Lisa Ling
Lisa Ling | |
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 Lisa Ling after a speaking event at The College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota. | |
| Born | August 30, 1973 |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, Correspondent |
Lisa Ling (Chinese: 凌志慧; pinyin: Líng Zhìhùi) (born August 30, 1973, in Sacramento, California) is an American journalist, best known for her role as a co-host of ABC's The View (from 1999-2002), host of National Geographic Channel's Explorer, reporter on Channel One News, and special correspondent for the Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN.
Biography
Early life and career
Ling started in television when she was chosen as one of the four hosts of Scratch, a nationally-syndicated teen magazine show based in Sacramento. At 18, she joined Channel One News as one of their youngest reporters and anchors. Among her roles was war correspondent, including assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan. She has won numerous awards for her reporting. She attended the University of Southern California.
The View
Ling joined The View on August 2, 1999, and left the show towards the end of 2002 to go back to international reporting. She drew fire for her comments after the September 11 attacks, in which she said that Americans should think about why other people would want to attack them.[1]
National Geographic Ultimate Explorer
She accepted an offer to host National Geographic Ultimate Explorer and in 2005 the show moved to the National Geographic Channel with the return of the original name National Geographic Explorer. She has covered the drug war in Colombia, investigated the notorious MS-13 gang and explored the culture of U.S. prisons.
The Oprah Winfrey Show
Ling has become a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show which has featured many of Ling's investigative pieces, including a report on North Korea. Ling's title is "Oprah Show Investigative Reporter." She also has reported on bride burning in India, gang rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda, child trafficking in Ghana, under cover investigation of Pennsylvanian puppy mills with Main Line Animal Rescue, the immediate aftermath of the hurricane in New Orleans, and the April 2007 Virginia Tech Massacre.
CNN
Most recently, CNN's award winning documentary Planet in Peril featured Ling in the series' second installment, called "Battlelines". She was a correspondent that tracked cruel shark fishing in Costa Rica, elephant poaching in Chad, and gave people an inside look at the battle for the control over oil in Nigeria.
Personal life
Ling graduated from Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California.
Ling once dated actor Rick Yune and broke off her engagement to media entrepreneur Philip Levine, citing as a reason her constant traveling in late 2002.[2]
On January 3, 2007, Ling announced her engagement to Chicago-based radiation oncologist Paul Song, 41.[3] They married on May 26, 2007, in Los Angeles. Notable guests included Connie Chung, who is one of Ling's personal heroes, and actresses Kelly Hu and Diane Farr.[4]. Ling and her husband live in Los Angeles.
In April 2001, she completed the Boston Marathon.[5]
Her sister, Laura Ling, is managing editor of Vanguard at Current TV. As of March 18, 2009 Laura Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee were being detained by North Korea for attempting to film refugees along the China/North Korea border.
References
- ^ "Lisa Ling on The View and Network News".
- ^ Cynthia Wang. "Lisa Ling Breaks Off Engagement".
- ^ "Lisa Ling Engaged to Chicago Oncologist".
- ^ Mary Margaret and Cynthia Wang. "Lisa Ling Marries Her 'Doctor McDreamy'".
- ^ "Lisa Ling: Host, National Geographic Ultimate Explorer".
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