Mark Phillips

Mark Phillips is a Canadian television journalist, and currently, the Senior Foreign Correspondent, based in London (for more than 2 decades), working for CBS News.

CBC News Phillips began his television journalism career, in the mid-1970s, by joining CBC News beginning as the parliamentary correspondent in Ottawa. In the late 1970s, Phillips moved up to the position of reporter, based in the network's London bureau.

CBS News After leaving CBC News in 1982, Phillips moved to the United States, and joined CBS News as a reporter for the network's London bureau and covered events throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. That same year, Phillips became the 1st non-British correspondent to report from the Falkland Islands during the British military's conflict in Argentina. along with others, including the 2014 Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association as well as a citation from the Society of Environmental Journalists for his work on climate change.

Personal life Phillips currently lives in London, England, with his wife and four children.