Vivian Lee
Vivian Lee joined Time Warner Cable’s New York 1 News team in September 2008 as the cable news outlet’s weekend anchor and early morning news reporter. Since joining NY1, she has anchored hour-to-hour, breaking and uninterrupted live coverage of the Times Square foiled bomb plot, as well as the mid-air collision of a tourist helicopter and small plane over the Hudson River that claimed nine lives in 2009. Ms. Lee's field work includes coverage of the housing and mortgage crisis, security and anti-terrorism measures, city council hearings and budgets, elections, transportation and weather incidents; one of her first reports for NY1 was the investigation of a city firefighter charged with calling in false alarms to allegedly save his firehouse, which was threatened by the city's budget axe. Many New Yorkers would be familiar with her work on NBC New York, where she was a General Assignment Reporter for six years. During that time, she covered the Brooklyn tornado of 2008, Manhattan’s two deadly crane collapses on the East Side, the fatal collision of the Staten Island Ferry at St. George Terminal, the racially charged murder trial of John White in Riverhead, the Uma Thurman stalker trial, the assassination of NYC Councilmember James Davis in 2003, as well as the discovery of a full-grown Bengal tiger in a Manhattan housing project (with a full-grown caiman crocodile as its roommate). Her in-depth reporting and investigation of such topics as the death of a Mount Vernon nursing home patient and illegal tenants in the city's notorious single-room occupancy buildings have triggered local and state government investigations. Her work has included an examination of the impact of policies formed in a post-9/11 world on ethnic Arabs and Muslims in the city and region, the decline of the Jamaica Bay saltwater marshes, and the spiralling rate of hospital autopsies. After completing her Bachelor of Journalism degree at Carleton University, Ms. Lee reported for CJOH TV in Ottawa as a student reporter, and quickly moved on to anchor A-Channel’s News @ Night in Calgary, a start-up of Craig Broadcasting. The show earned a prestigious CAN-Pro Award. Shortly after, she moved to CHUM Television in Toronto, and filled in as anchor of the breakfast, noon, and evening newscasts on CityTV/CablePulse-24 in Toronto, as well as reporting in Canada's largest city. Ms. Lee earned the coveted position of parliamentary and federal affairs correspondent in Ottawa, and was scheduled to begin at her new post on Sept 11, 2001 when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, another into the Pentagon, and a fourth in Pennsylvania. While on Parliament Hill during the year following 9/11, her reporting focused on the government of Canada’s response to 9/11 in the form of major policy changes, and their legal, political, and socio-economic effects. Ms Lee's reporting on federal affairs included coverage of annual budgets, cabinet shuffles, intra-party affairs, cases before the Supreme Court of Canada and press briefings by government and opposition parties, federal ministries and agencies. Ms. Lee has always given back to the community by contributing her time as an emcee for annual fund raising galas, as a video producer, and as a volunteer for various projects and programs for: The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, The Korean American Family Service Center in Queens, Asian Professional Extension, The Coalition of Asian American Children and Families, Project by Project, The Korean American Officers’ Association of the NYPD, Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, Asian Women in Business, the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Initiative, The American Heart Association, Asian Women in Business, and The Urban League. She is a member of the NYC Press Club, and the Asian American Journalists Association. |
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