Ashley Glass anchors WPTV Morning News weekdays from 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. and produces in-depth reports across all WPTV platforms.
She hit the ground running when she joined WPTV in 2022, covering the destruction of Hurricane Ian in southwest Florida and delivering live reports from the Treasure Coast in the very moments Hurricane Nicole made landfall. She is now heavily committed to covering stories in the Town of Jupiter and surrounding communities.
In some of her most memorable coverage for WPTV, Ashley helped amplify the voices of survivors of child abuse in the one-hour documentary “GROOMED: Surviving Epstein,” some of them sharing their traumatic stories for the very first time and exclusively with Ashley.
She’s also reported on the execution of a Florida death row inmate and shared compelling stories from the victims’ families in the true crime special "Bad Things Can Happen to Good People.” She also hosted and co-produced the EMMY-winning documentary “The Missing Piece,” which examines three cold cases with ties to a mall in Boca Raton. In one of the most heartfelt stories of her career, Ashley reflected on a decade since two teens vanished at sea in the documentary “Jupiter Lost Boys.”
Her enthusiasm for the WPTV Let's Hear It community meet-ups is unmatched. Ashley helped launch this transformative way of gathering and telling local stories. She got results for a nonprofit being priced out of their warehouse and a woman struggling to keep up with bills related to her volunteer work.
Ashley volunteers her time with a number of local, charitable organizations that have become close to hear heart including The Soup Kitchen Boynton Beach and The Osto Group. She regularly leads panel discussions working alongside the Center for Child Counseling, speaking with global subject-matter experts to dissect the importance of rooting out child abuse with a whole community approach. Coming from a military family, Ashley is honored to emcee the Town of Jupiter’s Memorial Day and Veterans Day ceremonies year after year.
Prior to joining the station, Ashley worked as a national correspondent for Scripps, the parent company of WPTV. She traveled the country to tell stories about plastic pollutants harming wildlife, long COVID-19 research, mental health resources for children and military veterans, shrinking coral reefs and much more.
Ashley has also worked on-air in Tampa, Gainesville and central Illinois.
She's covered many significant news events across Florida, including the Surfside condo collapse, the Gulf oil spill and recovery, the Casey Anthony trial, the final launch of Shuttle Discovery and the case against George Zimmerman.
Ashley is the daughter of a retired Navy pilot and is extremely proud of her family's service to our great country. One of her favorite moments as a journalist goes back to early in her career when Ashley flew at supersonic speeds with the U.S. Navy Blue Angels as her father watched from the tarmac.
She graduated from the University of Florida with honors and dual degrees in telecommunication-news and political science.
Ashley resides in the West Palm Beach area with her husband and two daughters. As a family, they love supporting local. If you see Ashley and her crew at the beach, a mom-and-pop restaurant or farmers market, please say hello and tip her off to your favorite local spots.
