Mark Phillips Bio, Wiki
Mark Phillips is an Emmy Award-winning Canadian television journalist who serves as the CBS News senior foreign reporter in London. He has been there since 1993.
Mark Phillips Age
Phillips was born in 1948 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is 73 years as of 2021.
Mark Phillips Family
Phillips is a very private person when it comes to his personal details. Thus he has not disclosed any details on his family. We will be sure to update you once this information is available to us.
Mark Phillips Wife
Phillips presently resides in London, England, with his wife and four children. However, not much is known about his wife and children as he has kept them off the limelight.
Mark Phillips Education
In 1970, he graduated from McGill University with a bachelor’s degree in social sciences and humanities. In the early 1970s, Phillips also attended Boston University’s Graduate School of Public Communications.
Mark Phillips Career
Phillips began his career in television journalism in the mid-1970s as a legislative correspondent for CBC News in Ottawa. Phillips rose through the ranks of the network’s London office to become a correspondent in the late 1970s. After leaving CBC News in 1982, Phillips moved to the United States and worked as a correspondent for CBS News’ London office, covering events in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Phillips became the first non-British correspondent to report from the Falkland Islands during the British military’s struggle in Argentina that year.
From 1984 to 1986, Phillips was assigned to the CBS News bureau in Moscow, where he covered three Soviet leaders: Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev, as well as the Reagan-Gorbachev conference in Moscow and the restart of US-Soviet arms talks. Phillips worked for CBS News in Rome from 1986 to 1988, where he covered the Vatican and Pope John Paul II, as well as the Iran-Iraq war and the Afghan war. From 1988 to 1993, Phillips worked as a correspondent for CBS News in Washington, where he covered American politics, the investigation into the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, the United Airlines crash in Sioux City, the Eastern Airlines strike, and the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
Phillips did return to the CBS News bureau in London in 1993, where he covered several major stories that continue to this day, including the Balkans war, Princess Diana’s death, and the weapons inspection battles in Iraq. His work has been recognized over time through multiple EMMY awards,along with others, including the 2014 Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association as well as a citation from the Society of Environmental Journalists for his work on climate change.
What is Phillips Salary?
He earns an approximate salary of $120,000 annually.
Phillips Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $600,000.
