 Malpass began her career as a reporter for the student-run newspaper, "The Daily Tar Heel", at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.She then worked as a news anchor and reporter for WCHL-AM in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; a reporter for WFMY-TV, in Greensboro, North Carolina; and a reporter and anchor at WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.Malpass joined WPVI (Channel 6), the local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia, in January 1988.