Kristie Lu Stout is an award-winning anchor/correspondent for CNN International. Recently named one of Forbes magazine’s ‘Nine Women to Watch’ in Asia, and winner of a prestigious Asian Television Award as “Best news presenter or anchor”, Stout hosts the evening edition of the network's “World Report” news program from CNN's Asia Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
Stout’s recent coverage of major news events for the network’s international audience has focussed heavily on the global economic crisis, with particular emphasis on its impact in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition she has led coverage of U.S. President Barack Obama’s first year in office, the deteriorating security environment in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as North Korea's rocket launch and efforts to rein in its nuclear ambitions.
Since joining the network in 2001, her extensive assignments around the region have included reporting live from Beijing to cover the city’s preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games, from Tokyo on Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s historic visit to Japan and live from Shanghai during CNN’s ‘Eye on China’ week of special programming.
Additional experience includes reports from the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea during the network’s ‘Eye on South Korea’ week of programming, an initiative which she again fronted this year. She also reported from Banda Aceh, Indonesia after the Indian Ocean tsunami, and from Vietnam after its entry into the World Trade Organization.
Stout previously anchored “CNN Today” and “World News Asia”, the network’s former Hong Kong morning and evening news and business programs. Earlier in her career at CNN, she was the network’s technology correspondent and host of the daily “Tech Watch” segment. In eight years since joining the network she has consistently reported on high-tech developments and continues to lead by example, by regularly tweeting while anchoring live (http://www.twitter.com/klustout) . She has conducted in-depth interviews with some of technology’s biggest newsmakers including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, Linux creator Linus Torvalds and Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Her career in journalism started in San Francisco at Wired magazine's online division. Stout has written on technology for various media outlets including the South China Morning Post, where she founded and wrote the “Beijing Byte” column.
She was one of the first employees to join the Beijing-based Internet portal Sohu.com and worked for Reuters' new media division in China. Stout holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree from Stanford University and studied advanced Mandarin Chinese at Beijing's Tsinghua University.
Her community efforts include speaking to audiences across the region. She has shared her passion for storytelling at TEDxBeijing, and has lectured to journalism students at Peking University, Hong Kong University and the National University of Singapore.
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