Laura Ling

Quick Facts

Full Name	Laura Ling
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Dec 1, 1976(1976-12-01)
Age	48
Birthplace	Carmichael
Country	United States
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Laura Ling Biography

Laura Ling is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 1, 1976 in Carmichael, United States. Her father Doug was an immigrant from China born in mainland China in the 1920s. Her mother, Mary Meiyan (nee Wang) is an Immigrant of Tainan, Taiwan and was the director of the Los Angeles office of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs. They divorced at the age of Laura was just four years old, and her sister Lisa was seven years old. After the divorce, the sisters were brought up within Sacramento, California, by their father. Ling declares herself to be Chinese American. Ling was a student at Del Campo High School in Fair Oaks, California.

Ling was selected as among Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year in 2009. The year 2011 was the same. Ling won her McGill Medal for Courage in Journalism of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication In 2014, she received the Emmy Award and an Edward R. Murrow Award (Radio Television Digital News Association) for SoCal Connected. As of 2012, Ling received an induction into the San Juan Education Foundation Hall of Fame. As Coordinator of Development as well as the Director of Discovery Digital Networks, Ling was awarded the Gracie Award in 2016.

In the last week of March 2009, North Korea announced that two American journalists were detained and would be indicted and tried for illegally entering the country. On May 3, 2009, it was officially announced that Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee were the journalists that had been detained, after they attempted to film refugees along the border with China. In June 2009, they were sentenced to 12 years in a labor prison for illegal entry into North Korea, and unspecified hostile acts. Of the trial, Ling stated, “I had tried to prepare myself for a lengthy sentence, but really nothing could prepare me for the verdict when I heard the words twelve years…he said, no forgiveness, no appeal…And I was wondering if those words meant that the window of opportunity had closed and my fate was sealed.” Many in the media called it a show trial. The US government made diplomatic efforts to oppose this sentence before their release in August 2009.

Laura Ling is married to Iain Clayton, a financial analyst. On June 3, 2010, Ling gave birth to a girl, naming her Li Jefferson Clayton, in Burbank, California. Laura and her husband decided to name the baby Li, after Laura’s sister Lisa, and chose Jefferson since it was President Clinton’s middle name. They also have a son named Kai, born on December 18, 2013.

Ling’s journalistic career began when she was an KCET correspondent on SoCal Connected and producer for Channel One News. She was the co-creator of Breaking it Down, a documentary series on MTV which aired from 1999 between 1999 and 2001. Following that, Ling joined Current TV and reported on the issues surrounding Cuba, Indonesia, the Philippines, Turkey, the West Bank, and the Amazon River, as well as on shantytowns and shantytowns located that are located in Sao Paulo, Brazil, homeless teenagers located in Los Angeles, and underground churches in China. Prior to her detention she was reporting on her experiences during the Mexican Drug War, and when she was arrested, arrest, Ling was undercover making an investigative documentary about North Korean defectors, who mostly were women and the dangers they faced when they crossed the Chinese border to Tumen River. Tumen River including forced marriages and trafficking, deportation and being seen as an incriminating criminal.

Laura Ling Net Worth

Laura Ling is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laura Ling 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Laura Ling (born December 1 1976) is an American journalist and writer. She was employed by Current TV, which until 2013 was owned by the former Vice- President Al Gore, as a reporter and vice president of the Vanguard Journalism Unit, which produced the Vanguard TV series. She was anchor and reporter for E! Investigates. It is a documentary show that airs on the E! Network. In November 2014 it was announced that Ling has joined Discovery Digital Networks as its Director of Development.

in 1998 Ling earned a communications degree from UCLA. While at UCLA Ling worked as an intern analyst at the Center for Communication Policy. In the center, she was part of the Violence Assessment Project studying television shows.

Many in both the United States and South Korea have also accused Ling and Lee of creating a diplomatic crisis with North Korea during a particularly tense emergency that was already ongoing between North Korea and the United States. These accusations have been addressed in both Ling and Lee’s memoirs. Some human rights activists in South Korea have accused Lee and Ling of needlessly placing North Korean refugees in danger by not being more careful with their tapes and notebooks in the event they were apprehended. In an interview with NPR, Lisa Ling said of the political climate with North Korea, “The tensions on the Korean peninsula had been worsening and becoming increasingly more severe, and some say that it was one of the low points in U.S.-North Korea relations.” In the efforts to negotiate Ling and Lee’s release, diplomatic envoys were brought up as an option, and many different envoys were considered including the Governor of New Mexico, Bill Richardson, former President Jimmy Carter, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and finally President Bill Clinton, who was ultimately accepted as an envoy by the North Koreans. Ling was pardoned along with Lee, and they returned to the United States following an unannounced visit to North Korea by former US President Bill Clinton on August 4, 2009.

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Who is Laura Ling Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Laura Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Laura Ling celebrates birthday on December 1 of every year.

Top Facts about Laura Ling

1. Laura Ling is an American journalist and writer.
2. She was born on December 1, 1976, in California.
3. Ling worked for Current TV and National Geographic Channel.
4. In 2009, she was detained by North Korea while reporting on human trafficking.
5. After a trial, she was sentenced to 12 years of hard labor.
6. She was released after former President Bill Clinton’s intervention in August 2009.
7. Ling co-authored the book “Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home.”
8. She has won several awards for her journalism work.
9. Ling is married to Iain Clayton and they have two daughters.
10. She continues to advocate for human rights issues through her work as a journalist and activist.

Why was Laura Ling held in North Korea?

In 2009, Laura Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee were detained in North Korea after they started filming refugees from North Korea who had crossed the river and entered China; many of these refugees were women, and once across the border, they were often sold as brides.

When was Laura Ling kidnapped?

On March 17, 2009, North Korean soldiers detained two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were working for the U.S. independent cable television network Current TV (defunct since August 2013), after they crossed into North Korea from China without a visa.

Is Lisa Ling Korean?

Her mother, Mary Mei-yan (née Wang), is a Taiwanese immigrant from Tainan, Taiwan , who served as the head of the Los Angeles office of the Formosan Association for Public Affairs. Ling’s father, Chung Teh “Douglas” Ling, is a Chinese immigrant, born in Hong Kong in 1937.

How old is Laura Ling?

45 years (December 1, 1976)

How is living in North Korea?

The country is both culturally and economically isolated, and many people in North Korea are suffering from malnutrition, and live in extreme poverty , according to the Associated Press. Most have little idea of what’s going on in the outside world due to government restrictions on electricity, travel, and more.