About

Professional Bio

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Globe-Trotting TV Journalist
Julie Tam is a news reporter at the NBC TV station in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, the nation’s 5th largest television market. The native Texan, who is fluent in four languages and has traveled to hundreds of cities on four continents, returned to her home state after more than four years as a news anchor/reporter for WDRB-TV FOX 41 in Louisville, Kentucky. Before that, she was a news reporter and community affairs show producer/anchor at KLTV-TV ABC 7 in Tyler, Texas. Julie landed her first job in TV as a news/special projects producer at News 24 Houston, a 24-hour news channel in her hometown. While earning her bachelor’s degree in Economics at Rice University, she completed a year of internships at Houston’s KTRK-TV ABC 13 and KIAH-TV CW 39 (KHWB-TV WB 39 at the time) and was a producer/host/reporter for two seasons of a community affairs show on PBS Houston.

Awards, Appearances, and Interviews
Over the years, Julie has earned an Emmy nomination for sports news and won several Society of Professional Journalists awards for general news, sports, minority/women’s affairs, and investigative reporting that has uncovered government mistakes and led to policy changes. Julie was inside the Smith County Courthouse (Tyler, TX) in 2005 when a gunman fired dozens of shots into and around the building. Her exclusive, live, eyewitness reports helped earn her station at the time, KLTV, two Emmy awards. Julie also has delivered live reports, done interviews, and made appearances on CNN, ABC, MSNBC, The Weather Channel, truTV (CourtTV at the time), XM satellite, and hundreds of other TV and radio stations across the country about important stories, including the courthouse shooting, the abduction and murder of a young female Wal-Mart employee by a former U.S. Marine in East Texas, Super Bowl weather, and a deadly tornado in Evansville, Indiana. Julie has interviewed national political leaders, celebrities, and professional sports figures.

Business Owner
Julie is the founder/president of TheApplicationMasters.com, which edits written documents, including college application essays, school assignments, resumes, cover letters, marketing materials, and more. With perfect and near-perfect SAT/PSAT scores, Julie’s academic profile and college application essay are published in The Princeton Review‘s book College Essays That Made a Difference (2003), including more than 80 students who were accepted to elite U.S. universities.

Philanthropy and Volunteerism
A daughter of immigrants from Hong Kong, Julie has donated her time and money to many organizations. She supports efforts to help animals, the environment, the poor and disabled abroad, Asian cultural and educational institutions, and churches. Julie volunteers for the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) as national calendar fundraiser committee chair and broadcast mentor. She also volunteers for the Rice University admissions office as a college fair representative and an interviewer of students applying to Rice. In addition, Julie is an Association of Rice Alumni board member, a Dallas-Fort Worth Rice Alumni Advisory Board committee chair, and a member of the National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP). In the past, she has served as Kentucky captain of Rice Alumni Volunteers for Admission, a Nominations Committee member selecting Association of Rice Alumni board members, webmaster and Scholarship Committee chair of the AAJA Texas chapter, Outreach Committee member at Crane House: The Asia Institute, and mentor for Boys & Girls Clubs and Kid Reach.

Extras
Julie is married. She was voted Louisville’s “Hottest Anchor” in 2009 by LEO readers, has been featured in and on the front cover of several publications, and has made numerous public appearances, including emceeing events, moderating and participating on discussion panels, singing and dancing, reading to kids, giving guest lectures, and making commencement speeches for college, high school and middle school. Her TV news insights are published in textbooks. Julie is an award-winning classical soprano singer and danced at the Houston Ballet Academy for 10 years. She speaks English, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Cantonese. She blogs about her travels in Around the World with Julie Tam.