Natasha Zouves

Zouves grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1] She and her family have been profoundly touched by her brother having autism.[4] In her high school journalism class, she was inspired by the phrase: "Journalism gives voice to the voiceless."[4][5] She is of Greek and Chinese descent.[6]

She completed a B.A. and B.S. at the University of Southern California,[7][8] where she was a Renaissance Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, with a double major in Broadcast Journalism and Health Promotion & Disease Prevention.[9] As a student at USC, she was part of Annenberg TV News.[9] She also interned for the show Entertainment Tonight.[10]

In 2020, Zouves completed a master of science in biotechnology enterprise and entrepreneurship from Johns Hopkins University.[11]

Zouves worked at San Diego's KGTV (10News-ABC) from 2013 to late in the summer of 2015,[2] as both a reporter and an anchor.[5][12] In July 2015 she was hired to work as a reporter and anchor for San Francisco's KGO-ABC7 News.[2] She began working for this news organization in September 2015,[2] and is currently employed as a reporter and morning anchor.[1] She worked as an anchor doing the weekend newscasts when she first arrived at ABC7 News.[13] She and Reggie Aqui started anchoring the morning show on December 21, 2015.[14]

Zouves sustained a serious concussion shortly after finishing a newscast in 2018, recovering and returning to work in early 2019.[15] She writes of the experience, "I am hopeful that, by opening up about the details of my injury and recovery, I'm able to shed some light and awareness and let others know they're not alone." [16]

In September 2019, Zouves left ABC7 News, having been selected for the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.[17]

In an interview Zouves mentioned how "Social media and the web is such a big part of what we do."[9] She uses Facebook and Instagram to both provide people with more access to the news and also so she can keep in touch with the community.[1] She is involved in the community and has participated and served as an MC in many events, such as kicking off the March of Dimes March for Babies walk in San Francisco.[18]

In 2015, Zouves received an Emmy in San Diego.[1] She received two further Emmys in June 2018, for feature news report, light series and for news writing.[19]

When Zouves worked at KGTV in San Diego, she was voted "Hottest San Diego News Girl" by the radio station 93.3 in late 2014.[2][20]

In November 2014, while she was covering a story, a minor crash occurred immediately behind her as the cameras were rolling.[12]

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