Phillip A. Jones died Nov. 10, 2025, at the age of 87. He received his degree in broadcast journalism and philosophy and began a broadcast career at WLWI-TV13, now WTHR, while serving in the U.S. Army. Jones' most notable work received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 1970 for an hour-long documentary produced by radio station WJR on race relations with the Detroit Police Department after the Detroit riot. He also received Associated Press and Detroit Press Club Foundation honors for coverage of the 1967 riot and police and Black Panther confrontations. In 1971, Jones became broadcast news relations manager for Michigan Bell (later to become Ameritech), retiring in 1994 as director of media relations. For more than 20 years, he taught courses in public relations, broadcast news writing, broadcast performance, and audio production as a part-time instructor at Wayne State University in Detroit.