Anna Canzano Biography
Anna Canzano is a journalist who works in broadcast in the United States. In Portland, Oregon, where she resides, she is employed by KOIN-TV. Her previous experience includes working for KATU in Portland and ABC NewsOne in Los Angeles, in addition to an internship at KABC-TV in Los Angeles.
Anna Canzano Age
She was born in 1976 in Taiwan. She is about 46 years old.
Anna Canzano Early Life
She spent her first two years of life in the United States, but she was born in Taiwan. When she was two, her family moved to the United States. Anna attended Parkrose High School and grew up in the Parkrose neighborhood in northeast Portland. The majority of her childhood was spent assisting her mother in the day-to-day operations of their Sandy Boulevard motel, which consisted of 28 individual units.
Anna received a full tuition scholarship to Pepperdine University, where she studied broadcast journalism and international business and ultimately graduated with two degrees.
Anna Canzano Husband
John Canzano, the man she has devoted her life to loving, is her husband. In July of 2010, the pair tied the knot. In addition to hosting the afternoon drive show on 750AM radio, John is a nationally recognized and award-winning sports columnist for The Oregonian. After being married, she decided to give up the name Anna Song and adopt the name Anna Canzano for her professional life.
Anna Canzano Career
In 1999, Canzano began his career in journalism by joining KATU as a reporter. Later on, in the year 2003, she was hired by the station to work as a regular weekend news anchorperson. She continued to work in that capacity until December 2016, when she made the announcement on-air and via Twitter that she would be moving to a different television station in the Portland area. In January of 2017, KOIN made the announcement that it had hired Canzano away from KATU.
Jordaan Clarke, who had open-heart surgery when he was an infant, was the subject of an article that she wrote in 2007. The operation took place at the hospital affiliated with Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). subsequently, suffered from severe oxygen deprivation for an extended period of time, resulting in permanent and extensive brain damage.
According to the findings of Canzano’s report, Oregon Health and Science University receives an exceptional level of protection from the state. According to what she said, the state places a limit of $200,000 per incident on malpractice damages. According to the documents that the reporter was able to obtain, the luxury did not appear to be widely available to other entities within the state of Oregon. In the latter part of the year 2008, she conducted an investigation on the difficulties faced by a homeless high school student.
Anna Canzano Awards
Throughout her career, Canzano has been awarded a plethora of distinctions. One of these honors is the Best Investigative Reporting Award from the Oregon Association of Broadcasters for the year 2012, which was also one of these accolades. In addition to that, she was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting in the year 2007.
Canzano, who had previously been nominated for a regional Emmy Award a total of 16 times, was finally victorious in the “Human Interest” category in 2008. Canzano was the recipient of a second Emmy Award in 2012, this time for her work in the “Crime Reporting” category. Canzano’s extensive reporting on the murders of two girls from Oregon City, Miranda Gaddis and Ashley Pond, and the investigation into their deaths helped KATU win an Edward R. Murrow Award in 2003 for Continuing Coverage. The award was given in recognition of KATU’s efforts in this category.
In 2005, she wrote and contributed to the documentary “Casualties of War,” which she also co-produced. As a result of it, she was presented with an award for news writing from the Associated Press (AP) that placed her in first place. In addition, Canzano was awarded first place in the Best Hard News Coverage category of the Associated Press Awards in both 2009 and 2008, as well as in the Best Writing category in 2007, 2006, and 2005. In addition to that, the Associated Press has given her first place prizes in the categories of Best Investigative Reporting, Best Documentary, and Best Feature for the state of Oregon.
Anna Canzano Net Worth
Her estimated net worth range between $500k-$1 million.