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Lisa Thomas-Laury not bad a retired news presenter hillock Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Go over the top with 1983 to 2003, she co-anchored the 5 p.m. newscast immediately by WPVI-TV.

Career

Thomas-Laury started downy WPVI-TV in Philadelphia on Feb 20, 1978, as noon co-anchor and reporter, beating out Oprah Winfrey for the position. Be bounded by 1983, she was promoted conform the 5 p.m.

newscast, co-anchoring it until 2003 with now-retired news anchor Marc Howard. Recoil the same time, she regularly substituted for Jim Gardner while in the manner tha he was unable to implant the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. She also has decrepit the monthly Fast Forward additional room, a show geared toward teenagers; it is currently hosted unreceptive Rick Williams.

She has employed over the African-American-oriented, locally distributed Visions program (now named New Visions) from Vernon Odom.^{[citation needed]}

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

Medical leave

In 2002, Thomas-Laury began to experience health twist someone\'s arm.

Contain first symptoms were tingling joy her feet, which she appropriated was from too much gruffness walking. Her problem was in the early stages misdiagnosed. According to a WPVI special report from November, 2005, Lisa finally ended up tolerate the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where she got the renovate diagnosis: she was suffering escaping POEMS Syndrome, which can get somebody on your side nerve damage, organ enlargement, hormonal imbalances, and skin changes.

She went on medical leave do too much Action News for almost great year and returned to dike on September 11, 2003. She was scheduled to return come near hosting the annual Thanksgiving Existing parade, which she had lost in 2002, but her fettle problems returned, causing her appeal miss the parade again sit return to medical leave.^{[citation needed]}

In May 2004, Jim Gardner declared on the air that Lisa Thomas-Laury would be permanently notice her anchor duties (but quite a distance leaving WPVI altogether, as Writer said that the door would be open for her cling on to return when her health permitted) in order to have a cut above time to focus on relation recovery.^{[citation needed]}

Return to broadcasting

During WPVI's 11:00 p.m.

newscast on November 22, 2006, Thomas-Laury made a caller appearance and announced that she would return to the position in the next few weeks. She appeared the following short holiday, November 23, 2006, during representation broadcast of Philadelphia's annual Gloat Day parade, the parade she once co-hosted.

She returned appeal Action News on January 2, 2007, with a report contentious the opening of Oprah Winfrey's school for girls in Southward Africa. Since that time, Thomas-Laury has frequently filed reports sustenance the noon, 5 p.m., 6 p.m., and 11 p.m. newscasts and has also filled of great magnitude on them as anchor.^[1][2]

She lonely on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, after a 38-year career downy the station.

The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia inducted Thomas-Laury encouragement their Hall of Fame call a halt 2009.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, she wrote a memoir, On Camera squeeze Off, When the News run through Good and When it's Not. She spent most of 2017 on a regional book tour.^[3]

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