Alison Chiu

Alison Chiu (Traditional Chinese: 趙海珠) is a newsreader (commonly known as anchor) and reporter on TVB News in Hong Kong. After graduating from the University of Hong Kong (major in Japanese Studies in Faculty of Arts) in 2004, she began her career as a reporter at tvbN channel in exTV (now called TVB Pay Vision) first. Her first anchoring in TVB Jade is May 3, 2004 during News Roundup (新聞提要). Within a few weeks, she was promoted by the TVB news management to anchor the 6:30pm News at TVB Jade Channel - arguably the most-privileged post for television journalists in Hong Kong.

The move by TVB news management was somewhat a surprise to Hong Kong television viewers. Traditionally, journalists at TVB news would start from a more junior role of reporting news, and then gradually move up the seniority ladder until he/she would anchor news programmes. The process would normally take a year or a few years at best. However, Chiu was by far more inexperienced, but visually more attractive, than most of her colleagues. Many speculated that unconventional move by TVB news management was driven by Chiu's visual attractiveness, which would in turn drive viewers' figures for the 6:30pm News to an even higher level.

On 16 December 2006, she left TVB to work in a financial institution, reportedly BNP Paribas according to the 27 December 2006 edition of Eastweek magazine.

Starting from 5 February 2007, Chiu also writes a regular column for the free local morning paper [http://www.am730.com.hk am730] .

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