Niku Kazori is a news and weather anchor working at ABC7 Los Angeles. She previously worked at KIRO 7 as a news, traffic, and weather anchor. She has also worked at KENS5, WVLT Local 8 News, KCBD TV, and KRIV FOX 26.
Age, Parents, Nationality
Niku is 31 years old as of 2024, she was born on August 23, 1993, in Houston, Texas. Both her parents are Persians who came to the United States when they were young. People normally assume she is from Japan because of her name but she is an American of Persian descent.
Husband, Wedding
Niku announced her engagement on the KENS5 Morning show in August 2019. Her then-boyfriend proposed to her at Grape Creek Vineyards in Fredericksburg.
Niku and her husband Geno got married in a lavish wedding on May 31, 2021. She has to postpone her wedding twice due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Niku’s husband Geno works in the Air Force Special Operations. They were a long-distance couple as her husband lives in different countries due to his work. She lived in Okinawa, Japan with her husband from June 2021 to March 2022.
Niku Kazori Career Timeline
Kazori studied at Cypress Ridge High School and joined Sam Houston State University in 2011. She also graduated from the University of St Thomas with a degree in broadcast journalism in 2015.
Kazori began her career in September 2010 while still a high school student at Cypress Ridge High School at the school’s radio and television station.
She then briefly worked at Cypress-Fairbanks I.S.D as a news anchor between September 2010 and May 2011.
Kazori joined Bearkat Sports Network in September 2011 as a floor director where she covered highlights, interviews, and play-by-play analysis.
In August 2014, Kazori joined KPRC Local 2 as an intern where she helped assignment directors with breaking news stories and also worked closely with reporters and photographers.
In August 2015, she joined KRIV FOX 26 as an intern tasked with covering breaking news sports events, weather, and special interest stories.
For 9 months, Kazori worked as a part-time weather anchor and reporter for KCBD-TV. She then joined WCBD News 2 in August 2016 working as a weather anchor, and weekday traffic reporter.
She moved to Knoxville in October 2016 joining WVLT Local 8 News where she worked as a reporter.
In November 2017, Kazori joined KENS5 where she worked as a Morning Traffic Anchor, Fill-in Anchor, and Multi-Skilled Journalist. She left the United States and joined her husband in Japan in July 2021.
While in Japan, she worked at the Armed Forces Radio Network as a communication consultant.
Kazori came back to the USA and joined KIRO 7 in March 2022 as a news, traffic, and weather anchor and reporter. After working there for almost three years, she announced that she would be working at ABC7 Los Angeles from August 2024.
Niku Kazori Leaving KIRO7
On April 30, 2024, Kazori announced to her viewers and followers that she would be leaving KIRO7. She shared her reasons for leaving in an Instagram post which read.;
Today is my last day at KIRO 7. For once in my life, I’m choosing myself over a job I love, and my health after working long days on a few hours of sleep the past 2 years.
I’m extremely grateful for the endless opportunities I was given here…. From starting off a reporter right when I came back from Japan, to traffic within a couple of months, then weather, and finally anchoring.
At the end…. It was hard to say what my exact “title” was… I was just referred to as the utility player and I loved it. 🙏 I was beyond lucky to work in a challenging news market with smart, dedicated, and experienced Journalists, and I know all these long hard days have prepared me for what’s to come 💜
After four months of being away from the screens, Kazori announced that she would be joining ABC7 in Los Angeles.
