Tamala Edwards
| Tamala Edwards | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Tamala Monique Edwards April 7, 1971 Georgia, U.S. |
| Ethnicity | African American |
| Education | B.A., Stanford University |
| Years active | 1993 - present |
| Title | Channel 6 Action News Anchor |
| Website | |
| http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/bio?section=resources/inside_station/newsteam&id=5771852 Channel 6 Action News Bio | |
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. Ms. Edwards gave birth to another boy, Massimo John Edwards Lugrine, on September 11, 2012.[1]
Her parents are Edith and Redick Edwards, who live in Houston, Texas.
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References
- ↑ WPVI-TV announcement of Edwards' giving birth Retrieved 2012-09-30