Tricia Ann Takasugi (born March 2, 1961, in

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) is a

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general assignment reporter for

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Fox 11 in

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Biography

Takasugi was born in Oxnard, California, one of five children born to the late

Nao Takasugi Nao Takasugi (April 5, 1922 – November 19, 2009) was an American politician from California, a member of the Republican Party, and a survivor of the Japanese American internment camps. Early life Born and raised in Oxnard, California, Takasug ...

and his wife Judy. She graduated from

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in 1988 with a

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degree in

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.UCLA - Bruin Life Campus Yearbook Class of 1988
URL accessed on April 11, 2010. Takasugi began her broadcasting career as a general assignment reporter at

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in Los Angeles, during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the mid-1990s, Takasugi began working for KTTV FOX 11 as a general assignment reporter. After FOX purchased local station

KCOP-TV KCOP-TV (channel 13) is a television station in Los Angeles, California, United States, serving as the West Coast flagship of MyNetworkTV. It is owned and operated by Fox Television Stations alongside Fox outlet KTTV (channel 11). Both station ...

, Takasugi began reporting for both stations.

Family Guy

The female Asian reporter from Fox's " Family Guy," Tricia Takanawa, is believed to be a parody of her.

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Living people People from Oxnard, California American television journalists American writers of Japanese descent University of California, Los Angeles alumni 1961 births Journalists from Oregon Journalists from California 20th-century American journalists American women television journalists American women journalists of Asian descent 20th-century American women 21st-century American women {{US-journalist-1960s-stub