GREENSBORO, N.C. — Award-winning broadcast journalist Julie Luck appears weeknights on WFMY News 2 at 5 and 6 p.m. The veteran on-air personality is an ardent supporter of health screenings as a colon cancer survivor.
The Emmy-nominated anchor/reporter spent seven years covering local TV news throughout the Greensboro - High Point - Winston-Salem market before joining WFMY News 2 in 2012. She's won multiple journalism awards during her career and has been voted favorite local newscaster in numerous polls over the decades. Newscasts she co-anchored have won prestigious Emmy awards for breaking news and best newscast. A tidbit of trivia, Julie was chosen by Hollywood producers to play herself as a newscaster in the movie, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Lightning Thief.
A broadcast journalist with nearly 30 years of on-air experience, Julie packed up her belongings many times while climbing the media markets across the country. Julie anchored the weekend news in San Francisco before moving to North Carolina. She also worked in Portland, Oregon, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and Bangor, Maine. Her moving days ended when she arrived in the Triad - the place she loves and calls her true home.
In 2022, Julie was diagnosed with colon cancer after undergoing a routine colonoscopy. After battling the stage 3 disease for many months including surgery, infusions and chemotherapy, she was declared cancer-free. As a survivor, she stresses the importance of health screenings and encourages people to get tested at the recommended age of 45. After she was declared in remission, she scaled back her work duties and told viewers she would no longer anchor the late news in the Triad after nearly 20 years to continue to focus on her health and healing.
Born in Southern California to Chinese and Filipino parents, Julie was raised in Orange County. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree and earned her master's degree in mass communications from Emerson College in Boston. Julie is also a former Miss Asian California and Miss Congeniality.
An avid sports fan, Julie watches college and NFL football games in her spare time. In fact, she was a cheerleader while attending UC Berkeley as well as a pro cheerleader for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. She also enjoys jogging, cooking, traveling and spending quality time with her husband, John, and their four-legged kid Lambert the cocker spaniel.
Julie loves to engage with her social media audience. Be sure to follow her on X (formerly Twitter,) Facebook and Instagram.
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