Stephanie Sy

PBS NewsHour; Former Carnegie Council Host, Ethics Matter

Stephanie Sy is a PBS NewsHour correspondent and serves as anchor of PBS NewsHour West.

Sy was previously the host of Carnegie Council's Ethics Matter interview series, an anchor and national correspondent for Yahoo News, and a news anchor for the now-defunct Al Jazeera America.

Sy won a 2014 Gracie Award for her interview ""Talk to Al Jazeera: Gloria Steinem."" Prior to joining Al Jazeera, Sy was a foreign and domestic correspondent for ABC News from 2003 to 2011. As ABC's Asia correspondent based in Beijing, Sy was awarded the Overseas Press Club's David Kaplan Award for Spot News coverage for her stories on the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Her reports focused largely on the poorly constructed schools that led to the deaths of thousands of children. Sy's China earthquake coverage was also nominated for a national Emmy. Sy won a Business Emmy for ""World News with Charles Gibson: Global Food Crisis"" during her time in China. Sy was also based in London and New York for ABC, covering stories including the war in Iraq, the London terror attacks, the Times Square bombing attempt, the death of Pope John Paul II, and three Olympic Games. As a local military reporter based in Norfolk, Virginia, Sy covered the U.S. invasion of Iraq, winning an Associated Press award for her coverage. She got her start in broadcast reporting at WBTW in Florence, South Carolina.

Featured Work

Wendell Wallach at Carnegie Council

SEP 26, 2016 Podcast

The Pros, Cons, and Ethical Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence

From driverless cars to lethal autonomous weapons, artificial intelligence will soon confront societies with new and complex ethical challenges. What's more, by 2034, 47 percent of U....

JUN 9, 2016 Podcast

Global Ethics Forum Preview: A Conversation with Sarah Chayes on Corruption and Global Security

Next time on Global Ethics Forum, Carnegie Endowment's Sarah Chayes discusses corruption in Nigeria, Afghanistan, Egypt, and beyond. In this excerpt, Chayes, the author of "...

MAY 4, 2016 Podcast

Us and Them? Bridget Anderson on Migrants and Nation-States

Underlying people's economic fears about migrants taking their jobs are much deeper anxieties about nationality, culture, and race, says Bridget Anderson, professor of migration and ...

APR 22, 2016 Podcast

New Paradigms for Refugee Camps and for Humanitarian Aid Itself

Kilian Kleinschmidt describes how he, together with the refugees themselves, transformed the Zaatari refugee camp from what the media called a "hellhole of humanitarian aid" ...

APR 15, 2016 Podcast

A Conversation with Krista Tippett on Becoming Wise

What does it mean to be human, and how do we want to live? "We possess intelligence. We possess consciousness. And we have this capacity ...

MAR 4, 2016 Podcast

A Conversation with Sarah Chayes on Corruption and Global Security

Around the world from Afghanistan to Nigeria, systemic corruption is fueling instability, declares Sarah Chayes in this electrifying conversation. And the United States and other ...

OCT 7, 2015 Podcast

Karenna Gore on Faith Communities and the Environment

Karenna Gore, daughter of Al Gore and director of the Center for Earth Ethics, discusses how faith communities (including indigenous peoples) are rallying to combat ...

MAY 29, 2015 Podcast

Ethics in U.S. Foreign Policy: Spymaster Jack Devine on the CIA

"The thing that attracted me to the Agency was a sense of mission," says 32-year CIA veteran Jack Devine. In this discussion he talks candidly ...