Thuy Vu Biography
Thuy Vu is an American journalist, anchor, and reporter. Thuy Vu is the host of “KQED Newsroom” on PBS and “Scale the Wall” by NASDAQ. Her career in broadcasting began in the early 1990s and includes roles of anchor, reporter, and host on various networks such as PBS, NPR, ABC, CBS, and Fox.
Ms. Vu has won five Emmy awards, the prestigious Edward R. Murrow award, amongst many others.
Career
Vu commenced her journalism career in public radio at KQED-FM in San Francisco. She later proceeded to the National Public Radio where she first covered Congress and national politics in Washington, D.C. Vu later returned 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. Additionally, she is also a reporter based in the South Bay Bureau.
She joined CBS in December 2005, working out of the San Jose bureau. Vu remained with CBS in various capacities until 2012. Thanks to her hard work and dedication, 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”. She held this position until original production ceased in May 2012.
Since September 2012, Vu has been a Multimedia Communications Instructor at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has also been 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.
Thuy Vu Education
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.
Thuy Vu Family
All but two of her siblings live in the Bay Area, and the others are in Sacramento and Los Angeles. Vu’s father, Dich Vu, died two years ago. Her mother, Lan Nguyen, still invites all comers for Vietnamese dinner on Saturday night, in the San Jose home Vu grew up in.
Thuy Vu Early Life
Her parents married and settled in Saigon where they raised a family. Vu was the second to the youngest of eight kids.
Vu’s family fled Vietnam when Saigon fell to the communists in 1975. She was elementary-school-age and the second-youngest of eight children. The family was so large they couldn’t leave together, so some left by plane and others by cargo ship. Their only money was some gold sewn into the lining of her mother’s skirt. Nobody spoke English.
The journey became more perilous after their boat was denied port in Singapore.
After a stop in Guam, the family made it to the U.S. mainland and reunited in Arkansas. Later they were sponsored by a Lutheran church group in Duluth, Minn., on chilly Lake Superior, with little understanding of the new culture. Vu remembers the family washed their clothes in the bathtub for months, before learning about the existence of washing machines.
Vu’s parents worked hard, with high hopes for their children’s future. Her mother worked at a garment factory in Duluth until the plant closed. Then she joined Vu’s father working at the Jeno’s frozen pizza factory.
The family moved to San Jose in 1979, not because of the climate but because of California’s abundance of four-year public colleges. The future news anchor had a summer job in the 1980s soldering components onto motherboards at a computer company. Both parents worked on assembly lines in high-tech companies.
Thuy Vu Husband
Like several other journalists, Thuy Vu is confidential when it comes to her personal life and relationships. Vu prefers to keep her life off the public sphere rather than sharing information to the public. She is hardworking and career-oriented which is the reason behind her giving the top priority to her career rather than being involved in a serious relationship.
Moreover, Vu might be married and might have already started her family with her husband. But she has not revealed anything about it yet. Besides, she is active on Twitter where often posts stuffs about her career.
Thuy Vu Age
Thuy Vu was born in Vietnam. Unfortunately, she has not revealed details about her age or the date of her birth.
Thuy Vu Education
She is a 1985 graduate of Independence High School in San Jose, California.
In 1992 she earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.
Thuy Vu Awards
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.
She is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association.
Thuy Vu Net Worth
Thuy Vu is active in the field for years and has worked at several networks from where she certainly makes a great net worth and salary. As of 2018, Vu makes the net worth of $million, but, the amount is still under review.
According to some sources, a KQED employee makes the salary of around $ 75k.