Melinda Spaulding

Anchor, Fox 26 KRIV-TV

Melinda Spaulding is the co-anchor of FOX 26 News at 5 p.m. and 9 p.m.

Spaulding joined the FOX 26 family shortly before the start of 2005 as a live reporter for FOX 26 News at Nine and a fill-in anchor. In 2006, she was named co-anchor of FOX 26 News at Noon. That same year, she also won a Lone Star Emmy for her story “Bait Cars.”

Before joining the FOX 26 News team, Spaulding was a reporter and anchored morning updates at WGNO, the ABC affiliate in New Orleans. While at WGNO, Melinda was named “Best Spot News Reporter” by the regional Associated Press. She also received a regional Suncoast Emmy award for “Best Spot News Coverage.”

She began her television job tour as a writer and morning news producer at KTLA, WB 5 in Los Angeles. While at KTLA, she won an award for “Best News Writing” by the regional Associated Press.

Spaulding started her journalism career in online media in New York as a member of the launch team for Entertainment Weekly Online and then as the first editor-in-chief for Essence Online.

Serving others in the community she covers is important to the New Jersey native. You can often find Spaulding giving her time by hosting and emceeing charitable events around the Houston area. She serves as a board member for Family Services of Greater Houston and an advisory board member for Pro Vision Inc. Her memberships have included the Spouses of Houston Barristers, The Junior League of Houston, the Houston Association of Black Journalists and Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church.

She is a graduate of Howard University.  She’s married to Houston attorney, Felix Chevalier. They have a four-year-old daughter, Landon Joy, and a two-year-old son, Felix II.