WPIX Names Betty Nguyen Morning Anchor

Tribune Broadcasting’s CW affiliate WPIX New York (DMA 1) has hired Betty Nguyen to anchor PIX11 Morning News. Nguyen, an award-winning journalist, will anchor the 6-9 a.m. hours of the show each weekday. Nguyen will join WPIX on June 1 and will begin on air mid-month.

Nguyen joins WPIX from NBC and MSNBC where she anchored Early Today and First Look. She was also a correspondent for Today and fill-in news anchor for Weekend Today as well as a contributor to the Today Parenting Team, NBC’s multiplatform community for working moms.

Prior to that, Nguyen was news anchor for CBS This Morning Saturday, anchored the CBS Morning News and was an anchor and correspondent for The Early Show.

Before joining CBS News, Nguyen anchored the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom.

Nguyen’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in South Asia garnered Peabody and Alfred I. DuPont awards. In 2015, Nguyen was inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame. The Smithsonian Institute honored Nguyen in 2007 for her work as the first Vietnamese-American to anchor a national television news program in the United States.

Nguyen graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin, with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. The Betty Nguyen Scholarship in Journalism was created in 2007 at her alma mater to assist students pursuing a career in broadcast journalism.