Monica Malpass

Who is Monica Malpass?

Monica Malpass is an American journalist and television anchor for WPVI Action News in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She co-anchors the WPVI 5 p.m. weekday newscast and hosts the station's political talk show, Inside Story.

Monica Malpass was born on April 28, 1961. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1983 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She won a Rotary scholarship to the University of Puerto Rico in 1984.

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-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.

Malpass joined WPVI, the local ABC 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 2013.

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.