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Betty Nguyen Biography
Betty Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American working in the field of journalism as a weekday morning news co-anchor for CBS News Miami from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. She came to Miami in March 2023, after spending 6 years as a co-anchor of the PIX11 Morning News at WPIX-TV.
Betty Nguyen Height
Nguyen stands at a rough height of 5 feet and 6 inches.
Betty Nguyen Age
Nguyen is 51 years old. She was born on September 1, 1974, in Saigon, South Vietnam. Nguyen annually celebrates her birthday on September 1st.
Personal Life
Betty Nguyen Relatives and Family
Nguyen has Vietnamese and Scottish American roots. She and her family moved to the U.S. in April 1975 during the Fall of Saigon. Upon moving to the U.S., she was raised in Fort Worth, Texas. Her father was an American serviceman who fell in love with her mother, a Vietnamese college student. Her father is also a veteran who earned a bronze star medal. He passed away in November 2021, as suggested by her Instagram post on November 12, 2020, captioned, “My father was a career serviceman, a bronze star medal recipient, and the embodiment of what service to country truly means…May God bless you and protect you. Rest In Peace Daddy. 💕🇺🇸 #veteransday.” Regardless, she keeps more information regarding her family and relatives away from the public eye. However, we will update this information once it’s available to the public.
Betty Nguyen Spouse and Children
Nguyen tied the knot with AJ DiMatteo in July 2014. He proposed to her in December 2013 during their vacation trip. The couple has two sons, Thomas and Christopher. Thomas was born on December 15, 2015, and is 10 years old. Christopher was born July 10, 2018, and is 7 years old.
Betty Nguyen Education
Nguyen received her high school diploma before enrolling at the University of Texas at Austin. She later graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Journalism. While in college, she was a cheerleader and a member of the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority.
Professional Life
Betty Nguyen Career
Nguyen works as a weekday morning news co-anchor for CBS News Miami from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. She is an award-winning journalist who has worked worldwide as an anchor and reporter for CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC.
Nguyen has established herself as a trusted news authority because of her compassion, warmth, and ability to ask the hard questions while broadcasting the significant events. Over the years, she has interviewed many celebrities and newsmakers, including presidents and the Dalai Lama. Also, she has received many awards, including an Alfred I. duPont Award, two Peabody Awards, and multiple Emmy Awards.
Before her tenure in Miami, Nguyen worked for WPIX in New York City. There, she reported on the MeToo movement, the Capitol insurrection, the 2020 presidential election, the terror assaults in lower Manhattan, and Governor Andrew Cuomo’s resignation. In addition, she received two Emmys for “Best Morning Newscast” and “Social Media Interactivity.”
Nguyen anchored for NBC News before moving to New York. She joined the network in 2013 as an anchor of NBC’s Early Today, MSNBC’s First Look, a fill-in anchor for Weekend Today, and a correspondent for the Today Show. While there, she provided coverage for the French terror assaults, the Boston Marathon bombing, the 2016 presidential election, the war in Syria, the election of Pope Francis, the passing of Nelson Mandela, as well as the Zika and Ebola outbreaks.
Before working for NBC, Nguyen worked for CBS. There, she was anchor of CBS Morning News and CBS This Morning Saturday. Moreover, she was an anchor and correspondent for The Early Show.
While at CBS, Nguyen provided coverage for the Arab Spring, the 2012 presidential election, the demise of Osama Bin Laden, the Royal wedding, the 2010 Gulf oil spill, and the 2011 earthquake in Japan. In addition to her duties, she took on the role of correspondent for Entertainment Tonight in 2012. In this role, she covered celebrity news and the People’s Choice Awards.
Before her tenure at CBS News, Nguyen worked as anchor of the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom. She also anchored for KTVT, the CBS affiliate in Dallas. There, she broadcast many breaking news events, including the Space Shuttle Columbia crisis. Moreover, she was a freelance correspondent for E! Entertainment Television during the 2003 California gubernatorial election. She launched her broadcasting career at KWTX, the CBS affiliate in Waco, Texas, where she was a morning anchor and reporter.
Nguyen was inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2008, she won the Outstanding Young Texas Ex Award. The Smithsonian Institution recognized her as the first Vietnamese-American to anchor a national TV news program in the United States in 2007. She received a regional Emmy Award for “Outstanding Noon Newscast” in 2003 and an Associated Press Award for breaking news coverage in 1998.
Nguyen serves as the co-founder of Help the Hungry, a non-profit organization she co-founded in 2001 to provide humanitarian help to poverty-stricken families. Her alma mater, the University of Texas at Austin, created the Betty Nguyen Endowed Scholarship in Journalism to help students pursuing a career in broadcast journalism.
Betty Nguyen CNN
Before her tenure at CBS News, Nguyen worked as anchor of the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom. She started her career at the network in 2004. There, she contributed to the broadcasts of Hurricane Katrina and the tsunami in South Asia, earning the network prestigious Peabody and Alfred I. duPont awards.
Nguyen anchored CNN’s broadcast of many big news events, including the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti in 2010, Pope Benedict’s first papal visit to the United States, the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, the passing of Pope John Paul II in 2005, the London bombing attacks in July 2005, the Iraqi elections in January 2005, the June 2004 handover of sovereignty to Iraq, and the 2008 presidential election, which won her a second Peabody Award.
In 2009, Nguyen went to Constitución, Mexico, to broadcast Hurricane Jimena. The previous year, she filed reports from Houston and Galveston, Texas, during Hurricane Ike. That same year, she went undercover in Myanmar for an exclusive report series that shed light on a lack of help after Cyclone Nargis claimed the lives of over 140,000 people. In 2007, she traveled to Africa to broadcast the political and economic disasters in Zimbabwe, the presidential elections in Sierra Leone, and apartheid-era prosecutions in South Africa.
Nguyen anchored and reported from the Houston Astrodome, where thousands sought shelter following Hurricane Katrina, in September 2005. There. Later that month, she was assigned to provide coverage for the fatal flooding in her birth country of Vietnam.
Betty Nguyen Net Worth
Nguyen has garnered a net worth ranging from $1 million to $6 million during her successful career as a journalist.
Betty Nguyen Salary
Nguyen receives an approximate annual salary of $110 000, which she earns working as a weekday morning news co-anchor for CBS News Miami
Betty Nguyen Social Media
Nguyen has active social media platforms, i.e., Facebook, X(previously Twitter), and Instagram. She has a following of over 55K on Facebook, a following of over 20K on Instagram, and a following of over 26K on X.