| Tamala Edwards | |
|---|---|
| Born | Tamala Monique Edwards April 7, 1971 Georgia, U.S. |
| Education | B.A., Stanford University |
| Title | Channel 6 Action News Anchor |
| Ethnicity | African American |
| Channel 6 Action News Bio Official website | |
Tamala Monique Edwards (born April 7, 1971) is an American television news anchor and reporter.
She began her journalism career as a correspondent for Time magazine in 1993, eventually working in the Washington, D.C. bureau. In August 2001, she came to work for ABC News as a White House correspondent, later moving on to be a Washington D.C.-based general correspondent appearing on World News Tonight and Good Morning America.
Edwards also anchored two ABC News newscasts, World News Now and World News This Morning and discovered a bit of a cult following as several other World News Now anchors have.
In 2005, she moved to ABC owned and operated station WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she currently is the weekday morning Action News anchor and a feature reporter.
Edwards married Rocco Lugrine, a pastry chef of Le Bec Fin, on September 19, 2006. They became first-time parents on August 31, 2009, when Tamala gave birth to a boy, Rocco Alexander Edwards Lugrine.
Her parents are Edith and Redick Edwards, who live in Houston, Texas.