CECILY TYNAN, Action News weeknight meteorologist, joined WPVI-TV/6ABC as the weekend weather anchor and a general assignment reporter in October, 1995. She came to WPVI from KTNV in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she worked as a weather and news anchor for "Good Morning Las Vegas."
Prior to that, she was the weekend weather anchor and a general assignment reporter for WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia. Originally from Connecticut, Ms. Tynan double majored in Journalism and Politics and graduated magna cum laude from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. She also completed meteorology courses and received her seal of approval from the American Meteorological Society.
Her broadcast awards and honors include "Best On-Air Talent," Las Vegas Electronic Media Awards; and "Best Weathercaster," Las Vegas Review Journal. She was also named "Best Weathercaster" and "Best Weathervane" in the Philadelphia Weekly and Philadelphia Magazine, respectively.
Ms. Tynan is a four-time sub-3 hour marathoner, former world-class professional duathlete and a top ten age group finisher at the 2003 Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii. Married in April, 2005, she has recently scaled back her competitions to local charity races to raise money for worthy charities in the Delaware Valley.
She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Brandywine River Conservancy.
Cecily is married and has a son and daughter.
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8:44 AM, 12/27/09
Erin O'Hearn
Erin O'Hearn joined the Action News Team as a general assignment reporter in January of 2006. Before arriving in Philadelphia, she worked for 6abc's sister station, WTVD, the ABC owned station in Durham, North Carolina. There, she covered everything from breaking news to UNC pep rallies, to hurricanes ripping through the Tar Heel State.
Visit Erin on Facebook! Erin also has a strong background covering politics, as she began her broadcasting career at Capital News 9 in her hometown of Albany, New York. One of her most memorable experiences, while in New York, was an exclusive live interview with Governor George Pataki on the scene of a terrible Cargo-ship accident at the Port of Albany.Before diving into news, Erin spent time producing episodes of an MTV documentary called "True Life". While working for MTV, Erin spent most of her time in New York City, but also traveled all over the country, following teens and young adults as they grappled with issues like bi-polar disorder and drug addiction.Erin graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor in Science. She was a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority and the Ivory Tower Honor Society. Erin loves to travel, read, workout and spend time with her family. The New York native is glad to be back in the Northeast and is thrilled to call Philadelphia home.
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8:46 AM, 12/27/09
Ali Gorman, R.N.
Ali Gorman joined Action News in March 2008 as the health & medical reporter.
Ali grew up in South Jersey and graduated from Eastern High School in Voorhees, New Jersey. She then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Georgetown University.
Ali worked as a registered nurse for several years and served as a Nurse Corps officer in the U.S. Navy before going back to school to earn her master's degree at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.
Before returning to work for her hometown station, Ali was a reporter in Jacksonville, Florida where she covered everything from wildfires to death penalty court proceedings to the discovery of a blood test that may be able predict Alzheimer's Disease. Ali's journalism career also included a stop in Lansing, Michigan.
When Ali is not reporting on the latest medical news, she enjoys spending time with her friends and family, working out and taking trips to the shore.
KATHERINE SCOTT joined the Action News team in June 2009. Before arriving in Philadelphia, Katherine worked for News 12 The Bronx and Brooklyn. Over her four years in New York she covered hundreds of different stories. She traveled to Washington, D.C. for President Obama's inauguration; covered Opening Day at the Yankee's new stadium; followed a family to Oklahoma City for a custody dispute; and was there after the Bronx fire that killed ten people - nine of them children - that captured the attention of people around the world.
A New Jersey native, Katherine graduated from Harvard University in 2003 with a B.A. in Anthropology.
At Harvard, Katherine was the captain of the Varsity Field Hockey Team. While not at work, Katherine enjoys spending time with her husband, family, and friends, going for runs, and reading.
Melissa Magee is thrilled to join WPVI from WNYW in New York, where she presented the weather for the station's midday newscast. Melissa also anchored the weather for the "Good Day New York" morning show, as well as the evening newscasts. In addition to her weather responsibilities, Melissa served as a feature reporter and created and produced original digital content for the station's web site.
Prior to WNYW, Melissa made her Keystone State debut at AccuWeather (State College, Pa), providing international, national and regional forecasts. Through AccuWeather, she also appeared daily on Bloomberg Television's national morning show. Melissa first honed her weather skills at a CBS/Fox affiliate in Bakersfield, CA. She started out as a weekend anchor/reporter/weather personality. It was during her time on the weekends that Melissa developed a passion for the weather. Upon her promotion to Noon Anchor at KBAK-TV, Melissa continued to expand her weather duties, eventually becoming one of the station's primary weather anchors.
While born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Melissa is quick to point out that her early career was not entirely illuminated by her home state's golden glow, as she did spend a year - and a long winter - at KDUH-TV in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. There, she wrote, shot, produced and edited her own on-air material.
Melissa graduated from UCLA with a BA in English and a minor in French. She also spent a summer abroad studying in Paris and becoming fluent in French. Melissa has completed Mississippi State University's atmospheric sciences and geosciences classes and will officially receive a certificate in Broadcast Meteorology in 2010.
Melissa is committed to making a distinctive and lasting connection with her audience. Whether she's out in the field or in-studio, Melissa enjoys gathering facts, and in turn, communicating that valuable information to those who need it the most.
In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, working out, dancing and spending time with family and friends.
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8:50 AM, 12/27/09
Tamala Edwards
TAMALA EDWARDS joined WPVI-TV/Channel 6 in January of 2005.
Visit Tamala on Facebook! Tamala Edwards anchors the morning edition of Action News from 5 to 7 am. She has also been part in a number of other Action News hallmark events, anchoring coverage of the Live Eight concert, co-moderating a debate with the Democratic mayoral candidates and participating in the 6ABC gala introduction of the King Tut exhibit at the Franklin Institute. For the past few years, Edwards and her co-anchor Matt O'Donnell have saluted the top high school graduates in Best of the Class and kicked off the start of the season at the Philadelphia Zoo with a special broadcast. Along with anchoring, Edwards reports for Action News, specializing in education and political stories.Tamala was the anchor of ABC's World News Now, and World News This Morning. Prior to joining World News Now, she was an ABC News correspondent based in the network's Washington, D.C., bureau covering education, religion and culture for World News Tonight and other ABC News programs. She was an embedded reporter during the Iraq War, moving with the Air Force from Kuwait to Nasiriyah, Iraq. She joined ABC News as a White House correspondent in August 2001.Before coming to ABC, Edwards was a staff writer at TIME Magazine. During the 2000 presidential election, she covered Vice President Al Gore's campaign and former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. She was a panelist in the Apollo Theatre debate in New York between Gore and Bradley, and Edwards also participated in MTV's Choose or Lose broadcasts.Ms. Edwards previously served as a correspondent in the Washington bureau of Time from 1995-1997, where she covered Bob Dole's presidential campaign politics, society, and breaking news. Before coming to Washington in 1995, she worked for two years as a Time reporter in New York covering international news.Ms. Edwards has written on a diverse number of topics including the cover story, "Who Needs a Husband?" on the changing dynamics around love and marriage. She has also written about House and Senate races, the Reform Party, the fight over school funding in Vermont, and other highly charged political issues. She has covered the business boom of college preparation, the growing importance of women in philanthropy, the Supreme Court case of student-to-student sexual harassment and the public debate over books on topics like modesty, race and mental illness. She has written dispatches from the presidential campaign trail and articles on the passage of the historic balanced budget and tax-cut bill, the stripping of home rule from the District of Columbia, and an account of former Chinese first lady Madame Chang's return to Washington.While in New York at Time International from 1993-1995, she covered global issues from the reclamation of an ancient Jewish text in Bosnia to the international expansion of MTV News to an international art-world ruckus over a group of Canadian prehistoric figurines.The Education Writers Association awarded Ms. Edwards first prize for her contribution to Time's 1999 cover story, "What Makes a Good School." In its August 2000 issue, Vogue magazine named her a journalist for "The Next Establishment," and in November 2000, she was featured in Folio magazine's "30 Under 30" list.Born in Georgia and raised in Texas, Edwards graduated from Stanford University with an honors Bachelor of Arts degree in international relations.Edwards has fallen in love with the Delaware Valley, with its history, architecture, natural beauty, culture, food and warm people. She enjoys community service, especially events related to children and the elderly. In her free time, she likes to read, hike, cook and catch up on movies. She lives in Mount Airy with her husband and pets.
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9:58 AM, 12/27/09
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Cecily Tynan
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Prior to that, she was the weekend weather anchor and a general assignment reporter for WDBJ in Roanoke, Virginia. Originally from Connecticut, Ms. Tynan double majored in Journalism and Politics and graduated magna cum laude from Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. She also completed meteorology courses and received her seal of approval from the American Meteorological Society.
Her broadcast awards and honors include "Best On-Air Talent," Las Vegas Electronic Media Awards; and "Best Weathercaster," Las Vegas Review Journal. She was also named "Best Weathercaster" and "Best Weathervane" in the Philadelphia Weekly and Philadelphia Magazine, respectively.
Ms. Tynan is a four-time sub-3 hour marathoner, former world-class professional duathlete and a top ten age group finisher at the 2003 Ironman World Championships in Kona, Hawaii. Married in April, 2005, she has recently scaled back her competitions to local charity races to raise money for worthy charities in the Delaware Valley.
She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Brandywine River Conservancy.
Cecily is married and has a son and daughter.
Erin O'Hearn
Ali Gorman, R.N.
Ali grew up in South Jersey and graduated from Eastern High School in Voorhees, New Jersey. She then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Georgetown University.
Ali worked as a registered nurse for several years and served as a Nurse Corps officer in the U.S. Navy before going back to school to earn her master's degree at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism.
Before returning to work for her hometown station, Ali was a reporter in Jacksonville, Florida where she covered everything from wildfires to death penalty court proceedings to the discovery of a blood test that may be able predict Alzheimer's Disease. Ali's journalism career also included a stop in Lansing, Michigan.
When Ali is not reporting on the latest medical news, she enjoys spending time with her friends and family, working out and taking trips to the shore.
Katherine Scott
A New Jersey native, Katherine graduated from Harvard University in 2003 with a B.A. in Anthropology.
At Harvard, Katherine was the captain of the Varsity Field Hockey Team. While not at work, Katherine enjoys spending time with her husband, family, and friends, going for runs, and reading.
Melissa Magee
Prior to WNYW, Melissa made her Keystone State debut at AccuWeather (State College, Pa), providing international, national and regional forecasts. Through AccuWeather, she also appeared daily on Bloomberg Television's national morning show. Melissa first honed her weather skills at a CBS/Fox affiliate in Bakersfield, CA. She started out as a weekend anchor/reporter/weather personality. It was during her time on the weekends that Melissa developed a passion for the weather. Upon her promotion to Noon Anchor at KBAK-TV, Melissa continued to expand her weather duties, eventually becoming one of the station's primary weather anchors.
While born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Melissa is quick to point out that her early career was not entirely illuminated by her home state's golden glow, as she did spend a year - and a long winter - at KDUH-TV in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. There, she wrote, shot, produced and edited her own on-air material.
Melissa graduated from UCLA with a BA in English and a minor in French. She also spent a summer abroad studying in Paris and becoming fluent in French. Melissa has completed Mississippi State University's atmospheric sciences and geosciences classes and will officially receive a certificate in Broadcast Meteorology in 2010.
Melissa is committed to making a distinctive and lasting connection with her audience. Whether she's out in the field or in-studio, Melissa enjoys gathering facts, and in turn, communicating that valuable information to those who need it the most.
In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, working out, dancing and spending time with family and friends.
Tamala Edwards
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