Thuy Vu
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Thuy Vu | |
|---|---|
| Born | Vietnam |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Occupation | broadcast journalist |
| Awards | Seven Emmy Awards Edward R. Murrow award |
Thuy Vu is a Vietnamese-American journalist, anchor, reporter and international corporate business mentor. Vu is the Co-founder and President of Global Mentor Network.[1] Vu is a seven-time Emmy Award winner and recipient of an Edward R. Murrow award.[2] She was named by the San Jose Mercury News and East Bay Times as one of the San Francisco Bay Area's most Inspiring Women. Vu has been interviewed by numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, CNN, CBS-5, San Francisco Chronicle, and Bay Area News Group.
Thuy Vu was born in Vietnam. In 1975, she emigrated from Vietnam after Saigon fell to the Viet Minh communist regime at the end of the Vietnam War. She fled the country with her family by boat and settled in Duluth, Minnesota.[3] She is a 1985 graduate of Independence High School in San Jose, California.[4] In 1992 she earned a bachelor's degree with honors in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.[5]
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 news 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.[5] 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.[6] In 2013, she was the host of Link TV's LinkAsia news program, which is also broadcast on PBS.[7] 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.[8] She hosted the program until June 2019.[9]