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Full Lisa Ling Biography
Lisa Ling (Chinese: 凌志慧; pinyin: Líng Zhìhùi) (born August 30, 1973, in Sacramento, California) is an American journalist, best known for her role as a co-host of ABC's The View (from 1999-2002), host of National Geographic Channel's Explorer, reporter on Channel One News, and special correspondent for the Oprah Winfrey Show.
Ling started in television at 16, when she was chosen as one of the four hosts of Scratch, a nationally-syndicated teen magazine show based in Sacramento. At 18, she joined Channel One News as one of their youngest reporters and anchors. Among her roles was war correspondent, including assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan. She has won numerous awards for her reporting. She attended the University of Southern California.
Ling joined The View on August 2, 1999, and left the show towards the end of 2002 to go back to international reporting. She drew fire for her comments after the September 11, 2001, attacks, in which she said that Americans should think about why other people would want to attack them. She accepted an offer to host National Geographic Ultimate Explorer and in 2005 the show moved to the National Geographic Channel with the return of the original name National Geographic Explorer.
Ling once dated Rick Yune and broke off her engagement to media entrepreneur Philip Levine, citing as a reason her constant traveling.
On January 3, 2007, Ling announced her engagement to Chicago-based radiation oncologist Paul Song, 41. They married on May 26, 2007, in Los Angeles. Notable guests included Connie Chung (who is one of Ling's personal heroes) and actresses Kelly Hu and Diane Farr. |
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