Vivian Lee joined the New York 1 news team in September 2008 as anchor-reporter. Since that time she broke a story on an FDNY firefighter arrested for allegedly calling in false fires in reaction departmental budget cuts; covered the collapse of investment giant Lehman Brothers; and most recently anchored NY1's continuous live coverage of the mid-air chopper-plane collision over the Hudson that claimed 9 lives in August.
Many of you may already be familiar with Vivian’s work from the years she reported for WNBC/4 New York, where she’d been a General Assignment Reporter for six years. During that time, Vivian showcased live reporting skills and an ability to cover any breaking news story including the tornado that hit Brooklyn, Manhattan’s two deadly crane collapses, former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey's divorce trial and Eliot Spitzer’s sex scandal and eventual resignation.
Vivian’s also worked on more in-depth and investigative stories, including an examination of the rapid disappearance of the saltwater marshes in Jamaica Bay, the declining rate of autopsies in US hospitals and the death of a nursing home patient in Mount Vernon, NY that triggered a state health department probe into an alleged cover-up.
Prior to moving to the city, Vivian anchored and reported for several years in Canada. In Calgary, she was the primetime anchor for three years on A-Channel’s News @ Night program, which won a CANPro Award.
She also filled in as anchor on the breakfast, noon and evening newscasts for CityTV/CablePulse-24 in Toronto, formerly part of the CHUM Network. On 9/11, she was supposed to take up her new posting as the station's parliamentary and federal affairs correspondent in Ottawa, but a lockdown of Toronto roadways kept her reporting on the emergency response in her hometown. After moving to the Hill, she covered the Chretien government's reaction to a post-9-11 world through stories covering the political, economic, military and cultural ramifications of the terror attacks to Canadians. Vivian also covered the opening salvos in the Liberal sponsorship scandal, after then auditor-general Sheila Fraser produced a report questioning Liberal expenses.
As a general assignment reporter, Lee's work has taken her from covering the Walkerton, Ontario e-coli outbreak for CHUM, the high school shootings in Taber, Alberta and the G-7 Summit in Halifax to the Uma Thurman stalker trial in Manhattan. Her work includes reports on affordable housing contracts to landlords in the city's notorious single resident occupancy buildings on the West Side and exploring the impact of the terrorist attacks on ethnic Arab and Muslim communities through domestic anti-terrorism measures. |
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