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North Korea released Laura and Euna on August 4, 2009 after a visit from former U.S. President ].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20080930/NEWS-US-KOREA-NORTH/ | title = North Korea Pardons U.S. Journalists as Clinton meets Kim | author = Jack Kim |publisher=Reuters |date=August 4, 2009|accessdate=November 3, 2014}}</ref> Laura and Lisa went on to collaborate on the first book either has had published, ''Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home'', published in May 2010.<ref>Ling, Laura and Ling, Lisa (2010). ''Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home''. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-200067-5.</ref> North Korea released Laura and Euna on August 4, 2009 after a visit from former U.S. President ].<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20080930/NEWS-US-KOREA-NORTH/ | title = North Korea Pardons U.S. Journalists as Clinton meets Kim | author = Jack Kim |publisher=Reuters |date=August 4, 2009|accessdate=November 3, 2014}}</ref> Laura and Lisa went on to collaborate on the first book either has had published, ''Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home'', published in May 2010.<ref>Ling, Laura and Ling, Lisa (2010). ''Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home''. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-200067-5.</ref>


Dr. Paul Song, railing against the relationship between politicians and corporations before Sanders' supporters on Wednesday, said, "Medicare-for-all will never happen if we continue to elect corporate Democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us." Dr. Paul Song was criticized for controversial comments he made before Sanders' supporters at a rally in Washington Square Park, said, "While I agree with Secretary Clinton saying 'Medicare-for-all will never happen' if we have a president who never aspires for something great than the status quo ... if we continue to elect corporate Democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us." Many commentators saw the comment as ] considering Song's use of the word "whore" to indirectly characterize Clinton's association with the private sector.


Ling identifies herself as a "die-hard feminist".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/25/living/lisa-ling-sugar-baby-essay/ |title=The dangerous seduction of the rich boyfriend |publisher=''CNN'' |date=September 26, 2014 |first=Lisa |last=Ling |accessdate=September 27, 2014 }}</ref> Ling identifies herself as a "die-hard feminist".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/25/living/lisa-ling-sugar-baby-essay/ |title=The dangerous seduction of the rich boyfriend |publisher=''CNN'' |date=September 26, 2014 |first=Lisa |last=Ling |accessdate=September 27, 2014 }}</ref>

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Lisa Ling
Ling in 2007
Born (1973-08-30) August 30, 1973 (age 51)
Sacramento, California, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Southern California (did not graduate)
OccupationJournalist
Years active1991–present
Notable credits
Spouse Paul Song ​(m. 2007)​
Children1
FamilyMary & Doug Ling (parents), Laura Ling (sister)
Websitelisaling.com

Lisa J. Ling (born August 30, 1973) is an American journalist, television presenter, and author. She is currently the host of This is Life with Lisa Ling on CNN. She is the former host of Our America with Lisa Ling on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, former co-host of ABC's The View (from 1999–2002), host of National Geographic Explorer, reporter on Channel One News, and special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN. She was the host of reality television show The Job. Ling is the older sister of journalist Laura Ling.

Early life

Ling was born in Sacramento, California. Ling's father Doug is a Chinese immigrant, born in China during the 1920s; her mother Mary Mei-yan (née Wang) is a Taiwanese immigrant from Tainan, Taiwan, and formerly served as the head of the Los Angeles office of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs. Her grandfather, who was from Guangzhou, Guangdong, was one of the first Chinese students allowed to study in the United States in the 1930s. He received his graduate degree from New York University and an M.B.A degree from University of Colorado. He struggled to find a job in the United States and eventually opened the first Chinese restaurant in Folsom, California.

Ling's parents divorced when she was 7 years old and her younger sister Laura was only 4 years old. Following the divorce, she and her sister were raised in Carmichael, California, a city outside of Sacramento, by their father. Ling aspired to become a journalist and idolized Connie Chung. She graduated from Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California in 1991 and then attended the University of Southern California. Ling is fluent in Spanish.

Career

The View

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 won several awards for her reporting and documentaries.

She joined The View on August 2, 1999 after beating out a reported 12,000 hopefuls who had auditioned to replace Debbie Matenopoulos, but left the show after three and a half years towards the end of 2002 to go back to international reporting. She was responsible for proposing segments like investing for women, and, according to Ling, her goal was to say one thing each day that would make people think, whether it made them cheer or made them throw things at their TV. She drew both fire and praise for her comments after the September 11, 2001 attacks, in which she said, "What happened to the United States was a catastrophic event and the worst terrorist attack in human history. Yet maybe before we seek revenge, we should ask the question – why should anyone want to make such an attack on the U.S.?"

National Geographic and Oprah

Ling accepted an offer to host National Geographic Ultimate Explorer. In 2005, the show moved to the National Geographic Channel and returned to its original name, National Geographic Explorer. Ling has covered the drug war in Colombia, investigated the notorious MS-13 gang, and explored the culture of U.S. prisons. She also was allowed to travel into North Korea as part of a medical missionary group, where she and a film team were able to document a rare look into North Korea. The trip was documented in the 2007 National Geographic documentary "Inside North Korea".

She then became 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.

Planet in Peril and Our America

In December 2008, CNN's award winning documentary Planet in Peril featured Ling in the series' second installment, called "Battlelines". She was a correspondent that tracked excessive 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.

On February 16, 2011, her show Our America with Lisa Ling premiered on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network. It ran for five seasons.

This Is Life

On April 14, 2014, CNN announced that Ling will host a new documentary series, This is Life with Lisa Ling, to join its primetime lineup. The show premiered on September 28, 2014.

Personal life

On January 3, 2007, Ling announced her engagement to radiation oncologist Paul Song. They married on May 26, 2007, in Los Angeles, California. The wedding party included guests such as Connie Chung, one of Lisa's personal heroes, and actresses Kelly Hu and Diane Farr. On June 7, 2009, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from National University, after giving the commencement speech there. In October 2012 Ling announced on Anderson Cooper's talk show that she and her husband were expecting their first child, a baby girl. She gave birth to a daughter named Jett Ling Song on March 8, 2013. The family resides in Santa Monica, California.

Her younger sister, Laura Ling, also a journalist, was managing editor of Vanguard at Current TV and currently a host and reporter on E! Network. In March 2009 Laura and her colleague Euna Lee were detained by North Korea for illegal entry into the country. They had been attempting to film refugees along the border with China. In June, they were sentenced to 12 years in a labor prison for illegal entry into North Korea, and unspecified hostile acts.

North Korea released Laura and Euna on August 4, 2009 after a visit from former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Laura and Lisa went on to collaborate on the first book either has had published, Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home, published in May 2010.

Dr. Paul Song was criticized for controversial comments he made before Sanders' supporters at a rally in Washington Square Park, said, "While I agree with Secretary Clinton saying 'Medicare-for-all will never happen' if we have a president who never aspires for something great than the status quo ... if we continue to elect corporate Democratic whores who are beholden to big pharma and the private insurance industry instead of us." Many commentators saw the comment as sexist considering Song's use of the word "whore" to indirectly characterize Clinton's association with the private sector.

Ling identifies herself as a "die-hard feminist".

She has been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder.

Published works

  • Ling, Laura; Ling, Lisa (2010). Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home. William Morrow. ISBN 0062000675.

References

  1. ^ Taub, Daniel (2009-08-06). "Journalists arrive in U.S. following imprisonment". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
  2. Hsu, Jenny W. (2009-04-03). "Lawmaker urges ministry to help captive journalist". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2010-03-22Template:Inconsistent citations{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  3. Castaneda, Erin (2008-04-04). "Journalist (Lisa) Ling shares her own story". Lawrence Journal-World. Retrieved 2009-08-20Template:Inconsistent citations{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  4. Taub, Daniel (2009-08-06). "Journalists arrive in U.S. following imprisonment". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2009-08-07Template:Inconsistent citations{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  5. "Expo 2010: Chinese American Reporter Recounts Her Family's Journey in America". March 9, 2010. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  6. Castaneda, Erin (2008-04-04). "Journalist (Lisa) Ling shares her own story". Lawrence Journal-World. Retrieved 2009-08-20.
  7. "Expo 2010: Chinese American Reporter Recounts How She Started Her Career". YouTube. February 10, 2010. Retrieved September 27, 2014.
  8. Archived 2007-11-30 at the Wayback Machine
  9. "Investigative journalist Lisa Ling coming to campus on Wednesday". Daily Trojan. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  11. TV Guide June 26-July-2 1999. pg. 5.
  12. "Lisa Ling on The View and Network News". Archived from the original on 2007-10-17.
  13. Archived 2009-03-05 at the Wayback Machine
  14. Inside North Korea (DVD). National Geographic. 2006.
  15. "OWN Sneak Peek: Our America with Lisa Ling". Oprah.com. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  16. Nededog, Jethro (March 18, 2014). "OWN Cancels 'Our America With Lisa Ling'". The Wrap. Retrieved September 27, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  17. "CNN Announces Primetime Lineup, New Shows With Mike Rowe, Lisa Ling, John Walsh". Hollywoodreporter.com. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  18. "This Is Life with Lisa Ling Comes To CNN". CNN. September 3, 2014. Retrieved September 27, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  19. Gilman, Greg (September 3, 2014). "CNN Launching Lisa Ling Documentary Series 'This Is Life'". The Wrap. Retrieved September 27, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  20. "Lisa Ling Engaged to Chicago Oncologist". People.com. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  21. Mary Margaret and Cynthia Wang. "Lisa Ling Marries Her 'Doctor McDreamy'". People.com. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  22. "Journalist Lisa Ling Addresses San Diego Graduates". National University. 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-07-30. Retrieved 2010-08-28. {{cite journal}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2009-08-25 suggested (help); Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  23. Huffington Post (2012-10-24). "Lisa Ling Pregnant: Former 'View' Co-Host Expecting Baby Girl". Huffington Post. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  24. Olivia Barker, USA TODAY (8 March 2013). "Lisa Ling gives birth to baby girl Jett". Usatoday.com. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
  25. "Lisa Ling's new Santa Monica house". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 27, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  26. "HOME GREEN HOME: INSIDE LISA LING'S ECO-CHIC ABODE". The Chalkboard. March 4, 2013. Retrieved September 27, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  27. Michael Y. Park (2009-03-23). "Lisa Ling's Sister Arrested in North Korea". People. Retrieved 2009-03-23.
  28. "North Korea jails US journalists. Eric Marchel ff". BBC News. 2009-06-08. Retrieved 2009-06-08. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  29. Jack Kim (August 4, 2009). "North Korea Pardons U.S. Journalists as Clinton meets Kim". Reuters. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  30. Ling, Laura and Ling, Lisa (2010). Somewhere Inside: One Sister's Captivity in North Korea and the Other's Fight to Bring Her Home. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-200067-5.
  31. Ling, Lisa (September 26, 2014). "The dangerous seduction of the rich boyfriend". CNN. Retrieved September 27, 2014. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
  32. "Lisa Ling Reveals Surprise Diagnosis of ADD at age 40 - ABC News". Abcnews.go.com. Retrieved 3 November 2014.

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Preceded byDebbie Matenopoulos The View co-host
1999-2002 		Succeeded byElisabeth Hasselbeck

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