Fred Shropshire To Join WCAU Philadelphia As Evening News Anchor

Fred Shropshire

NBC O&O WCAU Philadelphia announced today that Fred Shropshire will join the news team as anchor weekday evenings. He starts on Monday, June 26.

“We are excited to have Fred join the NBC10 family,” said Elizabeth Flores, the station’s vice president of news. “He is a dedicated and community-minded journalist, whose knowledge and passion for storytelling will serve our audience well.”

Shropshire comes to WCAU from WCNC, the Tegna NBC affiliate in Charlotte, N.C., where he served as weekday evening anchor. Prior to that, he was at WTVD Raleigh, N.C., where he anchored the 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. newscasts. He conducted more than a dozen sit-down interviews with then-Senator Barack Obama during his first historic presidential run for the White House.

Shropshire’s career began at WCTI New Bern, N.C., and includes stints at WXII Winston-Salem, N.C., and WGN Chicago. He has also chased several tropical storms including Hurricane Ike when it made landfall in Galveston, Texas.

Shropshire graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in journalism. He is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and in 2006, was honored as a distinguished Nelson Benton Lecturer for UNC at Chapel Hill Journalism School. He has been recognized with an RTDNA award, regional Edward R. Murrow awards and regional Emmy awards for his anchoring and reporting.