Background
Monica Malpass was born on April 28, 1961.
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Monica Malpass
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Villanova University.
Career
She co-anchors the WPVI 5 p.m. weekday newscast and hosts the station"s political talk show, Inside Story. She received a bachelor"s degree in journalism in 1983 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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.
She then worked as a news anchor and reporter for WCHL-Department of Administration and Management in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
A reporter for WFMY-television, in Greensboro, North Carolina. And a reporter and anchor at WXII-television in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Malpass joined WPVI (Channel 6), the local American Broadcasting Company affiliate in Philadelphia, in January 1988. She initially anchored the morning newscasts.
She remains at WPVI as the 5 p.m. co-anchor as of 2015.
Malpass obtained a master"s degree in political science from Villanova University in 1999. 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. Malpass announced on the 5 p.m. newscast that she was pregnant with twins on January 11, 2010.
She gave birth to twin boys, Hunter Jace Malpass and Zeke Jones Malpass, on Monday, April 12, 2010.
The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia inducted Malpass into their Hall of Fame in 2006.
