Kristie Lu Stout Biography
Kristie Lu Stout is an American award-winning journalist and CNN International news anchor. She currently hosts Marketplace Asia as well as other feature programs. She previously hosted the daily news show News Stream, which focused on technology news, as well as the monthly news discussion program On China.
Kristie Lu Stout Age
Stout is 47 years old as of 7 December 2021. She was born in 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Kristie Lu Stout Family – Education
Stout was born in a Chinese-speaking household to a European American father and a Han Chinese mother. Her mother was born in Taiwan to Guizhou parents. Stout grew up in Saratoga, California, and attended Lynbrook High School in San Jose, California, where she was a founding member of the Lynbrook Speech and Debate Club and worked as a model during her adolescence.
As an undergraduate, she majored in journalism at Stanford University, where she wrote for The Stanford Daily and KZSU. She traveled to China in the early 1990s to study Standard Chinese at Tsinghua University, freelance for the South China Morning Post, and work at Sohu. She began working as an editorial intern at Wired in 1996, and in 1997 she graduated from Stanford with a master’s degree in media studies.
Who is Kristie Lu Stout Husband? – Marriage
Arabella, Stout’s daughter, lives in Hong Kong. She is married to Malaysian Chinese lawyer Seung Chong (張偉頌).
Does Kristie Lu Stout speak Chinese?
She also speaks Mandarin, having studied it at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and her breadth of knowledge on Chinese issues makes her uniquely qualified to host CNN’s On China monthly show.
Kristie Lu Stout Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Kristie Lu Stout CNN – Career
She covers major breaking news stories from the newsroom and the field, such as US-China relations, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the aftermath of extreme weather events in the region. She also hosts CNN feature shows, most recently Tech For Good, a television and digital series about the transformative power of technology. Lu Stout interviews entrepreneurs, experts, and businesses developing innovative ways to combat and navigate the climate crisis in her feature show Inventing Tomorrow. Lu Stout also hosts Marketplace Asia, a monthly program that informs CNN’s global audience of business leaders about the new economy and ways of working in the Asia Pacific region, which is driven by innovation.
She also researches and hosts in-depth reports on Asian tech titans such as Samsung Electronics for CNN Digital and TV, and conducts interviews with some of the world’s most innovative thinkers such as Jane Goodall, Elon Musk, and Maria Ressa. For the past two decades, Lu Stout has been based in China, where he has focused on how developments in China are dramatically changing the world for all of us. From anchoring CNN’s groundbreaking “Eye on China” series in 2004 to covering the Trump-Xi Summit in Beijing, to reporting on new tensions with a new US administration, Lu Stout has remained dedicated to reporting on China. She was also instrumental in the launch of “On China,” CNN’s first-ever regular series devoted to the country – a first for any international television news network.
At the 2020 Content Asia Awards, her program “Inventing Tomorrow: Tech in a Pandemic” was named Best Covid-19 Factual Feature. The Association for International Broadcasting awarded her and her CNN Hong Kong colleagues Best Continuing News Reporting for TV and Video in 2020 for their coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests. Lu Stout was named Best News or Current Affairs Presenter at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in 2018, and News Stream, the news program she created and launched in 2010, was named Best News Program. Other honors include multiple Asia Television Awards nominations and the Royal Television Society’s Best News Coverage Award in 2013 for coverage of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
Lu Stout, who has over 850,000 fans and followers on social media, believes in engaging with her viewers and incorporates social media into her reporting. She also believes in contributing to the debate with viewers off-screen by making regular speaking and moderating appearances, and she is well known for her style of stimulating frank and lively conversations.
Lu Stout also promotes the CNN Freedom Project, the network’s award-winning initiative focused on reporting stories of modern-day slavery, including student outreach in Hong Kong and across Asia as part of #MyFreedomDay. She is also honored to be a part of CNN’s Call to Earth Day, a new global initiative aimed at educating students about the importance of taking immediate action to combat climate change and pollution. She began her career as CNN’s technology correspondent, reporting on emerging technology trends and conducting regular interviews with industry leaders and pioneers such as Tim Berners-Lee, Susan Kare, and Jimmy Wales.