Sharon Tay

About Sharon Tay

Sharon Tay (born October 15, 1966, Singapore) is an Emmy award winning journalist, and former host of two programs on the MSNBC network.

Tay emigrated to the United States at age seven. Her family settled in Connecticut for several years before relocating to the Philippine Islands. She spent her sophomore year at the International School and then returned to the United States to complete her high school education in Massachusetts. Tay attended Boston University where she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Broadcast Journalism with a minor in International Relations.

Her first big break came in Boston where she anchored, wrote, and produced a weekend news show for a local cable station. In 1993, KCCN-TV, now KION in Salinas, California hired Tay for special investigative reports. Soon thereafter, Tribune Broadcasting recruited Tay for its KTLA-5 Los Angeles staff as a general assignment reporter. She went on to become a weekend anchor and ultimately an anchor for the early morning edition of the news.