Kyra Phillips (born August 8, 1968) is an American news anchor. She is on the weekday edition of CNN Newsroom.
Phillips was born in Illinois, grew up in San Diego and received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. Among her first jobs in broadcasting were the positions of weekend anchor and reporter for WLUK-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin before moving on to WDSU-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1994. Phillips...
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Kyra Phillips (born August 8, 1968) is an American news anchor. She is on the weekday edition of CNN Newsroom.
Phillips was born in Illinois, grew up in San Diego and received her bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Southern California. Among her first jobs in broadcasting were the positions of weekend anchor and reporter for WLUK-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin before moving on to WDSU-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1994. Phillips has also held positions as morning anchor for KAMC-TV in Lubbock, Texas, field producer for CNN-Telemundo’s Washington, D.C. offices and a journalist of the special assignment unit of KCBS-TV in Los Angeles, California. In her spare time, Phillips participates in Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and has been doing so since 1992.
Phillips joined CNN in 1999. During her early years at CNN, Phillips was granted access to U.S. Navy airwing CVW-9 in 2001 as they prepared for the war in Afghanistan. In January 2002, Phillips spent about a month...
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