Thuy Vu
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Thuy Vu is an Emmy award-winning anchor
and reporter for CBS-5
"Eyewitness News" in San Francisco. She currently cohosts "Eye on the Bay".
Thuy was born in Vietnam
and fled Vietnam by boat
with her family as Saigon fell to the Communists
at the end of the Vietnam War
. She holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Rhetoric
from U.C. Berkeley ..
She was at KPIX for four years as a reporter and fill-in anchor in the 1990s. She was also the same things at KTVU
. Thuy Vu joined ABC
7 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. Thuy began her journalism career in public radio at KQED-FM
in San Francisco and National Public Radio. She joined the CBS in December 2005, working out of the San Jose bureau.
Thuy 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 has 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 as 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 ..
Anchor
An anchor is a device, normally made of metal, that is used to connect a vessel to the bed of a body of water to prevent the vessel from drifting due to wind or current. The word derives from Latin ancora, which itself comes from the Greek ἄγκυρα .Anchors can either be temporary or permanent...
and reporter for CBS-5
KPIX-TV
KPIX-TV is the CBS owned and operated television station in San Francisco, California. Through its parent company CBS Corporation, KPIX is co-owned with The CW affiliate KBCW-TV ....
"Eyewitness News" in San Francisco. She currently cohosts "Eye on the Bay".
Thuy was born in Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
and fled Vietnam by boat
Boat people
Boat people is a term that usually refers to refugees, illegal immigrants or asylum seekers who emigrate in numbers in boats that are sometimes old and crudely made...
with her family as Saigon fell to the Communists
Viet Minh
Việt Minh was a national independence coalition formed at Pac Bo on May 19, 1941. The Việt Minh initially formed to seek independence for Vietnam from the French Empire. When the Japanese occupation began, the Việt Minh opposed Japan with support from the United States and the Republic of China...
at the end of the Vietnam War
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
. She holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Rhetoric
Rhetoric
Rhetoric is the art of discourse, an art that aims to improve the facility of speakers or writers who attempt to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. As a subject of formal study and a productive civic practice, rhetoric has played a central role in the Western...
from U.C. Berkeley ..
She was at KPIX for four years as a reporter and fill-in anchor in the 1990s. She was also the same things at KTVU
KTVU
KTVU, virtual channel 2 , is the Fox-affiliated television station serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Licensed to Oakland, California, the station has been owned by Atlanta-based Cox Enterprises since 1964, making it the largest Fox affiliate by market size that is not owned and operated by the...
. Thuy Vu joined ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
7 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. Thuy began her journalism career in public radio at KQED-FM
KQED-FM
KQED-FM is an NPR-member radio station owned by Northern California Public Broadcasting in San Francisco, California.KQED-FM was founded by James Day in 1969 as the radio arm of KQED Television. The founding manager was Bernard Mayes who later went on to be Executive Vice-President of KQED TV and...
in San Francisco and National Public Radio. She joined the CBS in December 2005, working out of the San Jose bureau.
Thuy 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 has 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
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
awards for a feature on the 30th anniversary of the Operation Babylift
Operation Babylift
Operation Babylift was the name given to the mass evacuation of children from South Vietnam to the United States and other countries at the end of the Vietnam War , from April 3–26, 1975...
flights at the end of the Vietnam war and as co-anchored live coverage of the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo
San Francisco Zoo
The San Francisco Zoo, housing more than 260 animal species, is a zoo located in the southwestern corner of San Francisco, California, between Lake Merced and the Pacific Ocean along the Great Highway...
in December 2007 and for her investigation of safety problems at California's amusement parks ..