Lisa Ling has an estimated net worth of $8.5 million
Lisa Ling is an American journalist and writer with an estimated net worth of $8.5 million. She is 5’5″ and weighs 123 pounds. The older of two girls, Lisa J. Ling was born on August 30, 1973 in Sacramento, California and discovered a love for journalism as a teen. By her twenties, she was one of Channel One News’ (a satellite news service) youngest reporters and as the channel’s senior war correspondent, covering global affairs in over two dozen countries including Vietnam, Albania and Iraq. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Lisa worked with prominent news sources such as PBS, Time magazine and ABC News’ Weekend.
From 1999 to 2002, she acted as co-host spot on the successful ABC morning talk show The View, alongside Barbara Walters and Star Jones, gaining overnight recognition as the thought-provoking representative of her generation. After her departure from the talk show, Lisa began hosting National Geographic Explorer where she covered a variety of important topics including the Columbian drug war, US prison life, and an inside look of the very private country of North Korea. In 2011, the host/ reporter began hosting her documentary TV series Our America with Lisa Ling on the Oprah Winfrey Network, which chronicles different aspects of American society.
In early 2009, the TV host’s family made global news when her journalist younger sister Laura Ling was detained by North Korea for illegal entry into the country while attempting to film Chinese border immigrants. Lisa’s campaign for her sister along with the help from former US President Bill Clinton eventually resulted in the release of Laura and in 2010 the two sisters authored the book Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home. On May 26, 2007, Lisa married her longtime love, oncologist Paul Song and they have one child together, daughter Jett Ling Song born in March of 2013.
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