TV reporter Joy Purdy is a Jersey girl who ended up in the Sunshine State.
The Trenton-born Ms. Purdy is a main weekday evening anchor for WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. Originally a weekend anchor and a police reporter for that station from 1995 to 2000, she returned to WJXT in 2013 after getting married and having reported for WFOR-TV in Miami, and she's remained at WJXT since.
Ms. Purdy got her start out of Villanova University in Pennsylvania, where she graduated with a B.A. degree in mass communications, working as an intern at Philadelphia's ABC affiliate, WPVI-TV, and as a reporter for New Jersey public television.
Among the stories Ms. Purdy has covered in Florida are a $20 million robbery Loomis Fargo robbery, possibly the largest robbery in U.S. history; the installation of Nat Glover as Jacksonville's first black sheriff, and: Hurricane Frances, which hit Florida in 2004. It passed right over her.
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