Lisa J. Ling 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, and a host of National Geographic Explorer.
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Lisa J. Ling 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, and a host of National Geographic Explorer. She was also a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show. Ling was born in Sacramento, California. Her mother is a Taiwanese immigrant from Tainan, Taiwan. Her father is a Chinese immigrant, born in Hong Kong in 1937. Ling’s paternal grandmother was born on Labuan, now in modern-day Malaysia. Her paternal grandfather, who was from Guangzhou, Guangdong, was one of the first Chinese students allowed to study in the U.S.
in the 1930s. Ling aspired to become a journalist and idolized Connie Chung. She chose to leave USC before graduating, entering the professional sphere at a young age as a reporter. Ling started in television when she was chosen as one of four hosts of Scratch, a nationally syndicated teen magazine show based in Sacramento. She joined The View on August 2, 1999 after beating out a reported 12,000 hopefuls who had auditioned to replace Debbie Matenopoulos. She left the show after three and a half years towards the end of 2002 to go back to international reporting. In 2010 Ling co-founded the website SecretSocietyOfWomen, a forum for women where they can share their problems anonymously.
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