Draft:Phil Williams (Journalist)

Phil Williams is an American journalist. Since 1998, he has been the chief investigative reporter at the news station WTVF in Nashville, Tennessee. Prior to his position at the station, he worked at The Tennessean, where he had been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 along with his colleagues, and WKRN-TV, where he contributed to an extended investigation of the Tennessee General Assembly that culminated in the Peabody Award-winning documentary Under the Influence. He has won multiple Peabody awards, duPoint-Columbia University awards , and the IRE Medal , and is also the first TV journalist to receive the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting.