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Pam Cunningham
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Pam Cunningham joined the 69 News: Berks
Edition in September 2009. She's happy to be back on the East Coast and
so close to family and friends in Philadelphia, where she grew up.
Pam came to Reading from the Midwest where she was a general assignment
reporter at WQAD in the Quad Cities.
Over her three years in Illinois and Iowa she covered hundreds of
different stories. She covered the 2008 Iowa caucuses and the
presidential candidates who spent months campaigning there. She traveled
to Dekalb, Illinois to cover the campus shootings at NIU. And Pam was
the first to report on a story that changed Iowa state laws protecting
the mentally-disabled. She broke the story of a boarding home housing 24
mentally disabled men in Atalissa that was being investigated by the
state. Pam also received an Associated Press award with her station for
coverage of the tornado that hit Fruitland, Iowa.
Before coming to WQAD, Pam earned her Masters in broadcast journalism
from Syracuse University's Newhouse School and reported from Washington,
D.C. for WBRE-TV in Wilkes Barre/Scranton, Pa. And she was also a
student reporter for WAER-FM, the local NPR station.
She graduated from Tufts University. Fluent in Spanish, she also studied
in Madrid, Spain. For high school, she attended William Penn Charter
School in Philadelphia .
Before her news career, Pam worked as an account executive in public
relations in Washington, DC and was a English teacher in Mexico City,
Mexico.
Pam lives in Berks County with her husband, Alex and her daughter. When
she's not working she enjoys traveling and watching the Eagles.
If you have a story idea for Pam, don't hesitate to contact her,
pcunningham@wfmz.com. She loves telling the stories of the people in
Berks County. And to see what she is working on you can always follow
her on Twitter at
http://twitter.com/reporterpam.
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