Thalia Perez is an Emmy Award-winning television journalist from New York City. She has two decades of professional experience in news, working as a reporter and anchor at news stations along the East Coast including WABC-TV and WTXF Fox 29 in Philadelphia. Thalia began her news career in Long Island covering traffic stories for Metro Traffic and Weather in 2001.
In 2004, she reported for WPIX-TV (the CW11) where she won her first Emmy for a feature piece on a New York City firefighter, who jumped from a Bronx burning building and survived. Thalia also worked on various exclusive and feature pieces during her time at WPIX, including the opening of the first bilingual and cultural arts center in Brooklyn, and the only existing Wolf Preserve in the tri-state area. She was also present for breaking news events such as the death of Pope John Paul the second, the 2005 transit strike, and the aftermath of Yankee baseball player Corey Lidle’s fatal plane crash on the Upper East Side.
In 2021, Thalia joined the WCBS-TV news team covering breaking news and feature stories across the tri-state area.
Born and raised in New York City, Thalia graduated from New York University with a B.S. in Communications.
She lives in Manhattan with her husband and three children.