Betty Nguyen

(CBS)  Betty Nguyen joined CBS News as a correspondent on March 11, 2010. Nguyen also anchors the "CBS Morning News," reports regularly for "The Early Show" and contributes to the Division's other broadcasts and platforms.

Nguyen served as anchor of the weekend morning edition of "CNN Newsroom" since 2004. During that time, she anchored the network's coverage of major news events, including the earthquakes in Chile and Haiti in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI's historic visit to the United States in 2008, the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, the death of Pope John Paul II in April 2005 and the London bombing attacks in July 2005. She also anchored portions of CNN's coverage of the tsunami disaster in South Asia, the Iraqi elections in January 2005 and the June 2004 handover of sovereignty to Iraq.

Nguyen traveled to Constitución, Mexico, in 2009 to cover the damage caused by Hurricane Jimena. In 2008, she reported from Houston and Galveston, Texas, during Hurricane Ike. Also that year, she went undercover in Myanmar for a series of exclusive reports that exposed a lack of aid two months after Cyclone Nargis killed more than 140,000 people. Nguyen traveled to Africa in 2007 to cover the presidential elections in Sierra Leone, the political and economic crises in Zimbabwe and apartheid-era prosecutions in South Africa.

In September 2005, Nguyen reported and anchored from the Houston Astrodome, where thousands sought shelter after Hurricane Katrina. Later that month, she went on assignment in her birth country of Vietnam to cover the deadly flooding caused by annual monsoons.

Before joining CNN, Nguyen was an anchor at KTVT-TV, the CBS affiliate in Dallas (1998-2004), where she covered numerous breaking news events, including the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Nguyen began her career as a morning anchor and reporter at KWTX-TV, the CBS affiliate in Waco, Texas (1996-98).

In 2003, she won a regional Emmy Award for "Outstanding Noon Newscast," and received an Associated Press Award in 1998 for breaking news coverage. In 2007, the Smithsonian Institute recognized her as the first Vietnamese-American to anchor a national television news broadcast in the United States.

Nguyen graduated magna cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. She lives in New York City.

[christopherschaefer]

Regarding Ms. Nguyen's comment on Saturday, December 10th's Early Show, concerning the viral video broadcast pertaining to the 2 year old 'rapper'...

Ms. Nguyen's comment giving credit to the child's "genes" for his ability to perform so well...please tell me she is not that naive or that unintelligent.

If the same child had the ability to do complicated math problems, would she say the same? Do we see my point?

Considering CBS is a national broadcast, I strongly suggest Ms. Nguyen think before she speaks. Racial stereotyping, besides being somewhat ugly, can also be a reflection of the organization that signs her paycheck...

Christopher L. Schaefer