Kristie Lu Stout (, born December 7, 1974) is an American
journalist
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and
news anchor
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for
CNN International
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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 Asia. The program was filmed in Hong Kong and anchored by Kristie Lu Stout. From 9PM to 10PM HKT (UTC+8:00), it covered Asia's increasing inf ...
'', which emphasized news connected with technology, and the monthly news discussion programme, ''On China''.
Early life and education
Stout was born in
Philadelphia
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, Pennsylvania,
to a
European American
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father and a
Han Chinese
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mother; as a result, she was raised in a partially
Chinese
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* Chinese people, people of Chinese nationality, citizenship, and/or ethnicity
**''Zhonghua minzu'', the supra-ethnic concept of the Chinese nation
** List of ethnic groups in China, people of va ...
-speaking household. Her mother was born in
Taiwan
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to parents from
Guizhou
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.
Stout grew up in
Saratoga, California
Saratoga is a city in Santa Clara County, California. Located in Silicon Valley, in the southern Bay Area, its population was 31,051 at the 2020 census. Saratoga is an affluent residential community, known for its wineries, restaurants, and attra ...
and graduated from
Lynbrook High School
Lynbrook High School (also referred to as Lynbrook or LHS) is a co-educational, public, four-year high school located in the West San Jose neighborhood of San Jose, California. It was founded in 1965 and graduated its first class in 1968.
Lynbr ...
in
San Jose, California
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, 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
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, writing for ''
The Stanford Daily
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'' and
KZSU
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KZSU broadcasts in stereo at 90.1 MHz FM with an effective radiated power of 500 watts. The station is owned b ...
.
In the early 1990s, she traveled to China to learn
Standard Chinese
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at
Tsinghua University
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, freelance for the ''
South China Morning Post
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'', and worked at
Sohu
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.
In 1996, she started working as an editorial intern at ''
Wired
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'', and in 1997 she graduated with a
master's degree
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media studies
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from Stanford.
Career
![KristieSK](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/KristieSK.jpg)
In 2000, a senior producer for
CNN
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invited Stout to work as a "television and dotcom reporter" after listening to her give a speech about the
internet in China
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at the
Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong
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.
Starting from 2001, she hosted the daily ''
World Report'' which earned her a 2006
Asian Television Award
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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
News Stream
''News Stream'' was a global news program on CNN International aired as a weekday prime time show for Asia. The program was filmed in Hong Kong and anchored by Kristie Lu Stout. From 9PM to 10PM HKT (UTC+8:00), it covered Asia's increasing inf ...
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
Rosemary Church (born 10 November 1962) is an Australian CNN International news anchor. Based at the network's world headquarters in Atlanta, she anchors the 2 to 4 a.m. ET edition of ''CNN Newsroom''. She previously worked as a reporter and ne ...
and
Max Foster
Max Foster (born 30 October 1972) is an anchor and correspondent for CNN, based in London. He hosts the 1pm GMT edition of CNN Newsroom.
Education
Foster spent most of his childhood in Wiltshire, England where he attended The Ridgeway School ...
on their editions of
''CNN Newsroom''.
Personal life
Stout lives in
Hong Kong
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with her daughter, Arabella. She is married to the Malaysian Chinese attorney Seung Chong (張偉頌).
References
External links
*
Kristie Lu Stout's profileat CNN.com
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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