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Name: Penny Moss
Title: Anchor
Broadcast Times: 6 p.m. and Tonight - 5:30 Edition
Email Address: penny.moss@wsaz.com
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Click here to read Penny's Journey in Motherhood blog.
Penny Moss says she feels blessed to bring the news to viewers in her hometown. She anchors NewsChannel Three's 5:30 and 6 pm newscasts from WSAZ's Charleston newsroom. Penny's great-grandparents moved to Nitro during World War I, making her a 4th generation Kanawha Valley resident. In fact, she's the only main news anchor here in Charleston-Huntington who is a native West Virginian.
Penny was born in Huntington when her father, Perry Moss, was the head football coach at Marshall University. His career in college and professional football meant her family moved around quite a bit -- living in Chicago, Illinois; Green Bay, Wisconsin; and Orlando, Florida to name a few. Until her family moved back to West Virginia, she rarely started and ended the school year in the same school. Maybe that's why she feels so strongly the importance of giving her children deep roots and a sense of home.
Her family finally settled back in here in West Virginia, and she graduated from Poca High School in Putnam County. She was involved in a number of sports and other activities in school, but her favorite was performing in Poca High's award-winning show choir.
When Penny first started college at Marshall University, she didn't intend to pursue a career in news. In fact, it was a journalism student in her biology lab class, who'd come in every day talking about how great her internship was -- at WSAZ of all places -- who first got her thinking this was the career for her. So she changed her major, and went on to graduate from Marshall with a degree in broadcast journalism and a minor in political science.
Penny was offered her first job at WOAY-TV in Oak Hill, West Virginia, the day before her college graduation. While at WOAY, Penny worked every single job in the newsroom, with the exception of sports: reporting, editing, producing, anchoring, shooting her own video, even doing the weather. She left WOAY to anchor the morning newscasts at WVVA in Bluefield, West Virginia. She finally made it back home to work for NewsChannel 3 in January of 1997.
The West Virginia Women's Commission honored Penny as its 2006 Woman of the Year in the business category. She also serves on the board of directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Kanawha-Putnam area, and West Virginia's Hi-Y Youth Leadership Center.
As much as Penny loves her job, she says her favorite title is Mom. She and her husband Matt have three children: two girls and a boy. Penny says, "My own mother, Jeannette McGinn Moss, used to tell me I'd never know how much she loved me, until I became a mother. I finally understood what she meant when my first child Claire was born, nine months after Mom died. To this day I try to live my life in a way that would make my mom proud."
You're likely to see Penny and her children around Charleston before she comes in to work -- their favorite places to visit are their neighborhood pool in the summertime, The Capitol Market, the Nitro playground, or the Town Center for a little shopping.
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