Betty Liu
| Betty Liu | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | journalist, news anchor, author |
| Notable credit(s) | Bloomberg Television's news anchor, author of "Age Smart" |
Betty Liu is a news anchor for Bloomberg Television, a subsidiary of Bloomberg L.P. She counts viewers down to the opening of the market.[clarification needed]
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[edit] Personal life
Liu was born in Hong Kong and was raised in Philadelphia, PA. She attended Central High School and then graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English.
She has been married twice, first to Benjamin L. Walter (who divorced her in 2006[1][2]) and currently to William[3], an Australian news executive whom she met in Hong Kong.[4]
She is a mother of twin boys, Dylan and Zachary, who were born July 21, 2004, by her first husband. They live in Millburn NJ.[5]
She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and speaks some Cantonese.
[edit] Career
Liu jumpstarted her career in financial journalism while acting as the youngest-ever Taiwan Bureau Chief for Dow Jones Newswires.[6][7]
After she left Dow Jones, she worked for several years as the Atlanta Bureau Chief for the Financial Times,[7][8] where she broke stories on top corporate and political leaders such as Coca-Cola ex-chief executive Douglas Daft, former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
Returning to Asia as an anchor and correspondent for CNBC Asia,[7][9] Liu covered the daily market action in the Greater China region for all of CNBC's morning shows, including for CNBC's Squawk Box.[6]
Over the course of her career, she has also written for The Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Philadelphia magazine.
She now works for Bloomberg TV.
[edit] Awards
In 1997, she received a Dow Jones Newswires Award for her coverage of the Asian financial crisis.
Her coverage while at FT of the biggest Fortune 500 companies based in the South (Coca-Cola, Home Depot, UPS, FedEx) earned her a spot on TJFR's "Top 30 business journalists under 30 list"[10] three years in a row (2000–2002). The FT also nominated her for a Pulitzer Prize[6] in 2000 for her series of articles on immigrant labor in the South.
On October 27th, 2011, Betty Liu was the first female (and Asian) to be inducted into Central High School's Alumni Hall of Fame.
[edit] Publications
Liu is also a book author and personal finance expert. She published the financial and lifestyle guide, Age Smart: Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Midlife and Beyond (Prentice Hall, May 2006), which was turned into a month-long weekly series on CNBC Asia called The Business of Life.[11] Her book led her to writing a bi-weekly personal finance column in The South China Morning Post.
[edit] References
- ^ CNBCFix: "CNBC Star Profiles"
- ^ Judicial View: Case View: "Walter v Liu"
- ^ CNBCFix: "CNBC Star Profiles"
- ^ "Balancing Act", Park Place Magazine, March 2011
- ^ "In the Loop with Betty Liu", Newark Star-Ledger, Sept. 21, 2010
- ^ a b c Greppi, Michele. "TV Week: Betty Liu, Host of Bloomberg TV's 'Starting Bell'". TV Week. http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/11/betty_liu_host_of_bloomberg_tv.php. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ a b c "Betty Liu". Financial Times Press. http://www.ftpress.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=495A9D9D-124A-4A32-80EB-7F08D07143DC. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ "Liu Says Despite 'Less Bad News', 'People are Still Worried'". TV Newser. http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/morning_media_menu/liu_says_despite_less_bad_news_people_are_still_worried_116298.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ "CNBC Asia has added Betty Liu (Hong Kong) and Sri Jegarajah (Singapore)". Television Asia. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-147107820.html. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ "Past NewsBios 30 Under 30 Award Winners". NewsBios. http://www.newsbios.com/30under30/Past%20Classes.htm. Retrieved 2009-07-29.
- ^ Liu, Betty. "The Business of Life". CNBC. http://www.cnbc.com/id/20101371.
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