Monica Malpass (born April 28, 1961 in High Point, North Carolina [1]) is an American journalist and former television anchor for WPVI Action News in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] She co-anchored the WPVI 5 p.m. weekday newscast and hosted the station's political talk show, Inside Story. [2]
Malpass was born on April 28, 1961. [3] [4] She received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1983 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [2] She won a Rotary scholarship to the University of Puerto Rico in 1984. [2]
Malpass began her career as a reporter for the student-run newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. [2] She then worked as a news anchor and reporter for WCHL-AM in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; a reporter for WFMY-TV, in Greensboro, North Carolina; and a reporter and anchor at WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. [2]
Malpass joined WPVI (Channel 6), the local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia, in January 1988. [2] She initially anchored the morning newscasts.
Malpass obtained a master's degree in political science from Villanova University in 1999. [2] She has also completed the Inside Washington program at the Brookings Institution and was a recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Neumann College in Pennsylvania. [2]
Malpass announced on the 5 p.m. newscast that she was pregnant with twins on January 11, 2010. [2] She gave birth to twin boys. [3] Malpass has another son with her former husband, David Cutler. [3]
On May 22, 2019, Malpass disclosed that she was leaving WPVI after 31 years. It was not disclosed where she was going. [5]