Kaity Tong (Chinese: 董恺悌; pinyin: Dǒng Kǎitì; born July 23, 1947) is a Chinese-born American broadcast journalist.
Kaity (pronounced "kite-ee")[5] Tong was born in Qingdao, China and arrived in the United States with her family at age four.
Growing up in Washington, D.C., she was inspired to become a journalist by her great-uncle, Hollington Tong, an ambassador to the US from China as well as an acclaimed author.
[2] Her mother worked for the Voice of America as a broadcaster and producer in Washington, D.C.[2] Kaity attended Bryn Mawr College on an academic scholarship.
However, while at Stanford, Tong began her broadcasting career, getting what she thought would be a summer job as morning editor and producer for KPIX-TV All-News Radio in San Francisco.
She moved to the 6 p.m. newscast, rotating the anchor chair with John Johnson alongside Bill Beutel after Roger Grimsby was fired in 1986,[8] while still co-anchoring the 11 p.m. broadcast with Anastos until he left for WCBS in 1989.
In 1984, she appeared as herself, reporting on the defection of the Soviet circus performer played by Robin Williams in feature film Moscow on the Hudson.
She has also played a newscaster in Wolf, City Hall, Marci X, Night Falls on Manhattan, and the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate.
[12] In January 2016, Tong returned to weekdays, co-anchoring a new 6:30 p.m. newscast alongside longtime WWOR anchor Brenda Blackmon.
Tong joined Gloria Steinem and Beverly Sills in receiving the Exceptional Achievement Award from The Women's Project.