Stephanie Sy

Stephanie Sy (born January 16, 1977) is an American television news anchor and reporter for the PBS NewsHour. Youth and education Sy was born and raised in southern California. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania cum laude with a double major in international relations and environmental studies in 1999. Career Early career and ABC From August 1999 to 2001, Sy was a reporter and fill-in anchor for WBTW in Florence, South Carolina. In September 2001, she joined WTKR in Norfolk, Virginia, as a military reporter. Her reporting from Iraq while embedded in 2003 during the Iraq War led to her hiring by ABC News that year. 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. Sy was transferred to New York in 2009 and remained there until leaving the network in 2012. Other tasks at ABC included occasional fill-in anchoring on World News Now.