Phil Lipof has officially joined New England Cable News and NBC Boston as an anchor and reporter.
Phil Lipof has officially joined New England Cable News and NBC Boston as an anchor and reporter.
The announcement comes three months after Phil chose to leave his position as 5pm anchor and evening reporter at WCVB ABC 5, and three months after we told you he was joining necn/NBC Boston.
“Phil is an extraordinarily talented journalist with a keen ability to connect with viewers,” said Kenny Plotnik, Vice President of News, necn. “Working with Phil in New York City was a great experience and I look forward to teaming up with him again.”
Plotnik was Phil's boss and the news director that hired him at WABC-TV 7 in New York City.
Before coming home to Boston to work at WCVB in 2013, Phil spent 7 years as the weekend morning anchor and a reporter at WABC, the flagship station of the ABC television network.
Prior to WABC, Phil spent over five years at WHDH as a reporter and anchor. He has also been an anchor and reporter at WFOR-TV in Miami, FL; WRNN-TV in Kingston, NY; and KIDK-TV in Jackson, WY.
Phil began his journalism career at WCVB interning with Chet Curtis and Natalie Jacobson, and considers Curtis his inspiration and mentor.
Phil has covered some of the major stories of the decade so far in his career. In 2013, he returned home to Boston to report on the Marathon bombings, braved 80 mile per hour winds during "Superstorm Sandy" and, less than a year later, reported from the massive boardwalk fire in the same spot. He covered the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina, traveled to Israel after Sept. 11 for a special series on terrorism and to Germany to speak with wounded troops.
Phil’s roots in Boston run deep with his mother and 4 siblings still living in the area. His wife (and former co-anchor at WHDH) Juli is from Haverhill. His father, brother and sister have served on the Board of Alderman in Newton. His mother, now retired, was one of the first women in the world to become a Rabbi serving on a pulpit in Brookline.
A native of Newton, Phil is a 1995 graduate of Syracuse University where he studied speech communication and writing.
Phil will begin appearing on necn's evening newscasts later this week.
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