Lisa Ling Net Worth

Lisa J. Ling (Chinese: ???; pinyin: Ling Zhihui; born August 30, 1973) is an American journalist, best known for her role as a co-host of ABC's The View (from 1999-2002), host of National Geographic Explorer, reporter on Channel One News, and special correspondent for the Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN. She is the older sister of journalist Laura Ling.
Ling was born in Sacramento, California. Her parents divorced when she was 7 years old, and her younger sister Laura was 4. Ling's father Doug is a Chinese immigrant, born in the 1920s; her mother Mary Mei-yan (nee Wang) hails from Tainan, Taiwan, and formerly served as the head of the Los Angeles office of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs. Following the divorce, she and her sister, Laura, were raised in the city of Sacramento, California by their father. She graduated from Del Campo High School in 1991.
Ling started in television when she was chosen as one of the four hosts of Scratch, a nationally-syndicated teen magazine show based in Sacramento. At 18, she joined Channel One News as one of their youngest reporters and anchors. Among her roles was war correspondent, including assignments in Iraq and Afghanistan. She has won several awards for her reporting and documentaries. She attended the University of Southern California. Lisa Ling is fluent in Spanish.
She joined The View on August 2, 1999, but left the show after three and a half years towards the end of 2002 to go back to international reporting. She was responsible for proposing segments like investing for women, and, according to Ling, her goal was to say one thing each day that would make people think, whether it made them cheer or made them throw things at their TV. She drew both fire and praise for her comments after the September 11, 2001 attacks, in which she said, "What happened to the United States was a catastrophic event and the worst terrorist attack in human history. Yet maybe before we seek revenge, we should ask the question -