Cindy Hsu To Anchor WCBS New York 9 A.M. Newscast

Cindy Hsu

Emmy Award-winning anchor and reporter Cindy Hsu has been promoted to anchor of CBS O&O WCBS New York’s weekday 9 a.m. newscasts that will debut on the station and the CBS News New York streaming channel on Monday, Sept. 12.

A 30-year WCBS veteran, Hsu has most recently been the anchor of the station’s weekend newscasts and a weekday reporter.

The newscasts anchored by Hsu will be simulcast on WCBS and CBS News New York from 9 to 9:30 a.m. Then, from 9:30 to 10, the newscast will continue exclusively on CBS News New York.

WCBS is one of several CBS-owned stations that will be adding weekday 9 a.m. newscasts on their broadcast and streaming channels next month. As will be the case in New York, stations will air 30-minute newscasts leading into a half-hour of The Drew Barrymore Show at 9:30 a.m.

Hsu has earned Emmy Awards for stories such as “Smuggled from China,” that exposed the horrific plights of Chinese refugees trying to make it to America. Her most poignant story was the two-part series “Bringing Rosie Home.” Through home videos, she brought viewers to China as she adopted her daughter, Rosie, as a single mother. The series won the New York Associated Press Broadcasters Award for Best Feature and was nominated for an Emmy.

Prior to joining WCBS 30 years ago, Hsu worked as a journalist in Richmond, Va., Green Bay, Wis., and Steubenville, Ohio.

She has served as president of the New York chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association.

Hsu was born in Honolulu and graduated from Virginia Tech.