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About Lisa Thomas-Laury
- Lisa Thomas-Laury (born July 19, 1954) is a retired news presenter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Ms.
- Thomas-Laury started at WPVI-TV in Philadelphia on February 20, 1978, as noon co-anchor and reporter.
- In 1983, she was promoted to the 5 p.m.
- newscast, co-anchoring it until 2003 with now-retired news anchor Marc Howard.
- At the same time, she frequently substituted for Jim Gardner when he was unable to anchor the 6 and 11 p.m.
- newscasts.
- She also has done the monthly Fast Forward series, a show geared toward teenagers; it is currently hosted by Rick Williams.
- She has taken over the African-American-oriented, locally produced Visions program (now named New Visions) from Vernon Odom. Thomas-Laury is also theorized to have been the inspiration for the character "Maria" from the Guess Who? board game.
- Although she denies this rumor, she has admitted to sitting as a model for the illustrator of the popular game.
- The connection, she claims, is purely coincidental. Thomas-Laury is one of a few African American women to anchor in the Philadelphia market, a group that currently includes WPVI anchor Tamala Edwards, former WCAU anchor Renee Chenault-Fattah, KYW anchor Natasha Brown, and WTXF anchor Joyce Evans. She retired on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.
- In 2017, she wrote a memoir is titled: "On Camera and Off, When the News is Good and When it's Not".
- She spent most of 2017 on a regional book tour.
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