Thu. Feb 20th, 2025

Kristie Lu Stout Biography

Kristie Lu (Kristie Lu Stout) an American award-winning Journalist working at CNN International based in Hong Kong SAR as a News Anchor, Correspondent and Reporter. She Hosts the “Tech For Good,” a television and digital series in which shares a collection of intimate, inspiring and transformative stories.

She as well report from the newsroom and in the field on major breaking news stories including the coronavirus pandemic and US-China relations. She serves as a fill-in anchor for editions of CNN Newsroom when Rosemary Church and Max Foster are not available. She has earned several awards including the 2006 Asian Television Award as Best News Presenter or Anchor when it was still called CNN Today.

Kristie Lu Stout Age

Lu was born on 7 December 1974 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Kristie Lu Stout CNN International

Kristie currently works at CNN International based in Hong Kong SAR as a News Anchor, Correspondent and Reporter. She Hosts the “Tech For Good,” a television and digital series in which shares a collection of intimate, inspiring and transformative stories.

She also report from the newsroom and in the field on major breaking news stories including the coronavirus pandemic and US-China relations. Lu works as a fill-in anchor for editions of CNN Newsroom when Rosemary Church and Max Foster are not available.

She has received several awards such as the 2006 Asian Television Award as Best News Presenter or Anchor when it was still called CNN Today. The awards include;

  • Best Covid-19 Factual Feature at the 2020 Content Asia Awards.
  • Best Continuing News Reporting for TV and Video by the Association for International Broadcasting
  • Best News or Current Affairs Presenter at the Asian Academy Creative Awards,
  • Best News Program and other 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

Lu earns an average annual salary of between $24,292 and $72,507.

Kristie Lu Stout Net Worth

Stout has an estimated net worth of between $500 thousand and $1 million.

Kristie Lu Stout Height and Weight

Stout stands tall at a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 meters) and weighs 121 lbs (57 kg).

Kristie Lu Stout Education

Lu enrolled and later graduated from Beijing Normal University with a Princeton in Beijing certificate in Mandarin Chinese in 1994. She later joined Stanford University in 1992, and graduated in 1996 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Psychology.

She earned a UC Berkeley IUP (Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies) immersion Certificate in Advanced Mandarin Chinese from Tsinghua University, in 1998. She then joined Stanford University in 1996, from where she earned a Master’s degree in Media Studies.

Kristie Lu Stout Family

Stout was born to a Han Chinese mother and a European-American father in Philadelphia. She was raised up in a partially Chinese-speaking household.

Kristie Lu Stout Husband

Kristie is married to husband Seung Chong, a Malaysian Attorney. The duo is blessed with an adorable daughter called Arabella, who was born in 2009. The family currently resides in Hong Kong.

 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *