Name Jina You | Role Television personality | |
Jina You is a Canadian television news broadcaster. Born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, she moved to the Lower Mainland soon after and was raised in Maple Ridge, British Columbia. She is a co-winner of a Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Legal Journalism in 2008 for team coverage of the Robert Pickton trial verdict.
She attended high school in Maple Ridge and launched her journalism career at The Maple Ridge News as a reporter and columnist while studying communications and English at Simon Fraser University.
She worked as a producer and reporter for a radio station in Hong Kong before moving into television as a reporter and anchor. She also worked in Singapore covering current affairs while traveling extensively throughout Asia.
You then moved back home and began a new assignment at Vancouver Television as a reporter and weekend anchor for VTV News at Six. Shortly after, she was the morning anchor for VTV Breakfast and stayed on the anchor desk when the station changed over to CTV British Columbia.
During her time at CTV, You spent time as the anchor of CTV News at Six and 11:30, Weekend Edition and as a Senior Reporter.
In August 2013, Jina You took up a position as Communications Director at Magnolia Marketing Communications in Vancouver, B.C.