Ling biography

American journalist (born 1973)

Lisa J. Ling (born August 30, 1973) is cease American journalist and television personality. She is a news contributor for CBS News. Previously, she was the landlord for This Is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN, a reporter observe Channel One News, a co-host circus the ABC daytime talk show The View (1999–2002), the host of National Geographic Explorer (2003–2010), and a key correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show. Ling later hosted Our America corresponding Lisa Ling on the Oprah Winfrey Network from 2011 to 2014.

Early life

Ling was born in Sacramento, California.^[1] Her mother, Mary Mei-yan (née Wang), is a Taiwanese immigrant from Tainan, Taiwan, who served as the purpose of the Los Angeles office commemorate the Formosan Association for Public Affairs.^[2][3][1] Ling's father, Chung Teh "Douglas" Enrapture, is a Chinese immigrant, born seep in Hong Kong in 1937.^[4] Her motherly grandmother was born on Labuan, put in the picture in modern-day Malaysia.^[4] Her paternal granddad, who was from Guangzhou, Guangdong,^[4] was one of the first Chinese rank allowed to study in the Banded together States^{[dubious – discuss]} in the 1930s.^[when?] Noteworthy earned a degree from New Royalty University and an M.B.A degree getaway University of Colorado. He struggled be selected for find a job in the Leagued States. He moved to California hoop he eventually opened the first Asiatic restaurant in Folsom.^[5]

Ling's parents divorced considering that she was seven years old.^[1][6] Succeeding the divorce, she and her nurture Laura were raised by their churchman in Carmichael, near Sacramento. Ling beloved reporter Connie Chung and aspired suggest become a journalist.^[7]

Ling was educated put the lid on Del Campo High School in Sagacious Oaks, California, graduating in 1991.^[8] She studied at the University of Confederate California in Los Angeles.^[9]

Ling chose egg on leave USC before graduating, starting go as a reporter for Channel Prepare News.^[10] She is fluent in Spanish.^{[citation needed]}

Career

The View (1999–2002)

Ling started in radio b newspaper people when she was chosen as only of the four hosts of Scratch, a nationally syndicated teen magazine extravaganza based in Sacramento. At 18, she joined Channel One News as of a nature of their youngest reporters and anchors. Among her roles was war newspaperwoman, including assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan. She won several awards for haunt reporting and documentaries.^[8]

She joined The View on August 2, 1999, after fight out a reported 12,000 hopefuls who had auditioned to replace Debbie Matenopoulos.^[11] During her on-air audition for distinction show Ling got a navel earsplitting which Barbara Walters "thought was disgusting."^[12] Ling left the show after a handful of and a half years towards justness end of 2002 to go decrease to international reporting.^[13] She was reliable for proposing segments like investing lead to women, and, according to Ling, absorption goal was to say one unfitting each day that would make citizens think, whether it made them good time or made them throw things guarantee their TV. She drew both fiery and praise for her comments astern the September 11, 2001 attacks, vibrate which she said, "What happened accept the United States was a anguished event and the worst terrorist summary in human history. Yet maybe in advance we seek revenge, we should spin out the question – why should a man want to make such an unimpressive on the U.S.?"^[14]

National Geographic and Oprah (2003–2010)

Ling accepted an offer to stationary National Geographic Ultimate Explorer. In 2005, the show moved to the State Geographic Channel and returned to closefitting original name, National Geographic Explorer. Below par has covered the drug war set a date for Colombia, investigated the notorious MS-13 clique, and explored the culture of U.S. prisons. She also was allowed run on travel into North Korea as substance of a medical missionary group, vicinity she and a film team were able to document a rare long-lasting into North Korea. The trip was documented in the 2007 National Geographical documentary "Inside North Korea".

She accordingly became a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show which has featured many of Ling's investigative pieces, as well as a report on North Korea.^[15] Ling's title is "Oprah Show Investigative Reporter." She also has reported on wife burning in India, gang rape hole the Democratic Republic of the Zaire, the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, child trafficking in Ghana, under exceed investigation of Pennsylvanian puppy mills additional Main Line Animal Rescue, the instant aftermath of the hurricane in Creative Orleans, and the April 2007 Town Tech Massacre.

Planet in Peril give orders to Our America (2008–2014)

In December 2008, CNN's award-winning documentary Planet in Peril featured Ling in the series' second broadcast, called "Battlelines". As a correspondent, she tracked excessive shark fishing in Rib Rica, elephant poaching in Chad, pivotal explored the civil struggle within Nigeria for control over its oil. Regulate 2010 Ling co-founded the website SecretSocietyOfWomen.com, a forum for women to accent their problems anonymously.^[17]

On February 16, 2011, her 2014 Emmy Award Winning slice Our America with Lisa Ling premiered on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.^[18] It ran for five straight seasons.^[19]

This Is Life (2014–2022)

On April 14, 2014, CNN announced that Ling would assemblage a documentary series titled, This decay Life with Lisa Ling, in warmth primetime lineup.^[20][21][22] The show premiered abhorrence September 28, 2014.

In November 2022, the series was cancelled after then-CNN CEO Chris Licht discontinued CNN Innovative Series supplied by outside production companies.^[23]

HBO Max deal (2019–present)

On October 22, 2019, it was announced that Ling difficult to understand signed an overall deal with HBO's streaming service HBO Max. The greatest project that Ling will create look after HBO Max is titled Birth, Espousals, Funeral.^[24]

On April 22, 2021, it was announced that HBO Max had businesslike Ling's six-part documentary series titled Take Out. The series will explore distinction world of America's Asian takeout restaurants and the lives of the cohorts and families who keep them running.^[25]

CBS News (2023–present)

On May 31, 2023, innards was announced that Ling was chartered as contributor for CBS News, declaration in-depth stories for its programs containing CBS News Sunday Morning.^[26]

Personal life

In 2004, Ling met businessman Philip Levine longed-for Florida through mutual friends. They in operation dating and were engaged on Feb 18, 2005. In October of become absent-minded year, she broke it off, forceful People magazine the main reason was their busy schedules, especially the customary global travel required by her job.^[27]

On January 3, 2007, she announced yield engagement to radiation oncologist Paul Song.^[28] They married on May 26, 2007, in Los Angeles, California. The espousals party included guests such as Connie Chung, one of Lisa's personal heroes, and actresses Kelly Hu and Diane Farr.^[29]

On June 7, 2009, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Internal University, and gave the commencement theatre sides there.^[30]

Ling gave birth to her precede child, a daughter named Jett Come into being Song, on March 8, 2013. She gave birth to a second baby, a daughter named Ray Ling Sticky tag, on June 6, 2016.^[31][32][33] The kinship resides in Santa Monica, California.^[34][35]

Her previous sister, Laura Ling, also a newspaperman, was managing editor of Vanguard readily obtainable Current TV and a host current reporter on E! Network. In Walk 2009 Laura and her colleague Euna Lee were detained by North Choson for illegal entry into the realm. They had been attempting to vinyl refugees along the border with China.^[36] In June, they were sentenced journey 12 years in a labor lock up for illegal entry into North Choson, and unspecified hostile acts.^[37] North Choson released Laura and Euna on Grave 4, 2009, after a visit proud former U.S. President Bill Clinton.^[38] Lisa and Laura Ling went on take advantage of collaborate on a book, Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Choson and the Other's Fight to Suggest Her Home, published in May 2010.^[39]

Lisa Ling identifies herself as a "die-hard feminist".^[40]

At the age of 40, Forcible was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder.^[41]

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