Anna Song Canzano is an American broadcast journalist who hosts That Expert Show in partnership with the Portland, Oregon-based newspaper The Oregonian.
12 Facts About Anna Canzano
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Anna Canzano previously worked at KOIN television in Portland, and at Portland's KATU and Los Angeles' ABC NewsOne and held an internship at KABC-TV in Los Angeles.
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Anna Canzano received the Edward R Murrow Award in Investigative Reporting in 2007 for her piece on Jordaan Clarke, who after undergoing successful heart surgery at Oregon Health and Science University hospital as an infant, suffered prolonged oxygen deprivation causing permanent and profound brain damage.
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Anna Canzano's report revealed that OHSU benefits from rare and unusual protection from the state that caps malpractice damages at $200,000 per incident, a luxury not widely available to other entities in the state of Oregon, according to documents obtained by the reporter.
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Anna Canzano won 1st place in the 2009 and 2008 Associated Press Awards in the Best Hard News Coverage categories, as well as the 2007,2006, and 2005 Best Writing category.
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Anna Canzano has won 1st place awards in Best Investigative Reporting, documentary and feature categories, for Oregon, from the AP.
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Anna Canzano, born in Taiwan, began working as a reporter for KATU in 1999, later becoming one of the station's regular weekend news anchor in 2003.
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Anna Canzano continued serving in that position until December 2016, when she announced on-air and via Twitter that she was moving to another Portland television station.
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In 2021, Anna Canzano was featured as a news reporter in the Peacock television series The Girl in the Woods, a Crypt TV production.
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In 2018, Anna Canzano played a news reporter named "Caitlin Marsdale" in the Netflix series American Vandal.
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Anna Canzano has worked as voice-over talent on a variety projects including Nike's Dream Further campaign for the 2019 Women's World Cup, KFC's Robocop campaign and Lil Dicky's Earth music video, a charity single released on April 19,2019, three days before Earth Day, featuring vocals from more than 30 artists.
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In 2009, Anna Canzano Song co-founded The Bald Faced Truth Foundation, a non-profit, all-volunteer organization that aims to fund extracurricular activities for kids.