WUSA-TV Reporter, McLean Resident Wins Outstanding Community Partner Award

The Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce annually  honors community and business leaders for their outstanding service to McLean. Seventeen men and women, our neighbors, received awards in a recent ceremony for their amazing work. McLean Patch is profiling each winner.

Outstanding Community Partner - Peggy Fox

In just the last month, Peggy has served as a presenter at the Chamber’s Women’s Leadership Forum, moderator for the McLean Citizens Association and Chamber Legislative Forum and she will again serve as the emcee for the WinterFest Parade in December to name just a few of her community contributions.

Peggy Fox, a reporter for WUSA-TV,  is a three-time Emmy award winning multi-media journalist who often shoots, writes and edits her own stories. She's covered some of the major news events of the past two decades such as the Virginia Tech shootings, 9/11, Washington's sniper shootings, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and the Panama Invasion.

Peggy is also a mother of two and heads up the local mom's social-networking site, moms-like-me.com. Peggy has a unique perspective for a Washington television newsperson. She's a Fairfax County native from Springfield who knows what the beltway was like before gridlock. She's now a resident of McLean and a Virginia Tech Alumnus.

Stories she covers usually focus on Northern Virginia or parenting and motherhood issues. Peggy Fox has been honored with numerous community awards, including the 2007 Fairfax Partnership for Youth, Y-SAD, Youth Suicide and Depression Award for her stories on mental illness. She was also honored in 2007 by Justice for Children for Outstanding Reporting on Child Abuse and Domestic Violence, and she was given a Certificate of Achievement by the Fairfax County Commission for Women for superior efforts in furthering the cause of Women in Media.

In June, 2009, Peggy won two Emmys, one for a breaking news story and the other for a series on her brother-in-law who is recovering from a brain injury after being injured in the Iraq war. Earlier, she won an Emmy for her investigative report on childhood lead poisoning which prompted three local governments to remove playground equipment covered with lead paint.

Peggy has a BA degree in Communications from Virginia Tech. Peggy is married to her high school sweetheart at West Springfield. They have two children and a dog.