Lisa Ling 凌志慧: Reimagining My Purpose
Lisa Ling is a Journalist. She reflects on her 20 years of experience as a Journalist covering stories on rape, sex trafficking and child soldiers all around the world. She speaks about how these horrifying stories forced her to reimagine her purpose.
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ABOUT Lisa Ling
“Lisa is best known for her role as a co-host of ABC’s The View (from 1999–2002), host of National Geographic Explorer, a reporter on Channel One News, and special correspondent for the Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN. She is the older sister of Journalist Laura Ling.
In December 2008, CNN’s award winning documentary ‘Planet in Peril’ featured Lisa in the Series second installment, called ‘Battlelines’. She was the correspondent that tracked excessive shark fishing in Costa Rica, elephant poaching in Chad and gave people an inside look at the battle for the control over oil in Nigeria. On February 16, 2011 her new show ‘Our America with Lisa Ling’ premiered on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.
In March 2009, her younger sister Laura Ling, also a journalist and her colleague Euna Lee were detained by North Korea for illegal entry into the country. They had been attempting to film refugees along the border with China. In June, they were sentenced to 12 years in a labour prison for illegal entry into North Korea, and unspecified hostile acts.
North Korea released Laura and Euna on August 4, 2009 after a visit from former U.S. President Bill Clinton. Laura and Lisa went on to collaborate on the first book either has had published, ‘Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home’ published in May 2010.”
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