Tom Roussey Reporter

Tom Roussey

Tom Roussey joined ABC7/WJLA-TV as a reporter in December 2011, returning to the DC area after spending a decade moving up and down the East Coast pursuing his journalism career.

Tom grew up in Silver Spring and is a proud graduate of Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville. He's also a proud Terrapin, receiving a journalism degree from the University of Maryland.

Before coming to ABC7, Tom reported for WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina. Prior to that, he reported from the Naples office of WBBH in Fort Myers, Florida. Tom started his career at WVIR in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Tom loves being a reporter because of all the people he gets to meet, places he gets to go, and things he gets to experience while out on a story.

Tom is a native of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, a small steel mill town about 35 miles west of Philadelphia. While growing up there he used to wake up in the morning to the sound of Amish horse and buggies clip clopping down his street.

He moved to Silver Spring when he was 12. His parents, sister, brother-in-law and niece all still live there.

In his spare time Tom volunteers with the teen group at Grace Community Church in Arlington. He loves reading, weightlifting, and softball. He's also a huge Maryland Terrapins basketball and football fan, and is a die-hard fan of the Philadelphia Phillies and Eagles.

Contact Tom

WJLA
1100 Wilson BLVD, Suite 601 Arlington, VA 22209

Recent Stories

  1. Massachusetts Avenue crash was 'mass chaos'

    WJLA, June 19, 2013 - 08:40 am

    Police say three pedestrians were hurt in a crash near Union Station in northwest Washington Wednesday.

  2. Capital Bikeshare's unfair wages investigated by Department of Labor

    WJLA, June 18, 2013 - 09:53 pm

    Around 20 current and former workers plan to participate in a press conference Wednesday, calling on Capital BIkeshare’s parent company Alta to pay over $100,000 in back pay and benefits.

  3. Metropolitan Branch Trail safety discussed after recent attack

    WJLA, June 17, 2013 - 07:13 pm

    Residents and police are walking parts of the Metropolitan Branch Trail Monday evening to find ways to make it safer to bike and jog on.

  4. Snowden slams Cheney, other critics in online Q&A

    WJLA, June 17, 2013 - 11:47 am

    NSA leaker Edward Snowden is defending his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat with The Guardian and attacking U.S. officials for calling him a traitor, and now locals are reacting to what he did.

  5. Current, former US officials back secret surveillance

    WJLA, June 16, 2013 - 11:08 am

    In interviews on Sunday talk shows, guests ranging from White House chief of staff Denis McDonough to former Vice President Dick Cheney and former CIA and National Security Agency head Michael Hayden defended the government's reliance on data collection from Americans.