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In April of 2019, Nguyen moved from California to New York to accept a new role as an investigative and consumer correspondent for NBC News. Since joining NBC News Vicky has been featured on The Today Show, 3rd Hour Today, Nightly News with Lester Holt, NBC News Now and MSNBC, among others.

Vicky is a national Emmy award-winning reporter, recognized for outstanding investigative reporting for her series exposing Sysco Corporation's widespread practice of storing perishable food in unrefrigerated outdoor public storage sheds. She was honored with the 2019 duPont-Columbia award for "Drivers Under Siege" about the rise in violent attacks on Bay Area bus operators. Her work has also been recognized with the dupont-Columbia award, Scripps Howard award, Gerald Loeb Award, National Press Club award, Society of Professionals Journalists Sigma Delta Chi Award, 3 Gracie awards, 2 Clarion awards, 14 regional Emmy awards and 3 regional Murrow awards.

She returned to her Northern California roots in January 2007, and started working with NBC Bay Area as a freelance reporter. Shortly thereafter she was hired full-time, and worked as a special assignment reporter for KNTV. Nguyen was eventually promoted to anchor/senior investigative reporter with KNTV. While in that role, she worked closely with the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. According to her official NBC Bay Area bio,

Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam. At a very young age, she and her parents fled Vietnam as refugees. After two days, two nights and a Thai pirate attack on the open ocean, their boat landed on the coast of Malaysia, where Nguyen and her family stayed in a refugee camp for 14 months. At age 2, Nguyen immigrated into the United States. A family in Eugene, Oregon sponsored her family to America. She spent most of her childhood in San Jose and Santa Rosa, and became a U.S. citizen at age 10. Nguyen went on to attend college at the University of San Francisco on an academic scholarship. During her time at the university, Nguyen was a member of the cheer squad and served as president of her student body. In 2000, she graduated as valedictorian of her class with a degree in communications and a minor in biology.

Vicky Nguyen (born circa 1979) is a 14-time Emmy award-winning Vietnamese-American investigative journalist working with NBC News in New York. Nguyen joined NBC News in April 2019 as the Investigative and Consumer correspondent. Her reporting has been seen on The Today Show, 3rd Hour Today, Nightly News with Lester Holt, NBC News Now and MSNBC.