Phil Shuman

KTTV FOX 11 (myfoxla.com) - Phil Shuman is an Emmy award winning Los Angeles TV newsman, with more than 20 years of experience covering Southern California and the country. Since February 2002 Phil has worked for KTTV FOX 11 in Los Angeles, where he is an investigative reporter for the "Fox 11 Investigates " unit as well as a substitute anchor for Fox 11 News at Ten.

Phil also hosts LA Cityview Channel 35's "Your Council District Close-Up", and "LA in Focus" programs, on Los Angeles City owned cable television.

Before joining Fox, Phil was an L.A. based correspondent for the nationally syndicated news magazine EXTRA. Phil joined EXTRA in 1996. One of his first assignments was to cover the Bosnian conflict with Geraldo Rivera, and since then has covered every major national news story from the OJ Simpson civil trial to the TWA flight 800 mystery to the Jon Benet Ramsey murder to the JFK Jr. plane crash to the Columbine massacre to the Chandra Levy mystery to the Bonnie Bakely murder, to the Michael Jackson trial, to name just a few.

Prior to EXTRA, Phil spent 13 years as a street reporter in Los Angeles, a respected and well-known part of KNBC-TV's top-rated 11 p.m. Channel 4 News "Nightside" newscast. Phil covered everything from the Olympics to the Rodney King Beating to the Los Angeles Riots to both trials of the LAPD officers charged in the King case to the Malibu fires to the Academy Awards to the OJ Simpson criminal case, where he was in the courtroom for the verdict. Many of his stories were picked up for use by national broadcasts, including The Today Show, NBC News at Sunrise, and CNBC. He regularly reported on the O.J. Simpson criminal trial for NBC Weekend Nightly News. Phil was also a regular contributor to the NBC News channel.

Phil has a B.A in Economics, and is a cum laude graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts. Phil is also an adjunct lecturer in the journalism department at the Annenberg School at USC, he’s a free lance contributor to the "Jewish Journal", and he’s hosted his own radio show on KABC AM 790 here in Los Angeles. In the past he’s been a substitute teacher in the Los Angeles public schools, a lecturer at a trade school called Los Angeles Broadcasters, an instructor on media relations during emergencies for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and has given countless talks on the role of the media -- and specifically TV news -- to police and sheriff's academies, as well as various schools, He’s a member of the Studio City Beautification Association and also the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles, where he has participated in their program as a "Big Brother" to "Rey" since 2003.

His first job was as a reporter, anchor and sportscaster at KFDX in Wichita Falls, Texas, an NBC affiliate, from 1979 until 1981. Phil moved on to KWTV, the CBS affiliate in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where he worked from 1981 to 1983, when he moved to Los Angeles.