Thuy Vu

Thuy is a three-time Emmy award winner who reports for the weekday 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts.  She’s also been a substitute anchor on all of the station’s newscasts and is an occasional co-host on Eye on the Bay, CBS5’s evening magazine program.

This year, she was named “Outstanding Reporter/Correspondent” by the national Alliance for Women in Media Foundation whose other 2010 honorees included Katie Couric, Barbara Walters and Andrea Mitchell.

Thuy’s co-anchored a live, unscripted four-hour webcast on the night of Barack Obama’s historic election which won a west coast Associated Press ”Best Webcast” Award.

She also co-anchored coverage of the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco zoo in December 2007,. earning an Emmy for “Best Newscast” and a west coast Associated Press award for “Best Anchor Team.”

Her national and international reporting includes the kidnappings of American tourists in Mexico, the serial killings of young women working for American factories near the border, drug smuggling from Canada into California, and the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the 2000 presidential election. 

Thuy has returned twice to her homeland of Vietnam for special reports. She won Emmy and Associated Press awards for a report on the 30^th anniversary of Operation Babylift before Saigon fell to the communists. 

Thuy has received 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 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 lived in two refugee camps before resettling with her family in Duluth, Minnesota.  She currently lives in Silicon Valley.  

She’s a member of the Asian American Journalists Association.  She holds a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley.