Meredyth joined the ABC Action News morning team in September, 2008. Weekdays between 5-9 a.m. Meredyth brings viewers traffic reports from the ABC Action News studios using real-time data from a variety of resources including local law enforcement agencies, traffic cameras and roving Action News photojournalists. While Meredyth is keeping an eye on the roads from the studio, Capt. Al Taylor is monitoring traffic conditions from the sky in Action Air 1.
Meredyth has been covering the morning commute in Tampa Bay since 2005. She most recently worked as morning traffic reporter and a feature reporter for WTSP and was nominated for an Emmy Award (2008) for her work at that station.
Prior to making the move to the Sunshine State Meredyth worked as an evening news anchor and education reporter at WJHL in Tri-Cities, TN/VA where she was honored with the School Bell award from the Tennessee Education Association for outstanding news coverage.
Meredyth also worked as a reporter/producer at WDBJ in Roanoke, VA and as a weekend news and weather anchor and reporter at WHSV in Harrisonburg, VA where a report she did about a mother of three who was dying of liver disease prompted a viewer to volunteer to donate a portion of his liver to save her life, resulting in the first stranger-to-stranger living liver donor transplant in the world. Meredyth began her news career as a weekend weather anchor and reporter in Victoria, TX.
She is a 1998 magna cum laude graduate of the University of South Carolina’s College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
In her free time Meredyth is a freelance writer whose work appears locally in Tampa Bay Metro magazine. She’s also completed projects for the American Cancer Society and Shriners Hospitals for Children and has helped build homes for Habitat for Humanity.
