Kristie Lu Stout Biography
Kristie 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 news stories including US-China relations, the rise of AI, and the aftermath of extreme climate events in the region. She also hosts feature programs for CNN including Tech For Good, a series on the transformative power of technology, and Marketplace Asia, CNN’s monthly business program.
Kristie Lu Stout Age
Lu Stout is 49 years old as of 2023. She was born on December 7, 1974, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kristie Lu Stout Height
She stands at a height of 1.78 m (5 feet 10 inches).
Kristie Lu Stout Nationality
She is American by nationality.
Kristie Lu Stout Education
Stout grew up in Saratoga, California, and graduated from Lynbrook High School in San Jose, California, where she was a founding member of the Lynbrook Speech and Debate Club and worked as a model in her teens. In 1992, she joined and studied for a B.A. in Psychology at Stanford University, writing for The Stanford Daily and KZSU. After graduating from Stanford University with a B.A. in Psychology in 1996, she enrolled for a Master’s degree in Media Studies at the same university graduating in 1997. Stout then traveled to China to study advanced Mandarin Chinese at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
Kristie Lu Stout Parents
Kristie was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to a European-American father Li Gang, and a Han Chinese mother. As a result, she was raised in Saratoga, California in a partially Chinese-speaking household. Her mother was born in Taiwan to parents from Guizhou.
Kristie has a sister. She was brought up alongside her sister whose name she hasn’t revealed. On August 27, 2015, she posted a photo of her and her sister on her Instagram page with the caption,” My sister, baby cousin, and our moms. Back in the 80s. #ThrowbackThursday #TBT #SuccessPerm #MyAsianAmericanStory”.
Kristie Lu Stout Husband
Is Kristie Lu Stout married? Yes, Kristie is married to the Malaysian-Chinese attorney Seung Chong (張偉頌). The couple got married in 2001, and they live in Hong Kong with their 15-year-old daughter, Arabella.
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Kristie Lu Stout CNN
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 news stories including US-China relations, the rise of AI, and the aftermath of extreme climate events in the region. She also hosts feature programs for CNN including Tech For Good, a series on the transformative power of technology, and Marketplace Asia, CNN’s monthly business program.
For CNN Digital and TV, she 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, Lu Stout has remained committed to reporting on the country. 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.
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, including 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.
To ring in 2023, she launched CNN’s first New Year’s Eve Live special from Asia with special appearances from K-pop supergroup NCT-127 among many other top performers and talent from across the region.
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. As a Correspondent Board Governor at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Lu Stout helps organize impactful discussions, documentary screenings, and award-winning photo exhibitions. She also enjoys coaching students and early-career journalists through CNN Academy, the Stanford Alumni Association, and the Asian American Journalists Association.
Kristie Lu Stout Awards
Over the years, Lu Stout’s 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 was 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 for coverage of Super Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
Kristie Lu Stout Salary
Her salary is under review.
Kristie Lu Stout Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 million – $5 million.
