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Thuy is a three-time Emmy award winner who reports for the weekday 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts. She's also the primary substitute for the main weeknight anchor. She joined the station in December 2005, based in the San Jose bureau.
Thuy co-anchored live coverage of the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco zoo in December 2007 and provided additional reporting that day on the zoo's troubled history. The coverage won an Emmy for "Best Newscast" and a west coast Associated Press award for "Best Anchor Team."
Her passion for journalism has taken her to many places. In Mexico, she covered the kidnappings of American tourists and the serial killings of young women working for American factories near the border. She's also reported on drug smuggling from Canada into California. In 2000, she traveled to Washington, D.C. to cover the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the contested Florida vote in the presidential election.
Thuy has returned twice to her homeland of Vietnam for special reports on the country's political and economic changes since the Vietnam war. She won Emmy and Associated Press awards for a report on the 30th anniversary of the first Operation Babylift flight rescuing orphans right before Saigon fell to the communists. The story featured rare interviews with the pilot, the orphanage director and one of the orphans, now grown and living with his wife and children in Seattle.
She's also received numerous other honors. Among them, three national Awards of Excellence from the Asian American Journalists Association, as well as awards from American Women in Radio and Television and the Peninsula Press Club.
In 2009, she completed Leadership Institute training with the International Women's Media Foundation.
She has also received a Jefferson Fellowship from the University of Hawaii's East-West Center. During the two-month program, she traveled throughout Asia to better understand the cultures and governments of the region.
In 2004, readers of AsianWeek selected her as their favorite broadcaster.
Previously, Thuy worked at ABC7 as a weekend anchor and reporter and at KTVU as a reporter and fill-in anchor.
She started her journalism career in public radio at KQED-FM in San Francisco. She later moved on to National Public Radio (NPR), where she first covered Congress and national politics in Washington, D.C. before returning to their San Francisco bureau.
Thuy immigrated from Vietnam in 1975, fleeing the country with her family as Saigon fell to the communists.
She's a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. She's also on the board of directors for the Asian Pacific Fund, a community foundation that provides scholarships to students and funding grants for Asian non-profits in the Bay Area.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley.
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