Kristie Lu Stout Biography
Kristie Lu Stout is a skilled American and an award-winning journalist currently working at CNN as an anchor and correspondent, based in Hong Kong.
In addition, she reports from the newsroom and in the field on huge breaking news stories including US-China relations, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the aftermath of extreme climate events in the region.
Kristie Lu Stout Age
How old is Stout? She is 48 years old as of 2024. Stout was born on 7 December 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. She celebrates her birthday on the 7th of December every year.
Kristie Lu Stout Education
She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Stanford University and studied advanced Mandarin Chinese at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
Kristie Lu Stout Height|Weight
Stout stands on an average height of 5 feet 7 inches and weighs around 60kgs
Kristie Lu Stout Family
Stout’s father was an American and a Chinese mother from Europe and, as a result, she was raised in a family that spoke partly Chinese. Her mother’s parents from Guizhou were born in Taiwan, however, she has not revealed information regarding her family members.
Kristie Lu Stout Husband
She is happily married to a Malaysian Attorney, Seung Chong, hence she has not disclosed information regarding her husband.
Kristie Lu Stout Children
Stout and her husband are blessed with a daughter named Arabella, hence she has not disclosed information regarding her daughter.
Kristie Lu Stout CNN
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 over the decades. Her program Inventing Tomorrow: Tech in a Time of Pandemic won the Best Covid-19 Factual Feature at the 2020 Content Asia Awards. Lu Stout and her CNN Hong Kong colleagues won Best Continuing News Reporting for TV and Video by the Association for International Broadcasting for team coverage of the 2019 Hong Kong Protests in 2020.
Furthermore, Lu Stout received Best News or Current Affairs Presenter at the Asian Academy Creative Awards, which she conceived and established during the news program in 2010, News Stream won the Best News Program. She also received 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.
Currently, Lu Stout hosts feature programs for CNN including Tech For Good, a television and digital series on the transformative power of technology. Lu Stout interviews the entrepreneurs, experts, and businesses developing innovative ways to battle and navigate the climate crisis in her future show inventing Tomorrow. Additionally, she is the host for Marketplace Asia, a monthly program targeting CNN’s global audience of business leaders.
In this role, 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 for CNN digital and TV.
Kristie Lu Stout Career
Lu Stout maintains a focus on how developments in China are dramatically changing the world for all of us as she is based in China for twenty years. From covering 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 establishing On China, CNN’s first-ever regular series focused on the country.
Lu Stout began her broadcasting career in journalism in San Francisco at WIRED magazine’s online division. She has blogged on technology for various media publications including the South China Morning Post, where she founded and wrote the Beijing Byte column. Prior to 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.
She is a proud Asian American, Lu Stout is an Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) lifetime member and mentor. Moreover, she is also a Correspondent Member and Correspondent Board Governor at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong. Lu Stout regularly heads conversations about current events with students off-camera with speaking engagements at universities across the world and volunteers as an undergraduate admission interviewer for her alma mater.
She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from Stanford University and studied advanced Mandarin Chinese at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
Kristie Lu Stout Salary|Net Worth
Stout has an estimated salary ranging between $70,000 – $125,000 and has an estimated net worth of $1 Million -$5 Million which she earned from her broadcasting career.
Kristie Lu Stout Social Media Platforms
Stout is very active on social media platforms and has over 164.7k followers on Twitter, 24.4k followers on Instagram, and over 4k followers on Facebook.
