Bonnie Phillips
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Bonnie Phillips has worked in the news industry for more than 30 years. A graduate of the University of Rhode Island, she started her career at The North Kingstown Standard-Times. From there, she worked at The Woonsocket Call, the Lynn (Mass.) Daily Item, and The Middletown (Conn.) Press.
She spent most of her career—19 years—as an editor at the Hartford Courant. She was part of the Courant newsroom team that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting and was also part of the team that were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for the coverage of the Sandy Hook school shootings. She left the Courant in 2016 and worked as the deputy editor of the Connecticut Health Investigative Team, a nonprofit news site.
