Renee Chou is a three-time, Emmy Award-winning anchor and reporter for WRAL-TV News. She’s anchored WRAL’s Morning News -- the Triangle's most-watched morning newscast – for 10 years, the longest run of any female morning news anchor at WRAL. You can start every weekday morning with her on WRAL from 4:30 to 7 a.m. and from 7 to 8 a.m. on Fox 50. Renee also anchors WRAL’s hour-long Noon Newscast. In total, she anchors 4.5 hours of live TV every weekday with energy, credibility and authenticity. Renee joined WRAL in October 2004 as a general assignment reporter. She served as the weekend morning anchor and weekend evening anchor before being promoted to anchor WRAL's flagship morning newscast in 2014.

Renee won a Regional Emmy for General Assignment Reporting in 2015. Her coverage of Hurricane Sandy earned her a Regional Emmy in 2014, as well as the distinction of “Best Weather Reporting” from the NC Associated Press Broadcast Awards. She won her first Emmy in 2013 for special coverage on a high-profile murder trial. Renee was also a Regional Emmy nominee for Best Morning Newscast in 2020 and 2023. Her reports have garnered awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas, Iowa Associated Press Broadcasters Association and Missouri Broadcasters Association.

Renee's most memorable assignments include covering the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro; the Final Four in Indianapolis when Duke won the National Championship in 2015; and hurricanes along the Outer Banks (Earl, Irene and Sandy.) Renee has also anchored WRAL’s live coverage of the annual Raleigh Christmas Parade for the past decade. And in January of this year, readers of Wake Living Magazine voted Renee as “Best Local TV Personality.”

Prior to WRAL, she worked as an anchor/reporter for KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and KOMU-TV in Columbia, Missouri. Renee earned her broadcast journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She enjoys connecting with the community throughout the year by emceeing fundraisers, festivals and charity events, as well as mentoring young women and student journalists.

Originally from Michigan, Renee is happy to call Raleigh home with her husband, Mike, and daughter Elsa.