Kristie Lu Stout (, born December 7, 1974) is an American

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and

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for

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. She currently hosts the program ''Marketplace Asia'' and other feature programs. She previously hosted the daily news show ''

News Stream ''News Stream'' was a global news program on CNN International aired as a weekday prime time show for Asian audiences. The program was filmed in Hong Kong and anchored by Kristie Lu Stout. From 9PM to 10PM Hong Kong time, HKT (UTC+8:00), it cove ...

'', which emphasized news connected with technology, and the monthly news discussion programme, ''On China''.

Early life and education

Stout was born in

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, Pennsylvania, to a

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father and a

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mother; as a result, she was raised in a partially Chinese-speaking household. Her mother was born in

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to parents from

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. Stout grew up in

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, and graduated from Lynbrook High School in

San Jose, California San Jose, officially the City of San José ( ; ), is a cultural, commercial, and political center within Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. With a city population of 997,368 and a metropolitan area population of 1.95 million, it is ...

, where she was a founding member of the Lynbrook Speech and Debate Club, and worked as a model in her teens. She studied journalism as an undergraduate at

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

, writing for '' The Stanford Daily'' and KZSU. In the early 1990s, she traveled to China to learn

Standard Chinese Standard Chinese ( zh, s=现代标准汉语, t=現代標準漢語, p=Xiàndài biāozhǔn hànyǔ, l=modern standard Han speech) is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912–1949). ...

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (THU) is a public university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of China. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and the Double First-Class Constructio ...

, freelance for the ''

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'', and worked at

Sohu Sohu, Inc. () is a Chinese Internet company headquartered in the Sohu Internet Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing. Sohu and its subsidiaries offer advertising, a search engine (Sogou.com), on-line multiplayer gaming (ChangYou.com) and other se ...

. In 1996, she started working as an editorial intern at ''

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'', and in 1997 she graduated with a

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from Stanford.

Career

In 2000, a senior producer for

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invited Stout to work as a "television and dotcom reporter" after listening to her give a speech about the

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at the Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong. Starting from 2001, she hosted the daily '' World Report'' which earned her a 2006 Asian Television Award as Best News Presenter or Anchor when it was still called ''CNN Today''. She occasionally also hosts the talk show ''Talk Asia''. She previously hosted CNN's technology program ''Spark'', their daily "Tech Watch" segment, and the monthly program ''Global Office''. From 2010 to 2018, she hosted CNNI's premier Asia-Pacific Primetime show

with Kristie Lu Stout, until it was cancelled due to budget cuts. Since then she has focused on feature programming including documentaries and anchors special breaking news events. She also fills in for Rosemary Church and Max Foster on their editions of ''CNN Newsroom''.

Personal life

Stout lives in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

with her daughter, Arabella. She is married to the Malaysian Chinese attorney Seung Chong (張偉頌).

References

External links

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Kristie Lu Stout's profile
at CNN.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Stout, Kristie Lu 1974 births American expatriates in Hong Kong American people of Taiwanese descent Television personalities from Philadelphia American women television journalists Living people Stanford University alumni Tsinghua University alumni CNN people Journalists from California American journalists of Chinese descent Journalists from Pennsylvania People from Cupertino, California Lynbrook High School alumni American women journalists of Asian descent 21st-century American women