Phil Jones
Phil Jones was a reporter-correspondent for CBS News for more than three decades, reporting from Vietnam battlefields, covering presidential campaigns, the Watergate investigation, the Nixon resignation and the impeachment trial of President Clinton. He was considered the dean of broadcast correspondents reporting on Congress when he covered that beat from 1977-1989.
Jones grew up in Fairmount, Indiana. He studied Radio-TV at Indiana University. Legendary IU Journalism Professor Richard Yoakam picked Jones and fellow student Dick Enberg as the first broadcast play-by-play team for the new IU Sports Network broadcasts.
His first full-time news job was at WTHI-TV in Terre Haute, Indiana. Jones later moved to WCCO-TV in Minneapolis for seven years before joining CBS at its Atlanta bureau.
Jones was known as one of the "Cronkite Kids," a group of CBS correspondents who were favored by anchorman Walter Cronkite. Jones first traveled to Vietnam to cover that war for CBS in 1969 and continued reporting on the conflict until it ended in 1975. He retired from CBS in 2001. Phil Jones died in August, 2024, at the age of 87.
Phil Jones was inducted into the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2008.
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Updated August 2024
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Video bio of Phil Jones, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2008. Producer: Howard Caldwell; |
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