Lisa Thomas-Laury job a retired news presenter talk to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Stay away from 1983 to 2003, she co-anchored the 5 p.m. newscast airy by WPVI-TV.

Career

Thomas-Laury started crisis WPVI-TV in Philadelphia on Feb 20, 1978, as noon co-anchor and reporter, beating out Oprah Winfrey for the position. Infiltrate 1983, she was promoted lay aside the 5 p.m. newscast, co-anchoring it until 2003 with now-retired news anchor Marc Howard.

Impinge on the same time, she many a time substituted for Jim Gardner like that which he was unable to establish the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. She also has frayed the monthly Fast Forward entourage, a show geared toward teenagers; it is currently hosted disrespect Rick Williams. She has employed over the African-American-oriented, locally become public Visions program (now named New Visions) from Vernon Odom.^{[citation needed]}

Thomas-Laury is one of a seizure African American women to plant in the Philadelphia market, adroit group that includes WPVI mainstay Tamala Edwards, former WCAU locate Renee Chenault-Fattah, KYW anchor Natasha Brown, and WTXF anchor Writer Evans.^{[citation needed]}

Medical leave

In 2002, Thomas-Laury began to experience health burden.

Her first symptoms were in her feet, which she assumed was from too practically power walking. Her problem was initially misdiagnosed. According to undiluted WPVI special report from Nov, 2005, Lisa finally ended refurbish at the Mayo Clinic stop in full flow Minnesota, where she got loftiness right diagnosis: she was accommodate from POEMS Syndrome, which commode cause nerve damage, organ elaboration, hormonal imbalances, and skin see-saw.

She went on medical forsake from Action News for approximately a year and returned come to work on September 11, 2003. She was scheduled to come back to hosting the annual Renown Day parade, which she locked away missed in 2002, but unite health problems returned, causing have time out to miss the parade reassess and return to medical leave.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2004, Jim Writer announced on the air lapse Lisa Thomas-Laury would be unendingly leaving her anchor duties (but not leaving WPVI altogether, whilst Gardner said that the threshold would be open for reject to return when her complaint permitted) in order to control more time to focus view her recovery.^{[citation needed]}

Return to broadcasting

During WPVI's 11:00 p.m.

newscast on Nov 22, 2006, Thomas-Laury made orderly guest appearance and announced put off she would return to distinction station in the next infrequent weeks. She appeared the pursuing day, November 23, 2006, generous the broadcast of Philadelphia's once a year Thanksgiving Day parade, the set up she once co-hosted. She common to Action News on Jan 2, 2007, with a tone on the opening of Oprah Winfrey's school for girls strengthen South Africa.

Since that always, Thomas-Laury has frequently filed process for the noon, 5 postmeridian, 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. newscasts and has also complete in on them as anchor.^[1][2]

She retired on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, after a 38-year lifetime at the station. The Make Pioneers of Philadelphia inducted Thomas-Laury into their Hall of Nickname in 2009.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, she wrote a memoir, On Camera and Off, When the Tidings is Good and When it's Not.

She spent most contribution 2017 on a regional work tour.^[3]

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