Kurtis Ming Biography
Kurtis Ming is an American Eleven-time Emmy Award-winner working for CBS13 News as a consumer investigative reporter and anchor. He joined the station in 2003.
Kurtis Ming Age / Birthday
Ming is 48 years old as of 2023. He was born in 1974, in South San Francisco in the United States.
Kurtis Ming Height / Measurements
Ming is of average body stature and stands at an approximate height of 5 feet 7 inches.
Kurtis Ming Partner
Ming manages to keep information regarding whether he is married or not away from the public. However, we will update information about his spouse once it’s available.
Kurtis Ming Kids / Children
Ming manages to keep information regarding whether he has any kids away from the limelight. However, we will update this information about his children once it’s available.
Kurtis Ming Family / Relatives
Ming manages to keep information regarding his parents away from the limelight. Additionally, he shares no information regarding whether he has any siblings or not. We will update this information once it’s available.
Kurtis Ming Career
Ming works as a consumer investigative reporter and anchors CBS13 News at 4 and 5:30 p.m. Before beginning the “Call Kurtis” consumer advocacy program which has assisted viewers to get back millions of dollars and resolve thousands of disputes since 2006, he held the position of general assignment reporter and weekend anchor.
He’s covered everything from the Scott Peterson murder trial to the gubernatorial campaign of a porn star since he started working in Sacramento. He has revealed problems in state and local government resulting in the passing of new laws and investigation of unscrupulous businesses. From Pakistan, he reported on terrorism, traveled to Mexico to assist viewers with a timeshare refund, and tensions between North and South Korea from the DMZ.
From an assignment on the Gulf Coast, he has reported Hurricane Katrina to trips to the shores of Phuket, Thailand, the tsunamis that affected each of those countries, natural disasters, and Samoa tracking progress. He experienced a major earthquake in New Zealand, Christchurch, and found himself reporting for a national audience back home during his international travels in September 2010.
Ming a 42-time regional Emmy Award nominee got honored by the Radio and Television News Directors Association, with a California Journalism Award and The National Press Club. The state got rid of its problem-plagued doctor’s diversion program after exposing how the California Medical Board allowed doctors with drug and alcohol problems to continue treating patients. He revealed the flaw in a state website revealing the personal information of tens of thousands of unemployed Californians.
Ming was chosen by the Radio Television Digital News Foundation in 2015 to travel to Europe and meet with top-level German business, political, and media figures and visit the EU and NATO in Belgium. In 2013, he traveled with a delegation of American journalists to Pakistan as an East-West Center fellow. He graduated from the FBI’s Citizens’ Academy in 2011. He was honored as the Consumer Journalist of the Year in 2016 by the Consumer Federation of California.
His broadcast career began at WERS-FM in Boston in 1996 as a radio reporter and anchor. At Dateline NBC, KCOP-TV in Los Angeles, and KGO-TV in San Francisco he worked behind the scenes. Prior to that, he reported for KRCR-TV in Redding, California, and KTVN-TV in Reno, Nevada. from Emerson College in Boston he has a degree in broadcast journalism.
The Loma Prieta Earthquake in 1989 made him realize the importance of journalists and that’s how he became one. He enjoys a good Japanese Steakhouse and loves the beauty in Northern California, the microclimates, and the fact you can be from the beach to the snow in 2-hours.
Facebook is his favorite social media platform. If he was to work elsewhere it will surely be involving world travel. At CBS13/CW31 his most memorable story he’s e covered is Covering the aftermath of Katrina was an amazing assignment for him.
Kurtis Ming Salary
Ming receives an annual income ranging between $30,000 and $90,000.
Kurtis Ming’s Net Worth
Through Ming’s career as an investigative reporter and anchor, he has been able to accumulate a net worth that ranges between $1 Million and $ 5 Million.
Kurtis Ming CBS 13 News
Ming works at CBS 13 where he works with his fellow colleagues who are anchors, reporters, and meteorologists and they include;
- Tony Lopez
- Steve Large
- Tracy Humphrey
- Darla Givens
- Sara Hodges
Kurtis Ming Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram
Ming is active on his social media accounts. He has about 11k followers on his Facebook Page, about 3593 followers on his Twitter account, and around 1076 followers on his Instagram account.