Nationality American Name Stephanie Sy Notable credits News | Occupation Journalist Role News anchor | |
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Born January 16, 1977 (age 47) ( 1977-01-16 ) Alma mater University of Pennsylvania Profiles | ||
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Stephanie Sy (born January 16, 1977) is an American television news anchor and reporter employed by Al Jazeera America.
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Education and career
Sy graduated from the University of Pennsylvania cum laude with a double major in international relations and environmental studies in 1999. From August 1999 to 2001 she was a reporter and fill-in anchor for WBTW in Florence, South Carolina. She joined WTKR in September 2001 as a military reporter. Her reporting from Iraq while embedded in 2003 during the Iraq War led to her hiring by ABC News in the same 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. From 2012 to 2013, she was senior editor and correspondent at Everyday Health. Sy joined Al Jazeera America in 2013 where she currently co-anchors the 9pm newscast and conducts occasional interviews for Talk to Al Jazeera. She currently anchors the two hour morning program Your World This Morning at 7 AM and the 9:30 AM half hour weekday morning newscast.
Personal life
Sy was born and raised in southern California. She has been married since April 2009 and has one daughter.