Kristie Lu Stout
Kristie Lu Stout (born December 7, 1974 ) is an American journalist and television presenter. Lu Stout is best known as the presenter of the daily news program on the US news channel CNN International .
Life and work
Lu Stout attended Lynbrook High School in San Jose, California . After that, she earned a bachelor's and a master's degree in "Media Studies" ( Media Studies ) of Stanford University . She also studied Mandarin at Tsinghua University in Beijing . She started her journalism career in San Francisco, where she worked for the online department of Wired magazine .
Lu Stout has been working as a journalist for the US news channel CNN since 2001. Together with her co-host Hugh Riminton , Stout has been presenting the weekday news program CNN Today , which is recorded in CNN's Hong Kong studio , and the monthly Global Office format since 2005 . Previously, as a technology correspondent, she created feature films (often known as Tech Watch ) for various programs. In this capacity, she interviewed numerous personalities from the fields of computers and the Internet, such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates , Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos , eBay CEO Meg Whitman and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales . Her technical reports include, among other things, reports on the beginnings of Web 2.0 and Wikipedia (2003), and she was the first CNN reporter to report from "inside" on the Second Life platform .
As a correspondent, she reported from Seoul, Silicon Valley (technology trends), Munich (Soccer World Cup 2006), Tokyo (on the occasion of the historic first visit by a Chinese head of state, Wen Jiabao, to Japan), Russia (G8 meeting 2006), Vietnam ( on the occasion of Vietnam's entry into the WTO ). For CNN's "Eye on China" series, she reports regularly from Shanghai parallel to her main activity in Hong Kong.
Lu Stout has also worked for the online department of the Reuters news agency and for various newspapers in the past. For example, she wrote the Beijing Byte column for the Chinese daily newspaper South China Morning Post . As a lecturer, she lectured on journalism at the Universities of Beijing, Hong Kong and the National University of Singapore.
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- Biography on a website of CNN (Engl.)
- Articles Kristie Lu Stout in a magazine of Stanford University (Engl.)
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lu Stout, Kristie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 7th December 1974 |