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Thuy Vu joined ABC7 News in August 2000 as co-anchor of the ABC7 Sunday Morning News at 6 a.m and 8 a.m. She's also a reporter based in the South Bay Bureau.
Prior to joining ABC7, Thuy worked at two other Bay Area television stations as a reporter and substitute anchor.
She began her journalism career in public radio at KQED-FM in San Francisco. She then moved on to National Public Radio, spending three months at their headquarters in Washington DC covering Congress and national politics before returning to their San Francisco bureau.
Thuy 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 has 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. In 2000, she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her investigation of safety problems at California's amusement parks.
San Francisco's Focus magazine (now renamed San Francisco) once named her as one of the Bay Area's most talented people under 40-years-old.
Thuy thrives on breaking news and has covered many major stories, including the Loma Prieta earthquake of '89, the Oakland Hills fire of '91, the O.J. Simpson trial and verdict in Los Angeles, and the mass cult suicide of Heaven's Gate members in Rancho Santa Fe.
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 was born in Vietnam and is fluent in Vietnamese. She fled Vietnam by boat with her family as Saigon fell to the Communists at the end of the Vietnam War.
She holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Rhetoric from U.C. Berkeley.
Thuy gives her time generously to community groups, often emceeing fundraisers, giving keynote speeches, or judging competitions.
Thuy covers news out of our South Bay bureau.