Anchors
Wendy Tokuda
Wendy Tokuda anchors the 5 pm news Monday through Friday. Tokuda began her broadcasting career in Seattle as a secretary in public affairs and then as a news reporter. Next she worked at KPIX for 14 years as an anchor /reporter, co-anchoring the first place 6 and 11pm news. She then moved to Los Angeles and co-anchored the 6pm news for five years before returning to the bay area in KRON 4 1997 as an anchor/reporter.
In addition to co-anchoring the 5pm news, Tokuda works on her series, "Students Rising Above" profiling low-income, at-risk Bay Area teenagers. This nationally recognized series has won the Peabody Award, a National Emmy for Public Service, the national Sigma Delta Chi Public Service Award, and the NAB Education Foundation's "Service to America" Award. It has raised more than 3.8 million dollars in scholarship funds to help send these students to college, and will air on CBS 5.
Tokuda's awards include a Peabody award, a national Emmy for Public Service, the national Sigma Delta Chi Public Service Award and the NAB Service to America Award. She has also won many regional awards, including seven Emmys, three first place awards from Tri-State United Press International, two Northern California World Affairs Council Awards of Excellence, four California AP Certificates of Excellence, three first place RTNDA awards, three Peninsula Press Club awards, a Golden Mike Award, and a Los Angeles Press Club Award. She has been active in and honored by many community organizations and was founding president of the Bay Area chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.
She attended Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington, holds a BA cum laude from the University of Washington and attended the Tokyo School of the Japanese Language. She is also the co-author of two children's books, has two daughters and lives in Oakland.
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