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Pauline Chiou '88
Anchor/Reporter, CBS4 News
Boston,
MA, on March 16, 2006
 Pauline
Chiou is a weekend evening anchor with co-anchor
Mike Hydeck, and she is a general assignment reporter
for CBS4 News during the week. She joined CBS4
in February 2003 after working as an anchor and
reporter for KPRC-TV in Houston, Texas.
Originally from Middletown, New York, Chiou began
her broadcast career as an intern at WABC-TV in
New York City and landed her first on-camera assignment
at WTZA-TV in Kingston. Her next move brought her
to Massachusetts as an anchor and reporter for
WWLP-TV in Springfield.
In September 1995, Chiou traveled with the Massachusetts
Air National Guard on a peacekeeping mission to
Bosnia. Her series of reports on the A-10 fighter
pilots earned her an Associated Press Award for
Best Feature Reporting.
Chiou graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor
of Arts degree in History. She caught the journalism
bug while conducting research for a history paper
on the Holocaust. For the paper, Chiou personally
interviewed Holocaust survivors of the Lodz ghetto
in Poland. That experience made Chiou realize she
wanted to tell other people’s stories. She
went on to receive a master’s degree in Broadcast
Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism
at Northwestern University.
An avid athlete, Chiou has run several marathons
in Houston, Chicago and Austin, Texas. She has
also completed several bike rides to raise money
for Multiple Sclerosis research, and in the summer
of 2000, she cycled a thousand miles in the Midwest
with disabled athletes for World TEAM Sports. She
also loves to travel and has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro,
hiked the ancient Inca ruins at Machu Picchu in
Peru, sailed down the Yang-tze River in China and
visited Kosovo in former Yugoslavia. She speaks
Spanish and Taiwanese and currently lives in the
Greater Boston area.
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