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Sharon Chin

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Emmy Award Winning Reporter, KPIX TV
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Sharon Chin is a general assignment reporter who also profiles Jefferson Award winners for KPIX 5 Eyewitness News. Since she joined KPIX 5 in 1997, Chin has reported everything from fires to features, from politics to perspective pieces, but she feels a special sense of pride bringing viewers the stories of Jefferson Award winners. She herself feels inspired as she shares the stories of our community’s heroes.
Chin admits she didn’t always want to be a reporter. She aspired to become a medicald…

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Pleasanton couple helping prevent youth suicides through nonprofit work

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By Sharon Chin Verified
| Bay Area Daily News
Posted by Sharon Chin on June 24, 2026 Tags: Categories: Bay Area News In 2018, the couple’s son, Alan Hu, was receiving medical care for depression and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. He seemed to be improving, but then, he took his own life. Local News – CBS Bay Area
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Pleasanton couple helping prevent youth suicides through nonprofit work Original

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By Sharon Chin Verified
| KPIX-TV (San Francisco, CA) Verified
More than 6,000 people aged 10 to 24 take their own lives each year in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A Pleasanton couple who have experienced the heartbreak firsthand is now working to bring those numbers down. At a peaceful Pleasanton park, Xiaofang Chen and her husband, Chih-Ching Hu, trained for a marathon and discussed their future after losing their son to suicide. "I am able to do this instead of hiding in my house because I want to carry out a mission.
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Bay Area pastor helped launch safe parking sites at churches for homeless residents

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| Bay Area Daily News
Posted by Sharon Chin on June 17, 2026 Tags: Categories: Bay Area News A Peninsula pastor is one of the first in the Bay Area to help provide a safe place for them while they search for housing in expensive Silicon Valley. Local News – CBS Bay Area
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