Cindy Hsu is a
Chinese American television
news reporter
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and anchor at
WCBS-TV
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in
New York City
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.
She currently anchors CBS 2 News at 9am, and she is also fill-in & substitute anchor. At different times, she previously served as anchor for the morning, noon, and 5:00 p.m. newscasts. She previously anchored the weekend evening newscasts solo up until July 2016, when she was replaced by Jessica Moore.
Hsu was born in
Honolulu, Hawaii
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on May 6, 1966. Having joined the station in 1993 as a reporter, Hsu was promoted to weekend co-anchor in May 1994. Hsu was promoted again to morning co-anchor in July 1996, then noon co-anchor in October of that same year.
Prior to joining WCBS-TV, Hsu worked as a reporter and anchor at
WFRV-TV
WFRV-TV (channel 5) is a television station in Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States, affiliated with CBS. Owned by Nexstar Media Group, the station maintains studios on East Mason Street in Green Bay, and its transmitter is located north of Mor ...
in
Green Bay, Wisconsin and for
WTOV-TV
WTOV-TV (channel 9) is a television station licensed to Steubenville, Ohio, United States, serving the Wheeling, West Virginia–Steubenville, Ohio media market, market as an affiliate of NBC and Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox. Owned by Sinclair ...
in
Steubenville, Ohio
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. She began her broadcasting career as an associate producer for WTVR-TV in
Richmond, Virginia.
See also
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Chinese Americans in New York City
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New Yorkers in journalism
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New Yorkers in journalism
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References
External links
official WCBS-TV bioWCBS-TV Homepage
1966 births
Living people
Television anchors from New York City
American journalists of Chinese descent
American women television journalists
Hawaii people of Chinese descent
American women journalists of Asian descent
21st-century American women
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