Claudia Vargas Biography
Claudia Vargas is a Columbian-American anchor and reporter working as a weekday investigative reporter for WCAU-TV and NBC10. She has been working for the station since April 2020 after working for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Claudia Vargas Age
Vargas is 38 years old as of 2023. She was born on 2nd April 1985 in Miami and celebrates her birthday every year on 2nd of April. She can speak fluent Spanish and English since she spent her early childhood in Cali, Colombia, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, and later came back to Miami to finish middle and high school.
Claudia Vargas Height
Vargas stands at an approximate height of 5 feet and 6 inches.
Claudia Vargas Family
Vargas’s parents are Columbians who lived in Miami where Vargas was brought up alongside her sister Laura Vargas and her brother who lives in Hawaii. She is close to her parents and her relatives as she often posts their photos on her social media.
Claudia Vargas Husband
Vargas is happily married to Hadji Alexander Cheston Maloumian. Hadji was born in May 1984 and is 39 years old as of 2023. They officiated their marriage on 20th October 2017 and they have been together for more than six years. They are blessed with a daughter called Alexandra Blake Teresa Maloumian who was born on 14th January 2022. The couple and their lovely daughter Alexandra live in the Fairmount neighborhood, of Philadelphia.
Claudia Vargas Net Worth
Vargas has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million and $5 Million which she has earned through her successful career as an investigative reporter.
Claudia Vargas Salary
Vargas earns an annual salary ranging from $ 45,000 – $ 110,500.
Claudia Vargas Education
Vargas attended Penn State University in August 2003 where she graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in broadcast journalism and international studies in May 2007. While studying she worked as a reporter and editor at The Daily Collegian. She also produced, ran cameras for newscasts, reported, and anchored the Centre County Report.
Claudia Vargas NBC1O Career
Vargas works for WCAU-TV and NBC10 serving as a weekday investigative reporter since April 2020. While here, she has written and reported on a true crime series called “Who Killed Barbara Jean?”. She also covered the race in the Philly series. Her investigative reporting has covered issues of racial equity inside the police department’s recruitment practices, and exposed the city’s subsidized workforce housing program was being abused by some of its participants. The investigation also uncovered the city’s discrepancy in how it doled outline of duty death benefits. During her tenure at NBC10, she has been awarded three Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards and four Mid-Atlantic Emmys awards.
Claudia Vargas Career
Before joining NBC10 and WCAU-TV, Vargas served as a reporter at the Philadelphia Inquirer from January 2010 to April 2020. While there, she covered Camden, NJ the poorest and one of the most violent cities in the country at that time. In addition to this, she covered the mayor and the city’s several agencies, as well as the transition from the Nutter to the Kenney administration and several other elections and changes of guards in 2015. Additionally, she reported on the dysfunction of the city’s $1 home program in 2016, and the recklessness of some of the city’s trash drivers.
At the start of her career, Claudia worked for Democrat and Chronicle as a reporter from June 2007 to January 2010 in Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area. At the Democrat and Chronicle, she covered fatal car accidents, homicides, and fires among others. Vargas also followed up on a story tracing where the gun came from that was used to shoot a rookie cop in the head. She also investigated what led to the mob death of a mother protecting her teenage daughter.
Vargas is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, editors, and investigative reporters. On one of the nation’s oldest press clubs, Pen and Pencil Club, she served as the governor.
Claudia Vargas NBC10 Philadelphia
Vargas is working at NBC10 where she works alongside other famous NBC10 meteorologists, anchors, and reporters including;
- JACQUELINE LONDON
- ERIN COLEMAN
- TRACY DAVIDSON
- BILL HENLEY
- BRITTNEY SHIPP
- ROSEMARY CONNORS
- FRANCES WANG
- AUNYEA LACHELLE
- SHEILA WATKO
- AARON BASKERVILLE
- MATT DELUCIA
- DEANNA DURANTE
- TIM FURLONG
- RANDY GYLLENHAAL
Claudia Vargas Social Media Platforms
She is active on her social media accounts and is often seen posting on her Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. She has over 7625 followers on Twitter.
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