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Phillip Ewing is an American Journalist and Blogger, Since 2007 he has been on the staff of Navy Times, covering surface warfare, NAVSEA, the Secretary of the Navy and other topics. Ewing has reported from more than a dozen ships at sea, the Pentagon, the Capitol, the White House, Djibouti, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. He has appeared on National Public Radio, XM Satellite Radio and on local TV in Washington, D.C. In 2009 he helped start the newspaper's first blog, Scoop Deck.

Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ewing is a 2001 graduate of Walnut Hills High School, where his journalism career began at the school newspaper, the Chatterbox. As editor in his senior year, Ewing fought the administration when it suspended publication of the newspaper over what it considered a disrespectful editorial cartoon. After a six-day standoff, school officials agreed to return control of the Chatterbox.

Ewing attended the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, graduating in 2005. While at OU he was a reporter, photographer and editor for the campus newspaper, The Post, eventually becoming its managing editor. In 2006, he earned a master’s degree in journalism from the Public Affairs Reporting Program at the University of Illinois at Springfield. During his time in Springfield, Ewing reported on the 2006 legislative session of the Illinois Legislature as a Statehouse correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.