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Betty Nguyen
American news anchor (born )
Betty Nguyen (born September 1, ) is an American news anchor, currently CBS Miami morning news co-anchor. Nguyen has previously worked for NBC News, MSNBC, CBS News, CNN, and WPIX.
Career
Nguyen began her career as a morning anchor and reporter at KWTX-TV, the CBS affiliate in Waco, Texas.[2] Then, she was an anchor at KTVT-TV, the CBS affiliate in Dallas, where she covered numerous breaking news events, including the Columbia disaster.
Nguyen then joined CNN, where she anchored the weekend morning edition of CNN Newsroom. She spent six years at CNN covering major news events including the Haiti earthquake, presidential elections in Africa, Hurricane Katrina, and the death of Pope John Paul II. She also went on an undercover assignment in Myanmar.
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Nguyen became a network anchor and correspondent for CBS News in She was news anchor for CBS This Morning Saturday, correspondent for The Early Show, and anchored the CBS Morning News.[2][3] During her tenure, she was also a substitute anchor on the weekend edition of the CBS Evening News and a Special Correspondent for Entertainment Tonight.[4]
Nguyen joined NBC in She anchored Early Today on NBC and later, Morning Joe First Look on MSNBC.
She was also a correspondent for the Today Show.[5]
Nguyen was recognized by the Smithsonian Institution in as the first Vietnamese-American to anchor a national television news broadcast in the United States.[6] According to Maxim, she was named one of "TV´s 10 Hottest News Anchors" in [7] In , she was listed as one of "The 10 Most Stylish Anchors & Reporters" by The Huffington Post.[8] Nguyen spent a short time as a freelance correspondent for E!
Entertainment Network. She has hosted several specials and was featured as a reporter on episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger. She can also be seen in Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
Nguyen became the new co-anchor of the PIX11 Morning News at WPIX-TV on June 19, , succeeding Sukanya Krishnan, who left the station after 17 years.[9]
On February 17, , Nguyen was named morning news co-anchor at WFOR-TV in Miami. Nguyen will join co-anchor Keith Jones, meteorologist Lissette Gonzalez and breaking news and traffic anchor Austin Carter from a.m.
to 7 a.m. starting March [10]
Personal life
Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam. She is of Vietnamese and Scottish American descent. Nguyen and her family left Vietnam for the United States in April during the Fall of Saigon.[11][12] From a CNN videotape, she speaks about her father.[13]
He was an American serviceman who fell in love with a Vietnamese college student.
They married and had me, a child who was given life, when so many were losing theirs in the war. We fled Vietnam, crammed into a packed C cargo plane. It was stepping into the unknown.
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Nguyen grew up in Fort Worth, Texas, and attended the University of Texas at Austin.
She was a cheerleader during her younger days and a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority in college.[14] She graduated magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism.[15]
Nguyen is a fan of the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Mavericks, and Texas Longhorns.[16]
In July Nguyen announced she was pregnant with her first child.
She gave birth to a son, Thomas, on December 15, [17] She also mentioned that she had previously suffered a miscarriage.[18] Her second son, Christopher, was born July 10,
Board membership and affiliations
Awards
See also
References
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Help the Hungry. Retrieved 18 December
- ^ ab"Betty Nguyen". CBS News. 7 April Archived from the original on 26 April
- ^Ariens, Chris (6 April ). "Betty Nguyen Leaving CBS News". Media Bistro. Retrieved 6 April
- ^"#CelebsUnfiltered, Social Celebrities, Entertainment News, Photos, Videos, and Exclusives".
WhoSay. Retrieved 18 December
- ^"TODAY Video - Latest TODAY show clips, news & video". . Retrieved 18 December
- ^ ab"CNN Anchors & Reporters: Betty Nguyen". Archived from the original on 15 July Retrieved 11 August
- ^Burchette, Jordan (18 November ).
"TV´s 10 Hottest News Anchors".
Betty nguyen leaving cnn for fox sports Furthermore, the couple became blessed with another son, Christopher, in July In , at her alma mater, the Betty Nguyen Scholarship in Broadcasting was established to help students achieve a career in broadcast journalism. The couple got engaged in December and got married on July 26, , at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in Manhattan. Cheryl Crabtree and Family.Archived from the original on 1 December Retrieved 21 November
- ^Krupnick, Ellie (6 September ). "The 10 Most Stylish TV Anchors & Reporters (PHOTOS)". Huffington Post.
- ^"Betty Nguyen Leaves NBC for WPIX".
- ^Miller, Mark (17 February ).
"Betty Nguyen Joins WFOR Miami And CBS News Miami". TV News Check. Retrieved 18 February
- ^Moran, Jaymie (May ). "CNN's Betty Nguyen". Archived from the original on 1 October Retrieved 1 February
- ^Kennedy, Kyle (19 March ). "CNN Anchor Turns the Tables, Tells Own Tale". Archived from the original on 29 March Retrieved 20 March
- ^"CNN NewsNight Aaron Brown: Operation Baby Lift, aired April 29, "(transcript).
. Retrieved 18 December
- ^Fontenot, Rebecca (1 January ). "Word-Perfect". Texas Exes. Retrieved 1 April
- ^Do, Anh (25 November ). "Profile: Betty Nguyen".
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Nguoi Viet. Archived from the original on 7 November Retrieved 4 March
- ^Haag, Matthew (6 June ). "CNN anchor loves her Mavericks". . Archived from the original on 28 September Retrieved 11 August
- ^Nguyen, Betty (14 July ).Paula zahn leaving cnn Her parents are of Vietnamese and Scottish-American descent. Cheryl Crabtree and Family. View this post on Instagram. Nguyen has worked as an anchor and correspondent for CBS News Miami since joining the network in
"Who says being pregnant during summer is miserable? ". . Retrieved 18 December
- ^Nguyen, Betty (14 July ). "Who says being pregnant during summer is miserable? ". . Retrieved 18 December
- ^Staff and Wire Reports (1 April ). "People Watch: Newsmakers".Betty nguyen leaving cnn for fox news today A post shared by Betty Nguyen thebettynguyen. Vietnamese-American news anchor Betty Nguyen is currently residing in the metropolitan New York area. She is of Vietnamese and Scottish ancestry. As of , Nguyen is 50 years old.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
- ^"Betty Nguyen on Unusual Course AsianWeek". Archived from the original on 2 April Retrieved 2 April
- ^"TNJN - Asian American Association to host an evening with CNN anchor Betty Nguyen". . Archived from the original on 2 April Retrieved 13 January