Tonia Caruso
OnQ Correspondent/Host, Comcast Local Edition
Tonia Caruso is an Emmy winning correspondent for OnQ, the region’s only nightly news magazine program. She is also the host of Comcast Local Edition. In both roles, Tonia brings viewers stories from throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Tonia joined the staff of OnQ at WQED in September 2001, after working nearly ten years in local television news. She’s won two Mid-Atlantic Emmy awards for her long-format storytelling for OnQ.
Tonia began her career as a writer and producer at KDKA-TV and six years later, switched to in front of the camera, as a reporter for WTAE-TV.
Tonia is an active member of the Pittsburgh community. She’s a board member for the Center for Victims of Violence and Crime and sits on the advisory board member of UPMC’s Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.
Tonia grew up in Pittsburgh’s Oakland section. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a dual degree of English Writing and Communications.
