Betty Nguyen Biography
Betty Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American Award-Winning Anchor and Reporter working as a Morning News Anchor at WFOR-TV CBS4 Miami. She anchors the station’s newscasts with Keith Jones and meteorologist Lisette Gonzalez from 4:30 am to 7 am. She assumed this role on February 17, 2023.
Education | Career
Betty graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. While in college she received the Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award in 2008. Notably, the Betty Nguyen Endowed Scholarship in Journalism was created in 2007 at her alma mater to assist students pursuing a career in broadcast journalism.
Career
Nguyen currently works as a morning co-anchor at WFOR-TV CBS4. Before joining her current station she worked across the globe anchoring and reporting for NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC. Nguyen’s warmth, compassion, and ability to ask tough questions have established her as a trusted news authority covering the most important events of our time. She earned two Emmy Awards for “Best Morning Newscast” and “Social Media Interactivity.”
Additionally, she has interviewed countless newsmakers and celebrities, from presidents to the Dalai Lama. Her work has earned her numerous accolades including two Peabody Awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award, and several Emmy Awards. During her tenure at WPIX, she covered the terror attacks in lower Manhattan, the MeToo movement, the 2020 Presidential election, Governor Andrew Cuomo’s resignation, and the Capital insurrection.
Nguyen has also worked for NBC News as an anchor. She joined the network in 2013 as the anchor of Early Today on NBC, First Look on MSNBC, a correspondent for the Today Show, and a fill-in anchor for Weekend Today. During her tenure in this network, she covered the 2016 Presidential election, the Zika and Ebola outbreaks, the French terror attacks, the Boston Marathon bombing, the war in Syria, Pope Francis’s election, and Nelson Mandela’s death.
Before joining NBC, Nguyen was the news anchor for CBS This Morning Saturday. She also anchored the CBS Morning News and was an anchor and correspondent for The Early Show. Nguyen joined CBS News in 2010. During her tenure there, she covered the 2012 Presidential election, the 2011 earthquake in Japan, the death of Osama Bin Laden, the Royal wedding, the Arab Spring, and the 2010 Gulf oil spill.
Before joining CBS News, she anchored the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom. She began her career at the network in 2004. Her contributions to the coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in South Asia garnered CNN’s prestigious Peabody and Alfred I. duPont awards. Additionally, Nguyen also anchored the network’s coverage of numerous major news events, including the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti in 2010.
Prior to CNN, Nguyen was an anchor at KTVT-TV, the CBS affiliate in Dallas. While there, she covered numerous breaking news events, including the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. She also worked as a freelance correspondent for Entertainment Television during the 2003 California gubernatorial election. She began her career as a morning anchor and reporter at KWTX-TV, the CBS affiliate in Waco, Texas.
In 2003, Nguyen won a regional Emmy Award for “Outstanding Noon Newscast” and received an Associated Press Award in 1998 for breaking news coverage. She is also the co-founder of Help the Hungry, a non-profit organization founded in 2001 to provide humanitarian aid to poverty-stricken families.
At CBS4, Nguyen works alongside the following;
- Jim Berry
- Teri Hornstein
- Chelsea Jones
- Keith Jones
- Lauren Pastrana
- Eliott Rodriguez
- Marybel Rodriguez
- Najahe Sherman
- Kim Bokamper
- Harry Cicma
Parents | Family
Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and is of Vietnamese and Scottish-American descent. Her family left Vietnam for the United States in April 1975 during the Fall of Saigon. Her father was an American serviceman who fell in love with a Vietnamese student(her mother). Later on, her father married her mother and gave birth to her.
Betty Nguyen Age
Nguyen is 49 years old as of 2023, she was born on September 1, 1974, in Saigon, South Vietnam, and celebrates her birthday on September 1 every year.
Husband
Nguyen is a married woman and a proud mother. She is blessed with two sons, Thomas born on December 15, 2015, and Christopher who was born on July 10, 2018.
Betty Nguyen Salary
Nguyen’s salary ranges between $20,000 and $55,000.
Net Worth
Nguyen has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million and $5 Million. Her primary source of income is working as a Journalist.
Social Media Platforms
Nguyen is very active on social media i.e. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. She has over 20.1k followers on Instagram, over 57k followers on Facebook, and 29k followers on Twitter.
Betty Nguyen Height
Nguyen stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Quick Facts About Betty
- Age: Betty is 49 years old as of 2023
- Marital Status: She is a married woman but has not shared detailed information about her husband
- Net Worth: Betty has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million and $5 Million
- Salary: She receives an estimated annual salary of between $20, 000 and $50, 000
- Nationality: She is an American
- Height: Betty stands at an average height of 5 feet 6 inches