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Rachel DePompa

Rachel DePompa is Director of Investigations and a mid-day anchor for 12 On Your Side. 4w3k6i

Rachel’s been a staple of Richmond television for more than 17 years. She’s won numerous Emmys and has served on the board of the Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Rachel grew up in Waldorf, Md., and graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in broadcast journalism.

Rachel also hosted and edited our How We Got Here Podcast. You can now catch her series Watching Your Wallet here at 12 On Your Side and at most of our TV stations across Gray Television.

She got her start in TV anchoring newscasts in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She also worked in Bristol and Roanoke before ing WWBT in March of 2008. Rachel met her husband here in Richmond and loves spending time with her family, which includes twins - a boy and a girl.

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  • University of Maryland, Journalism
  • Affiliations 5ia38
  • Member of the Investigative Reporters and Editors
  • Awards r2u72
  • 5 Edward R Murrow Awards for Investigative Reporting
  • 2016 Most Outstanding Effort by an Individual Reporter from the Virginia Associated Press Broadcasters
  • 4-time Emmy winner and 10-time nominee
  • 7 first place honors from the Virginia Association of Broadcasters
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