Thuy Vu is a Vietnamese-American journalist, News presenter, reporter and international corporate business mentor. Vu is the Co-founder and President of Global Mentor Network.
Early life and education
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
Boat people and settled in Duluth, Minnesota.
She is a 1985 graduate of Independence High School in San Jose, California.
[ "Thuy Vu: Independence, Class of 1985 — Inducted in 2012", ESUHSD (East Side Union High School District) Education Foundation] In 1992 she earned a bachelor's degree with honors in
rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.
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
KPIX-TV "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.
[ Bio at CBS ] 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.
In 2013, she was the host of
Link TV's LinkAsia news program, which is also broadcast on
PBS.
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.
[Wiegand, David, "'KQED Newsroom' with Thuy Vu replacing 'This Week'", San Francisco Chronicle, Thursday, July 11, 2013] She hosted the program until June 2019.
Awards and honors
Vu has received numerous awards from both regional and national organizations for her reporting. In 2010, Vu was honored as "Outstanding Reporter & correspondent by the National Alliance for Women in Media"; in 2011, she won the Edward R. Murrow award; and in 2015, was also awarded the 2015 Berkeley's "Bill and Patrice Brandt Alumni Leadership Award" by the Institute of Government Studies - UC Berkeley in their annual Leadership Award Recipients ceremony.
The American Women in Radio and Television also honored her as the Best Reporter in the
Bay Area. She won two national awards from the Asian American Journalists Association. 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.
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