Chenue Her

Chenue Her is a Minnesota native and is overjoyed to be living out his childhood dream anchoring FOX 9 Morning News. He’s always wanted to be a part of the team ever since the "Wake up with FOX 9" jingle got stuck in his head as a kid. 

It all comes full circle, anchoring the morning news his parents have watched every day for most of his life. 

Journalism has taken him all over the country. Before returning home to the Twin Cities, he anchored Good Morning Iowa at WOI in Des Moines for three years. Chenue became the first Hmong man to rise to the anchor desk in America when he landed in Iowa. In those three years, his reporting won several Iowa Broadcast News Association awards and a Midwest Regional Emmy Award. He was nominated for a regional Emmy for his anchoring. 

Chenue spent several years in the south before coming back to the Midwest. As a reporter at WXIA in Atlanta, he covered several major stories, including the tragic Atlanta spa mass shooting in 2021, the historic 2020 Presidential Election, and the COVID pandemic. Chenue was actually in Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s office when the first COVID case in the state was announced and he went live on air minutes after. He went to Atlanta by way of WVEC in Norfolk, Virginia. In Virginia, Chenue helped lead coverage of the Virginia Beach municipal center mass shooting in 2019 as it broke into national headlines. He also spent years there chasing major hurricanes, as well as becoming well-sourced within state and local politics. The East Coast was Chenue’s second stop of his career. He left Minnesota right after college in 2013 and joined KEZI in Eugene, Oregon, to take his first reporting job. 

Throughout his journalism career, Chenue has been an active member of the Asian American Journalist Association (AAJA) and a fierce advocate for representation in journalism. In 2022, the organization recognized him with the AAJA National Community Impact Award. Volunteering and community work are important to Chenue, so no matter where he’s lived, he’s found ways to get involved like working with Iowa State University journalism students and also helping teens with learning disabilities explore careers in TV news in the Des Moines metro.

Although he’s shared stories all across the country, Chenue’s story originates in east St. Paul where he grew up and later went on to graduate from Mahtomedi High School (Go Zephs!). He’s one of five kids raised by Hmong refugee parents, so they’re all proud of their Hmong roots and culture. All five kids are tight-knit, so the family group text is always going! Most of the conversations revolve around food, our dogs, and memes. 

His first love is always his family, but a close (and very close) second are the Vikings and Timberwolves, then pho, then sneakers, and then the sport of Uno (yes, the card game). 

Three pillars have led Chenue back home to Minnesota: "East side pride", "SKOL", and "Make mom and dad proud."