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Never in her biographys???HMMM?
found information about her teen kids show job in a PDF titled:
chineseamericanheroes.org
SCRATCH was the name of the kids show
why never inher bios???
http://www.chineseamericanheroes.org/heroes/2012/Lisa%20Ling.pdf
Name in English: Lisa Ling
Name in Chinese: 凌志慧
Name in Pinyin: Líng Zhìhùi
Gender: Female
Birth Year: August 30, 1973
Birthplace: Sacramento, California
Television Journalist, Author
Education: High School Diploma, Del Campo High School, Fair Oaks,
California, 1991; no degree ,History, University of Southern
California
Awards: 2008, Dove Real Beauty Award, Dove (Unilever) & American
Women in Radio and Television; 2008 Hildegard of Bingen
Woman for the World Award, Saint Scholastica Academy;
Nominated for four daytime Emmy Awards (2000-2003) for The
View.
Nominated for an Emmy Award (2008) for Outstanding
Informational Programming (National Geographic Explorer) of the
episode, “Inside North Korea.”
Contributions: Lisa Ling has been working in television for 12 years. At age 16, she
auditioned for and was chosen to be one of four hosts of “Scratch,”
a nationally syndicated teen magazine TV show out of Sacramento.
By the time she was 18, Ling had become one of the youngest
reporters for Channel One News, the network seen in middle and
high schools across the country. Despite working more than 40
hours a week, she also attended the University of Southern
California, even making the Dean’s list in her freshman year.
However, due to her numerous commitments, she left college in
her junior year.
Before the age of 25, Ling became Channel One’s senior war
correspondent. She hunted down cocaine processing labs in the
Colombian jungle, conducted interviews with members the FARC
guerrilla group in Colombia, covered the civil war in Algeria, the
refugee crisis in Albania, and shared tea with the Dalai Lama. In
1996, she participated in a joint investigation with Time Magazine
into a Russian company accused of smuggling nuclear weapons.
She was the first American television reporter to interview the
company’s owner. She reported from more than two dozen
countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Colombia, Algeria,
Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Japan, India and Iran. She also
produced eight documentaries for PBS, several of which won
awards.
For the Oprah Winfrey Show, Ling has been sent to cover the
Lord's Resistance Army and AIDS orphans in Uganda, bride
burning in India, and gang-rape in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo.
In 1999, she became co-host of Barbara Walter’s hit daytime talk
show, The View. During her time there the show won its first
daytime Emmy. Ling contributed the perspective of someone in
her twenties on women’s issues to the show.
She left The View at the end of 2002 to return to international
reporting and in 2005 became the first woman to host National
Geographic's flagship Explorer series, the first female host in its
twenty-year history. For the program, she investigated the
increasingly deadly drug war in Colombia, examined the complex
issues surrounding China's one-child policy, and explored the
phenomenon of female suicide bombers in Chechnya and Israel's
occupied territories. She also explored the hidden and dangerous
culture inside American prisons as well as MS-13, an organization
dubbed by law enforcement as "the world's most dangerous gang."
She also co-authored a National Geographic book entitled,
"Mother, Daughter, Sister, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood."
Ling is a member of The Committee of 100, a national nonpartisan organization composed of Chinese Americans who have
achieved positions of leadership in the United States.
In April 2001, Ling fulfilled her late Uncle John's dream by
running and completing the Boston Marathon with a time of 4:34
while raising over $100,000 and awareness for pediatric cancer
and the "Ali & Dad's Army" foundation.
External Links:
http://www.committee100.org/aboutus/member_bio.php?member_id=155
http://www.goldsea.com/Personalities/Linglisa/linglisa.html
http://tv.yahoo.com/lisa-ling/contributor/39224/bio
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3080431/
http://www.savvymiss.com/no-cache/ambitious-women/ambitious-womenarchive/article/lisa-ling-award-winning-journalist-and-champion-for-women-and-children942.html