Stephanie Sy (born January 16, 1977) is an American television news anchor and reporter for the ''

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''.

Youth and education

Sy, who is of Chinese heritage, was born and raised in southern California. She graduated from the

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with a double

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and

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in 1999.

Career

Early career and ABC

From August 1999 to 2001, Sy was a reporter and fill-in anchor for

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. In September 2001, she joined WTKR in

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, as a military reporter. Her reporting from

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while embedded in 2003 during the

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led to her hiring by

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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 ''

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''.

Post-ABC

From 2012 to 2013, Sy was senior editor and correspondent at Everyday Health. In 2013, she joined

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, where she anchored various newscasts, primarily the weekday morning news, and conducted occasional interviews for ''Talk to Al Jazeera'' until the network's closure in 2016. Later in 2016, she was a freelance reporter for

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, primarily doing interviews. Starting around November 2017, she was also a freelancer anchor for

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and

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. She filled in for Maggie Lake on

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. She continued to freelance for Yahoo News and also for

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's online streaming service.

''PBS Newshour''

While working as a freelance journalist, Sy contributed to the '' PBS NewsHour Weekend''. In 2019, she was named anchor for '' PBS NewsHour West'', based at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism of

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in Phoenix, and also correspondent for the ''PBS NewsHour''.

Personal life

Sy is married to David Jensen Ariosto, a supervising producer for

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's ''

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''. They married on June 17, 2017. Both were previously married. Sy has a daughter from her previous marriage. Sy is a member of the

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, a

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organization committed to international cooperation based in

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References

External links

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Interview on reporting from China for ABC News
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