Kristie Lu Stout Biography

Kristie Lu Stout is a CNN anchor and journalist located in Hong Kong who has won several awards. She frequently travels out into the field to anchor and report on big breaking news events like the protests against the Hong Kong extradition law, the terror attacks in New Zealand, North Korea's escalating weapons tests, and the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan. She has also hosted feature series on technology for CNN Digital and TV, as well as conducting in-depth interviews with some of the world's most inventive minds, such as Jane Goodall, Ai Weiwei, and Elon Musk. Lu Stout has spent the last two decades in China, focusing on how China's changes are affecting the rest of the globe. Lu Stout has stayed devoted to reporting on China since anchoring CNN's pioneering Eye on China series in 2004 and covered the Trump-Xi Summit in Beijing. She also had a key role in the introduction of On China, CNN's first-ever regular series dedicated to the country, as well as the first by any international television news network. At the Asian Academy Creative Awards in 2018, Lu Stout was named Best News or Current Affairs Presenter, while the daily news show she hosted, News Stream, was named Best News Program. For her coverage of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, she has received numerous awards from the Asia Television Awards and the Royal Television Society. Lu Stout, who has over 850,000 friends and followers on social media, believes in interacting with her audience and incorporates social media into her reporting. She also believes in participating in the argument with viewers off-camera by commenting and moderating on a frequent basis, and she is well-known for her manner of provoking open and vibrant discussions. Lu Stout also utilizes her platform to elevate the voices of women, speaking and reporting on female accomplishment as well as the specific problems that women and girls confront throughout the world on a regular basis. Lu Stout also promotes the CNN Freedom Project, the network's award-winning project dedicated to exposing stories on modern-day slavery, which includes student outreach in Hong Kong as part of #MyFreedomDay. Lu Stout began her journalism career at the online branch of WIRED magazine in San Francisco. She has written on technology for a variety of outlets, including the South China Morning Post, where she established and published the Beijing Byte column. She was an early employee at Beijing-based Internet startup Sohu.com and worked for Reuters' new media unit in China before starting her journalism career. Lu Stout is a Chinese-American of European ancestry. She graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's and master's degree and went on to Tsinghua University in Beijing to study advanced Mandarin Chinese.

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