Janet Wu (WHDH)

For the Boston area TV reporter for WCVB-TV, see Janet Wu (WCVB)

Janet Wu is a television reporter in the Boston area. She is a general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor for WHDH-TV, NBC's Boston affiliate.

Education and career

Janet was born in Texas and received her bachelor's degree in psychology and philosophy from Yale University in 1988.^[1] She then earned a master's degree at Columbia University's Graduate Schools of Journalism and International Affairs. She is working on another master's degree in literature and creative writing from the Harvard Extension School.

Before joining WHDH-TV in 1996,^[1] Janet was the weekday morning anchor for KIRO-TV in Seattle. Prior to that, she was the weekend anchor and reporter at KGMB in Honolulu, Hawaii. During college, she had worked for WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut.

A published essayist and op-ed contributor, she has lectured at Boston University, Brandeis University, Bentley University, and Emerson College.

Janet is also multilingual, speaking both Chinese and Spanish.

Her 1999 essay "Homeward Bound" was published in The New York Times and appears in expository writing texts including The Norton Sampler and Evergreen: A Guide to Writing with Readings.

In June 2012 she wrote an essay which was published in The Boston Globe entitled "Marina Keegan and the gift of time" reflecting on the tragic untimely death of then recent 2012 Yale graduate, Marina Keegan.

Janet is a frequent emcee for Boston area charities. She is on the Board of Visitors for the Franciscan Hospital for Children and the New England Conservatory of Music. She also works with the American Heart Association, in memory of her father, a heart surgeon.

Films

Actress

• Played a television reporter in the 1995 film Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

Publications

• Fawcett, Susan. Evergreen: A Guide to Writing with Readings, 8th Edition. CENGAGE Learning, 2007. (Janet Wu essay, "Homeward Bound")
• Cooley, Thomas (Editor). The Norton Sampler: Short Essays for Composition. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. (Janet Wu essay, "Homeward Bound")
• Wu, Janet. "Homeward Bound", The New York Times, September 5, 1999.
• Wu, Janet. "Identity Crisis", Charles River Review, Harvard University, Fall 1999.
• Wu, Janet; Tarsy, Andrew. "Dith Pran: Two views of a legend", The Boston Globe, March 23, 2008.
• Wu, Janet, "Marina Keegan and the gift of time", The Boston Globe, June 1, 2012

References

• Janet Wu biography - 7NEWS, WHDH-TV

Further reading

• Friends of Franciscan Hospital for Children 9th Annual Friends Ball, Janet Wu of WHDH, Emcee
• Foundation Gala, November 6, 2009, Janet Wu, Emcee (archived 2011)
• "Profile: Janet Wu", National Association of Asian American Professionals

External links

• Janet Wu biography - 7NEWS
• Janet Wu at the Internet Movie Database