Jo Ling Kent Biography
Jo Ling Kent is an American reporter. She has formerly worked for NBC, Fox Business, and CNN, and is currently a CBS News correspondent. Kent worked as a translator and writer for ABC News Beijing.
Age
Jo was born on 11 May 1984, in San Francisco, California, United States of America. She is 40 years old as of May 2024.
Education
She attended Hopkins High School. She attended Rice University as an undergraduate and later received master degrees in international affairs from the London School of Economics and Peking University. Kent was also a Fulbright scholar at the Peking University Law School Center.
Family- Parents
Kent was born in San Francisco, California to Shean Yen Janice Kent and David Kent, and grew up in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Husband- Spouse
Since 2015, Kent has been married to Scott Conroy, a writer and reporter for HuffPost. The two daughters of the couple were born in April 2021 and in 2018.
Career
Following his graduation from college in 2008, Kent was employed in Beijing by ABC News as a writer and translator. Kent, having graduated from the London School of Economics, would eventually return to Beijing to work as an associate producer for CNN. Working as a field producer during the 2011 Chinese pro-democracy rallies in Beijing on February 27, 2011, Kent spent thirty minutes being held by police in Wangfujing with CNN reporter Eunice Yoon. As they were covering the demonstrations, a cop roughly dragged them into a bank where multiple other journalists were being held, and took Kent’s camera out of her hands.
Kent began working as a field reporter and blogger for Connecticut’s WVIT, an NBC affiliate, in 2012. In 2013, she started working as a technology correspondent for Fox Business Network. Kent worked as an NBC News correspondent from 2016 to 2023. A flash-bang grenade from the Seattle Police Department struck Kent on-air in June 2020 when she was covering the George Floyd protests in Seattle, Washington. She sustained some garment burns from the gadget, but no serious injuries. Kent was given a COVID-19 vaccination in April 2021 while she was pregnant with her second child, as part of a broadcast regarding the vaccine and pregnancy. In 2023, Kent became a part of CBS News.
Net Worth
Kent has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.