Tamala Edwards

Tamala Edwards
Born	Tamala Monique Edwards (1971-04-07) 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.

Her parents are Edith and Redick Edwards, who live in Houston, Texas.

External links

• ABC News bio
• 6ABC Action News bio
• New York Times wedding announcement
• Tamala Edwards is Expecting