Award winning investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan currently is on the air at Boston's NBC affiliate, where she's broken big stories for the past 22 years. Along with her 24 EMMYs, Hank has won dozens of other regional, national and international honors for her hard-hitting investigations.

Her first encounter with publishing came in 1969, when she and her best friend got summer jobs as proofreaders, and wound up reading the entire Indiana Code of Laws out loud. Including punctuation.

Since then, she's been a radio reporter, a legislative aide in the United States Senate, and in a two-year stint in Rolling Stone Magazine's Washington Bureau, worked on the political column "Capitol Chatter" and organized presidential campaign coverage for Hunter S. Thompson. She began her TV career in 1975, anchoring and reporting the news for TV stations in Indianapolis and then Atlanta.