Kristie Lu Stout Biography
Kristie Lu Stout is an American News Anchor/Reporter and correspondent working for CNN in Atlanta, Georgia. She has been working with the station since 2001.
Kristie Lu Stout Age
Lu Stout is 48 years old as of 2022. She was born on December 7, 1974, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Kristie Lu Stout Height
Lu Stout stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches tall.
Kristie Lu Stout Family
Lu Stout has managed to keep her personal life away from the limelight hence she has not disclosed any information about her parents. It is also not known if he has any siblings
Kristie Lu Stout Husband
Lu Stout is married to Seung Chong, a Malaysian Chinese attorney. They tied the knot on September 1, 2001. Seung is a Mergers and acquisition lawyer. The two are blessed with one daughter Arabella, who is 13 years as of 2022. She was born on September 29, 2009.
Kristie Lu Stout’s Net Worth
Lu Stout has an estimated net worth of between $1 Million-$5 Million which she has earned through her successful career as a News Anchor/Reporter and correspondent.
Kristie Lu Stout’s Salary
She earns an annual salary ranging from $ 40,000 – $ 110,500.
Kristie Lu Stout Education
Lu Stout went to Lynbrook high school based in San Jose, California. Later she enrolled at the Stanford campus to learn journalism as an undergraduate before going to china to study standard Chinese at Tsinghua University. In addition to that she graduated from Stanford with a master’s degree in media studies.
Kristie Lu Stout Career
Lu Stout is an award-winning anchor and correspondent for CNN, based in Hong Kong. She reports from the newsroom and in the field on major breaking news stories including US-China relations, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the aftermath of extreme climate events in the region.
She also hosts feature programs for CNN including Tech For Good, a television and digital series on the transformative power of technology. Lu Stout is also a host for Marketplace Asia, a monthly program targeting CNN’s global audience of business leaders.
For CNN Digital and TV, she also researches and hosts in-depth reports on tech titans in Asia and conducts interviews with some of the world’s most innovative thinkers including Jane Goodall, Elon Musk, and Maria Ressa. Based in China for two decades, Lu Stout maintains a focus 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 fresh tensions with a new U.S. administration. She was also instrumental in launching On China, CNN’s first-ever regular series focused on the country — a first by any international TV news network.
Kristie Lu Stout Awards
Over the years, her work has been nominated for multiple categories at the News and Documentary Emmy Awards including the CNN Special Report, Witness to the Pandemic, in 2021. Lu Stout’s program Inventing Tomorrow: Tech in a Time of Pandemic was awarded Best Covid-19 Factual Feature at the 2020 Content Asia Awards. In 2020, she and her CNN Hong Kong colleagues were awarded Best Continuing News Reporting for TV and Video by the Association for International Broadcasting for team coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests.
In 2018, Lu Stout has awarded Best News or Current Affairs Presenter at the Asian Academy Creative Awards. While the news program she conceived and launched in 2010 — News Stream — was awarded Best News Program. Other accolades include multiple honors from the Asia Television Awards and Best News Coverage from the Royal Television Society in 2013.
With over 900,000 fans and followers on social media, Lu Stout believes in engaging with her viewers and makes social media an integral part of her reporting. She also believes in contributing to the debate with viewers off-camera with regular speaking.
Lu Stout also plays an active role in promoting the CNN Freedom Project, the network’s award-winning initiative focused on reporting stories of modern-day slavery. Which includes student outreach in Hong Kong and across Asia as part of #MyFreedomDay. She is also proud to be part of CNN’s Call to Earth Day — a new global initiative to engage students on the need for urgent action against climate change and pollution.
Kristie Lu Stout WIRED magazine
Lu Stout started her career in journalism in San Francisco at WIRED magazine’s online division. She has written on technology for various media publications including the South China Morning Post. Where she founded and wrote the Beijing Byte column. Before her career in journalism, she was an early employee at Beijing-based Internet company Sohu.com and worked for Reuters’ new media team in China.
A proud Asian American, Lu Stout is an Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) lifetime member and mentor. She is also a Correspondent Member and Correspondent Board Governor at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong. Lu Stout regularly leads conversations about current events with students off-camera with speaking engagements at universities across the world.
Kristie Lu Stout CNN
Lu Stout is working at CNN where She works alongside other famous CNN meteorologists, anchors, and reporters including;
- Nia-Malika Henderson
- Melanie Hicken
- Kristen Holmes
- Joe Johns
- Athena Jones
- Jomana Karadsheh
- Randi Kaye
- Alison Kosik
- Kyung Lah
- Ed Lavandera
- MJ Lee
- Oren Liebermann
- Suzanne Malveaux
- Phil Mattingly
Kristie Lu Stout Social Media Platforms
She is active on her social media accounts and is often seen posting on her Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. She has over 25k followers on Instagram, over 55k followers on Facebook, and over 164k followers on her Twitter accounts.
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