Nancy Chen

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Nancy Chen
Born
Nancy Chen

Texas[1]
Alma materUniversity of Southern California[1]
OccupationNews anchor and television journalist
Years active2010–present
EmployerCBS News[1]

Nancy Chen is an American television journalist and a current correspondent with CBS News in New York.[2]

Early life[]

Nancy Chen was born in Texas and was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma.[1] She attended Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics, studied Chinese at Peking University in Beijing, and graduated as a Trustee Scholar from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles with a degree in international relations.[1][2]

Career[]

Early career[]

Chen began her career as a print reporter writing for the Tulsa World for three years.[1] During college, she worked as a web producer at KABC-TV in Los Angeles and was involved in production for NBC Sports in Beijing during the 2008 Summer Olympics.[1]

She began her broadcast journalist career at KSBY in San Luis Obispo, California as a multimedia journalist. She subsequently worked for WHDH-TV in Boston, Massachusetts where she covered the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the 2013 EF5 Moore tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, and the Boston Marathon bombing.[1][2]

Chen then joined WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. in 2017 as a weekday evening anchor.[3] She hosted a reoccurring franchise titled "Hero 24/7" that highlighted volunteers in the Washington, D.C. community.[4] She won two Emmy Awards from the National Capital division of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences during her time at WJLA-TV, one of which was for coverage of the 2017 Congressional baseball shooting.[5][6]

Current[]

In 2021, Chen joined CBS News as a New York-based correspondent after working as a correspondent with the organization's Newspath division since February of 2020.[7][8] She has covered national stories including the Kyle Rittenhouse criminal trial, the Waukesha Christmas parade attack, the 2022 Bronx apartment fire, and the Omicron wave in New York City.[2][9][10][11]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Nancy Chen Joins CBS News Newspath as a New York-based Correspondent". ViacomCBSPressExpress.com. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d "Nancy Chen CBS Biography". CBSNews.com. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  3. ^ "WJLA Hires Veteran Anchor Nancy Chen". TVNewsCheck.com. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  4. ^ "WJLA Hero 24/7". WJLA.com. Retrieved January 26, 2022.
  5. ^ "60th Capital Emmy Awards and Nominations of 2017" (PDF). CapitalEmmys.tv. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  6. ^ "62nd Capital Emmy Awards and Nominations of 2019" (PDF). CapitalEmmys.tv. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  7. ^ "Nancy Chen". News.Yahoo.com. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  8. ^ "Jeff Pegues, Kris Van Cleave, Nancy Chen Earn New Roles at CBS News". AdWeek.com. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  9. ^ "At least five dead, more than 40 injured in Waukesha, Wisconsin Christmas parade". CBSNews.com. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  10. ^ "Space heater to blame in deadly NYC fire". CBSNews.com. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  11. ^ "Health officials say Americans should stay vigilant as COVID cases rise, Omicron continues to spread". CBSNews.com. Retrieved January 27, 2022.


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