【5/25/2021 】CAPA-NoVA Distinguished Chinese American Project
(Introducer: Yuyan Zhou)
凌志慧 （Lisa J. Ling） (born August 30, 1973) is an American journalist, television personality, and author. She is currently the host of This Is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN. Previously, she was a reporter on Channel One News, a co-host on the ABC daytime talk show The View (1999–2002), the host of National Geographic Explorer (2003–2010), and a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show. Ling later hosted Our America with Lisa Ling on OWN from 2011 to 2014.
Ling grew up in Sacramento. At age 16 she became one of the hosts of Scratch, an adolescent news program that was syndicated nationwide. Two years later, she joined Channel One News, a youth-oriented news network shown in many American middle schools and high schools. One of the channel’s youngest reporters, she corresponded from some two dozen countries, becoming the network’s senior war correspondent at age 25. While working for Channel One, Ling attended the University of Southern California.
In 1999 Ling joined The View; she left the show in 2002 to pursue a reporting career. She produced several documentaries, which aired on the Los Angeles public television station KCET. In 2005 she became a cohost of the National Geographic cable television series National Geographic Explorer. In that same year she began working as a special correspondent and investigative reporter for the Oprah Winfrey Show; she continued with the program until it ended in 2011. Ling also hosted Who Cares About Little Girls, a series on the Oxygen Network that examined issues faced by girls throughout the world. In addition, she served as a contributing reporter for the Cable News Network (CNN), and the documentary series This Is Life with Lisa Ling premiered on that channel in 2014. Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood, which she coauthored with Joanne Bubolz Eicher, was published in 2005.
In 2009 journalist Laura Ling, Lisa’s sister, was imprisoned in North Korea for several months, convicted of illegally entering the country, and the two later cowrote Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home (2010).
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