Lisa Ling
Overview
Chinese American
Chinese Americans represent Americans of Chinese descent. Chinese Americans constitute one group of overseas Chinese and also a subgroup of East Asian Americans, which is further a subgroup of Asian Americans...
journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...
, best known for her role as a co-host of ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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's The View (from 1999–2002), host of National Geographic Explorer
National Geographic Explorer
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, reporter on Channel One News
Channel One News
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, and special correspondent for the Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN
CNN
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. She is the older sister of journalist Laura Ling
Laura Ling
Laura G. Ling is an American journalist, working for Current TV as a correspondent and vice president of its Vanguard Journalism Unit, which produces the Vanguard TV series. She is the sister of Lisa Ling, who is a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show, National Geographic Explorer,...
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Ling was born in Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
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. Her parents divorced when she was 7 years old, and her younger sister Laura was 4. Ling's father Doug is a Chinese immigrant, born in the 1920s; her mother Mary Mei-yan (née Wang) hails from Tainan
Tainan
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, Taiwan
Taiwan
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, and formerly served as the head of the Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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office of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs
Formosan Association for Public Affairs
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Following the divorce, she and her sister, Laura, were raised in the city of Sacramento, California
Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...
by their father.
