Yurie Omi (近江 友里恵, Ōmi Yurie; born July 26, 1988)
is a Japanese former announcer and news anchor for NHK. She left NHK in March 2021. She was famous for being the co-host of NHK's morning talk show Asaichi as well as its geographical television series Bura Tamori.
Omi was born in Kochi Prefecture, Japan and raised in Tokyo, Japan.
Her father is a police officer.
Her younger brother is a doctor.
The beginning of Omi's media experience was early. At age 10, she joined Yomiuri Shimbun as a child journalist.
She was involved in researching school-related topics and writing short columns on the newspaper until she was an 11th grader.
Although her team members consisted of only those ranging from elementary school children to high school students, they did most of the tasks by themselves.
They faxed presentation papers to parties, made appointments with the people they needed to interview to get necessary information, and wrote whole stories about what they investigated.
During her membership, she interviewed Japanese tennis pro Kimiko Date and members of Shiki Theatre Company, one of Japan's most prominent musical troupes.
When she attended junior high school, she joined the school broadcasting club to try to improve her speech skills since she felt not being a good public speaker at that time.
Her experience in this club gave her the confidence to make a speech in public.
When she was a high school student, she won with teammates of the broadcasting club an award of the 52nd NHK Cup National High School Broadcasting Contest in 2005.
In March 2012, Omi received the bachelor's degree from Waseda University in Tokyo.
Her major was political science, and her researches included sport and city planning.
She studied at Public Policy Research Seminar, or PPRS, the laboratory run by Koichiro Agata.
Her university friends said that she was, far from a shallow wannabe anchorwoman, at the top of PPRS consisting of such students that were hoping to be big-name company employees or top-notch consultants.
Although she was a cheerleader of the university for the first year of her college life, she gave up the cheerleading activities because of her wish to focus on studying.