Betty Nguyen
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| Betty Nguyen | |
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| Born | Saigon, Vietnam |
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| Occupation | TV News Journalist |
Betty Nguyen is an Amerasian news anchor of Vietnamese and white American descent currently employed with cable television news channel CNN. She co-anchors CNN Saturday Morning, CNN Sunday Morning, and the weekend editions of CNN Newsroom with T. J. Holmes and is a regular correspondent and contributor for other CNN programming.
Born in Saigon, Vietnam, she left the country in April 1975 to come to the United States. She grew up in Texas and attended the University of Texas at Austin. Nguyen intended to become an attorney, but instead graduated with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism in 1995.[1][2]
You can currently see Betty on CNN Newsroom during the following times (all times Eastern Standard Time):
- 7:00 am - 8:30 am: CNN Saturday Morning/CNN Sunday Morning
- 9:00 am - 9:30 am/10:00 am: CNN Saturday Morning/CNN Sunday Morning
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm: CNN Newsroom (only on Saturday)
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[edit] Fleeing Vietnam
Nguyen was just a little girl toward the end of the Vietnam War when her family fled South Vietnam. From a CNN videotape,[3] she speaks about her father. "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."
"On April 19, 1975, we fled Vietnam, crammed into a packed C-130 cargo plane. It was stepping into the unknown. Nothing was guaranteed except that turning back was not an option. And that meant leaving behind my grandparents…As hard as it was, fleeing not only saved my life, it gave me a new one, in a place called America."
[edit] Board Membership and Affiliations
- Member of the Asian American Journalists Association[4]
[edit] Accolades
[edit] Trivia
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- Betty Nguyen has a little sister who is a figure skater.[6][7]
- In 2007, the Smithsonian Institute recognized Betty Nguyen as the first Vietnamese-American to anchor a national television news broadcast in the United States. [8]
- Ms. Nguyen is a Dallas Mavericks fan. [9]
- Betty also was a television anchor for a Dallas newscast in an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Do, Anh (2004-11-25). "Profile: Betty Nguyen". Nguoi Viet. Retrieved on 2007-03-04.
- ^ a b "Outstanding Young Texas Exes Awards". Texas Exes (2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-20.
- ^ "CNN NewsNight Aaron Brown: Operation Baby Lift, aired April 29, 2005" (transcript). Retrieved on 2006-12-18.
- ^ "CNN Anchors & Reporters: Betty Nguyen". cnn.com (2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-11.
- ^ "2007 Honorees: Betty Nguyen". VANGUSA.ORG (2007). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
- ^ "CNN Saturday Morning News". cnn.com (Dec. 10, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-08-05.
- ^ "CNN Sunday Morning". cnn.com (November 27, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-08-05.
- ^ "CNN Anchors & Reporters: Betty Nguyen". cnn.com (2007). Retrieved on 2007-08-11.
- ^ Haag, Matthew (2006-6-6). "CNN anchor loves her Mavericks". www.txcn.com. Retrieved on 2007-08-11.
