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Occupation(s)News anchor,journalist
Notable creditAl Jazeera America NewsCBSNABC NewsCNNCNN InternationalYahoo! NewsPBS Newshour WeekendCarnegie Council
Spouse
David Jensen Ariosto
(m.2017)
Children1
WebsiteStephanie SyonX

Stephanie Sy(born January 16, 1977)[2][3]is an American television news anchor and reporter for thePBS NewsHour.

Youth and education

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Sy, who is ofChineseheritage,[4]was born and raised in southern California.[1]She graduated from theUniversity of Pennsylvaniacum laudewith a doublemajorininternational relationsandenvironmental studiesin 1999.

Career

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Early career and ABC

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From August 1999 to 2001, Sy was a reporter and fill-in anchor forWBTWinFlorence, South Carolina.[5]In September 2001, she joinedWTKRinNorfolk, Virginia,as a military reporter. Her reporting fromIraqwhileembeddedin 2003 during theIraq Warled to her hiring byABC Newsthat year.[6]Sy reported from London for ABC NewsOne until 2006, when she was a New York-based correspondent. In 2007, she became ABC’s Asia Correspondent in Beijing.[7]Sy was transferred to New York in 2009 and remained there until leaving the network in 2012.[8]Other tasks at ABC included occasional fill-in anchoring onWorld News Now.[9]

Post-ABC

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From 2012 to 2013, Sy was senior editor and correspondent atEveryday Health.In 2013, she joinedAl Jazeera America,where she anchored various newscasts, primarily theweekday morning news,and conducted occasional interviews forTalk to Al Jazeerauntil the network's closure in 2016. Later in 2016, she was a freelance reporter forYahoo News,primarily doing interviews. Starting around November 2017, she was also a freelancer anchor forCNNandCNN International.She filled in for Maggie Lake onCNN Money.She continued to freelance for Yahoo News and also forCBSN,CBS News's online streaming service.[10]

PBS Newshour

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While working as a freelance journalist, Sy contributed to thePBS NewsHour Weekend.In 2019, she was named anchor forPBS NewsHour West,based at theWalter Cronkite School of JournalismofArizona State Universityin Phoenix, and also correspondent for thePBS NewsHour.[11]

Personal life

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Sy is married to David Jensen Ariosto, a supervising producer forNPR'sAll Things Considered.They married on June 17, 2017. Both were previously married.[12]Sy has a daughter from her previous marriage.[13]

Sy is a member of theCarnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs,a501(c)(3)philanthropicorganization committed to international cooperation based inNew York City.[14]

References

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  1. ^ab"Stephanie Sy".WTKR.Archived fromthe originalon March 5, 2003.Retrieved2016-01-13.
  2. ^"RealAge Tests How Old Your Body Thinks it Is Video".Abcnews.go.com.Retrieved2016-01-13.
  3. ^"Stephanie Sy".wtkr.com.Archived fromthe originalon 5 March 2003.Retrieved13 January2016.
  4. ^https://thepenngazette.com/tales-from-a-young-china-hand/
  5. ^"Stephanie Sy - WBTW TV-13".wbtw.com.Archived fromthe originalon 3 July 2001.Retrieved13 January2016.
  6. ^"Former WTKR reporter travels the world for ABC".HamptonRoads.com. May 7, 2007.Retrieved2016-01-13.
  7. ^abc news (2007-11-18)."Stephanie Sy".www.abcnews.com.Retrieved2018-08-07.
  8. ^"ABC Medianet".ABC Television Network.Archived fromthe originalon 2014-08-12.
  9. ^"A WAVY arrival and two departures at WVEC and WTKR".HamptonRoads.com. July 23, 2010.Retrieved2016-01-13.
  10. ^Alan (2018-01-15)."Stephanie Sy joins CNN as a freelance anchor".www.cnncommentary.com.Retrieved2018-08-06.
  11. ^"Award-winning journalist Stephanie Sy named anchor of Cronkite School-based PBS NewsHour West".ASU Now.2019-08-16.Retrieved2019-10-09.
  12. ^"Stephanie Sy, David Ariosto".The New York Times.June 18, 2017. p. ST12.Retrieved2020-11-01.
  13. ^Stephanie Sy."Facebook personal Information".Facebook.Retrieved2018-08-06.
  14. ^Stephanie Sy."LinkedIn personal Information".Retrieved2018-08-06.
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