Thuy Vu
Thuy Vu | |
|---|---|
| Born | Vietnam |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (B.S., Rhetoric, 1992) [1] |
| Occupation | broadcast journalist |
| Awards | three Emmy awards Edward R. Murrow award |
Thuy Vu is a journalist, anchor, and reporter.
Early life and education
Thuy Vu was born in Vietnam. As Saigon fell to the Communists at the end of the Vietnam War, she fled the country by boat with her family. She endured two refugee camps before resettling with her family in Duluth, Minnesota.[2]
She is a 1985 graduate of Independence High School in San Jose, California.[3]
In 1992 she earned a bachelor's degree with honors in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.[1][4]
Career
Vu began her journalism career in public radio at KQED-FM in San Francisco and National Public Radio where she first covered Congress and national politics in Washington, D.C. before returning to their San Francisco bureau.
Vu was at KPIX for four years as a reporter and fill-in anchor in the 1990s. She also reported at KTVU. Vu joined ABC7 News in August 2000 as co-anchor of the ABC7 Sunday Morning News at 7 a.m and 9 a.m. She's also a reporter based in the South Bay Bureau.
She joined CBS in December 2005, working out of the San Jose bureau, and remained with CBS in various capacities until 2012. She was an Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter for CBS-5 "Eyewitness News" in San Francisco. She co-hosted the final year of KPIX's "Eye on the Bay" until original production ceased in May 2012.[4]
Since September 2012, Vu has been a Multimedia Communications Instructor at Academy of Art University in San Francisco and a board member of the Asian Pacific Fund.[5]
In 2013, she was the host of Link TV's LinkAsia news program, which is also broadcast on PBS.[6] She hosted the program until August 2014.
Also in 2013, she began as host of the program KQED Newsroom on KQED-TV in San Francisco.[7]
Awards and honors
Vu has received numerous awards from both regional and national organizations for her reporting. American Women in Radio and Television honored her as Best Reporter in the Bay Area. She won two national awards from the Asian American Journalists Association; one was for a multi-part series on post-war life in her homeland of Vietnam. She has also won honors from the Public Radio News Directors Association. She also earned Emmy and Associated Press awards for a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Operation Babylift flights at the end of the Vietnam war and co-anchored live coverage of the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo in December 2007 and for her investigation of safety problems at California's amusement parks.[4]
She’s a member of the Asian American Journalists Association.
References
- ^ a b UC Berkeley Google+ site
- ^ "Profile: Thuy Vu", Asian Pacific Fund
- ^ "Thuy Vu: Independence, Class of 1985 — Inducted in 2012", ESUHSD (East Side Union High School District) Education Foundation
- ^ a b c Bio at CBS
- ^ "Board Member Bio: Thuy Vu", Asian Pacific Fund
- ^ LinkAsia website
- ^ Wiegand, David, "'KQED Newsroom' with Thuy Vu replacing 'This Week'", San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, July 11, 2013