Michelle Yu (born in New York City, New York) is an American journalist who is a news anchor for NY1 News in New York City and the author of two novels.
Yu graduated from Manhattan College in 2001 [1] with a degree in broadcast communications.
Yu began her career as a writer for The Journal News and Sports Illustrated for Kids .
In 2003 Yu joined College Sports Television. In 2009, she joined SportsNet New York as an anchor and reporter. [2] [3] In 2019, she joined NY1 News as a news anchor.
She is the co-author of two novels with Blossom Kan. [4] [5] China Dolls (2008) [6] tells the story about the lives of three Asian American professional women in New York City [7] [8] and was described by The Bloomsbury Review as a "Chinese American installment of the Sex in the City genre." [4] Young, Restless, and Broke (2010) relates the struggle of an actress in Los Angeles. [9]
In 2014, she married Colombian financier Rafael Eduardo Romero while she was a sports anchor for SportsNet New York. They had first met at a tennis tournament in 2008 when she was first starting to work for SNY. [13]