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Popular Hawaii News Now morning anchor Grace Lee is set to move to San Francisco’s KPIX. She has accepted a position as a reporter-anchor with the CBS station, making an impressive jump from DMA #72 to #6.
Lee started her career with Los Angeles’ KNBC, before coming to Honolulu’s KGMB as a general assignment reporter in 2002. After a stint with Sacramento’s KCRA, Lee returned to KGMB in 2007 (now a part of Hawaii News Now) and has anchored the station’s “Sunrise” morning newscast.
For her Hawaii News Now bio, Lee wrote, “Everyday, I hope to become better.” That drive has certainly paid off as she prepares to depart for KPIX. The move “speaks volumes about her standing in the broadcast community that a station with the reputation of KPIX would seek her out to be part of their team,” Hawaii News Now News Director Mark Platte wrote in a staff memo, acquired by the Honolulu Star Advertiser.
Lee will stay with “Sunrise” through the November ratings period and begin her new job in December.
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Grace Lee
Sunrise News Anchor
Honolulu, HI
When I told my Korean dad that I wanted to go into TV news, I was met with shocked silence that said volumes. He wanted me to go to law school. Later, he told me that he thought the news was just a phase for me. It's been quite a long a phase.
I can see why he was skeptical, at least at first. I started as an editorial assistant at KNBC in Los Angeles. I was at the bottom of the bottom, ripping scripts, answering phones and begging staffers to help me put a resume tape together. My first break - KGMB 9 News hired me as a general assignment reporter.
Visions of sipping mai tais and getting a tan on the beach quickly pranced through my head. Those thoughts were dashed quickly when I realized how hard it was to be a good reporter, especially when you were on a deadline. There's never enough time in broadcast news. While I struggled, I learned.
I remember waiting for the first sailors to arrive from Operation Iraqi Freedom at Pearl Harbor and seeing the joy and relief as families were reunited. I tracked through Maui's back
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