Stephen Stock is an Award-winning American Investigative reporter currently working for NBC Bay Area. He has helped establish, build and lead investigative teams in Orlando, Miami, and San Francisco’s TV markets.
Stephen Stock Biography
Stephen Stock is an Award-winning American Investigative reporter currently working for NBC Bay Area. He has helped establish, build and lead investigative teams in Orlando, Miami, and San Francisco’s TV markets. Only a couple of weeks after landing in the Bay Area, Stephen Stock had California’s Governor and State Assembly scrambling to address an environmental issue he uncovered, the unregulated practice of widespread hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, for oil in California. It is a practice that has become widespread but was little known until Stock uncovered it.
Now lawmakers and regulators in Sacramento have moved to address the issues Stock uncovered. A little more than a year after Stephen exposed the rise in the number of close calls between airplanes in the skies over the Bay Area and the country the National Transportation Safety Board released new safety recommendations to the FAA to address the issues raised in the report.
Stock has also uncovered the still little regulated practice of having children as young as eight years old work in the fields of America, from California’s Central Valley to North Carolina’s tobacco road. He’s also exposed the numbers of people voting in California the name of dead residents, a rise in the number of high-quality fake IDs in the US which is now creating a homeland security threat, campaign finance ties between Silicon Valley and the halls of political power, and questionable federal stimulus spending.
Prior to working in the Bay Area, Stephen served as an investigative reporter for CBS4 in Miami where his work changed policies, laws, and lives. His investigative work prompted hearings by the U.S. Congress and changed the way the state of Florida tracks and monitors children in daycares. While at CBS4, he uncovered troubles in America’s aviation security systems, violence in local schools, dozens of troubled bridges in South Florida, allegations of misuse of power in Miami Beach, double-dipping at Miami’s police department, FEMA storm unpreparedness, and questionable use of federal tax dollars through the US Farm Bill.
Stephen also served as the lead investigative reporter for WESH-TV2, the NBC affiliate in Orlando where he uncovered tax fraud by Florida prison inmates, uncovered the reason hundreds of Ford trucks and heavy vehicles mysteriously burst into flames, exposed shoddy building practices and inspections in Central Florida’s home building industry and exposed questionable spending by a prominent State Senator from Orlando.
Stock’s investigative work has won several prestigious national awards. He served as a lead investigative reporter on WESH-TV2’s 20-part series, “Building Homes: Building Problems,” which examined the home building industry in Central Florida. That work earned Stock and WESH-TV2 News a George Foster Peabody Award. He also covered the space shuttle program for NBC and was part of the team of reporters who won a Columbia Alfred I. DuPont Silver Baton for coverage of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. He also led the team at NBC Bay Area which won a National Society of Professional Journalist Sigma Delta Chi Award and a National Emmy nomination for their coverage of the crash of Asian Flight 214 at San Francisco International Airport.
His work garnered two regional Associated Press awards including a Mark Twain award, two different citations by Florida’s Associated Press as Best Investigative Report, an Individual Achievement honor, and two different Best in TV awards.
He’s also won three Edward R Murrow Awards, including one for his work exposing the practice of having children work in the fields of American agriculture and one for his work documenting the number of close calls between airplanes in the air and on the ground in South Florida.
Stock also garnered nine local Emmy Awards from the Northern California Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS). He’s also won another nine Suncoast Regional NATAS Emmy Awards for his investigations into cargo theft in the United States, medical mistakes where patients were billed by doctors anyway, and political blackmail involving strip clubs in Miami Beach. In all, he’s won 18 individual and team regional Emmy Awards.
Stock has been named an Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg in 2004. He’s taught computer-assisted and investigative journalism at Poynter, IRE, NABJ/NAHJ, SPJ. He has also taught in newsrooms and universities around the country. He’s twice been a finalist for the IRE award, given by the nation’s prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors organization.
Before joining NBC Bay Area, Stock has worked in Greenville, South Carolina, as Anderson Bureau Chief and Investigative Reporter. He has also worked in Wilmington, North Carolina as the Senior Investigative Reporter and anchor. In addition, he has worked in Roanoke, Virginia, where he got his start in commercial television.
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Stephen Stock Age
Details about his age are currently unavailable however, updates will be out.
Stephen Stock Family
He has managed to keep information about his family from the limelight. He barely discusses anything to do with his parents or siblings despite being very active on social media.
Stephen Stock Wife
He is the husband of Lady Lynn. The couple met at UNC-Chapel Hill where they fell in love with each other and with Tar Heel basketball and everything else Carolina Blue. Lynn also is a journalist serving as an editor in Silicon Valley.
Stephen Stock Children
They have one super-smart son, Michael. He followed in his parents’ footsteps as an Honors College student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After which he became a sports data analyst. Michael also served as an officer on the Marching Tar Heel band and as a leader of the Coral Gables High School Band. He makes his dad look amateurish with his video and editing technology skills.
Stephen Stock Height
He stands at an average stature and a moderate body weight. Actual details about his body measurements will be out.
Stephen Stock Salary
There is no doubt that Stock earns quite a good salary as an investigative reporter for NBC Bay Area. He ought to be receiving an average salary of about $120k annually. Actual details in regards to his salary will be available.
Stephen Stock Net Worth
He has accumulated quite a decent fortune throughout his successful career as a journalist. He has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
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