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3	Lisa J. Ling (凌志慧 Líng Zhìhuì, born August 30, 1973 in Sacramento, California) is an American television journalist, born in Sacramento, California on August 30, 1973. Her parents divorced when she was age 7, and partially because of this, she bonded more to her younger sister Laura. Her first appearance was on a local news show called 'Scratch', who recruited her out of a casting call in a Sacramento mall. Scratch was nationally syndicated, drawing the attention of Channel One News at age 18. By age 25, she was named senior war correspondent. She was also doing desk work with Creator/AndersonCooper, who was also at Channel One at the time.
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5	In 1999, Ling won a seat on ''The View'' to replace the outgoing Debbie Matenopoulos. Which she enjoyed, but her idea of compelling television and production's idea of compelling television were often at odds: Ling wanted to cover more serious topics; everyone else wanted to gossip about celebrities. The matter came to a head in the wake of 9/11, and Ling left in 2002 for National Geographic Explorer, and a side job as special correspondent for ''Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow''.
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7	Odds are, you still know Lisa from ''Series/TheView''. Most of the media sure does.
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9	In 2009, Laura, along with Euna Lee, were captured by North Korean border guards while filming a documentary about refugees fleeing into China, and were subsequently held for 4 1/2 months.
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11	If you don't know Lisa from The View, odds are you know her from the media campaign she waged to get her sister back.
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13	Lisa hosted her own series ''Series/OurAmericaWithLisaLing'', a documentary series on the Oprah Winfrey Network from 2011 to 2014. Afterward, she started up a SpiritualSuccessor series for CNN titled ''This is Life''.
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15	Ling attended the University of Southern Caifornia, and is fluent in Spanish. She's been married to radiation oncologist Paul Song since 2007, and gave birth to a daughter, Jett, in March 2013.
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17	!!Tropes involving Lisa Ling:
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19	* CelebrityResemblance: She's been mistaken for Creator/LucyLiu quite a few times.
20	* CoolBigSis
21	* {{Determinator}}: Laura's in trouble? She will get Laura back. Killing a Terminator is easier than getting rid of Lisa.
22	* ExecutiveMeddling: Most of her tenure on The View, really. She's more suited to documentaries and reporting from the field on very heavy topics. She'll talk about Brad Pitt and Miley Cyrus; she just doesn't like making a habit of it.
23	* GoingForTheBigScoop: Anyone that can obtain a job title of "senior war correspondent" at age 25 is going to earn this trope easy.
24	* IntrepidReporter: Did you hear the part about 'senior war correspondent at age 25'? Because I think we covered that part.
25	* LawOfInverseFertility: In 2004, Lisa did a story called 'China's Lost Girls', about girls adopted from China. When she got a look at the Western parents seeing their new daughters for the first time, she completely [[{{Squee}} squeed]] out and said, "I want one." Eight years and one miscarriage later, she got one.
26	* NatureLover: Her house in Santa Monica is carbon-neutral and reused every last scrap of material from the house that previously stood there.
27	* PluckyGirl: At one point in Lisa and Laura's book, ''Somewhere Inside'', Lisa tells about how, after already having secured the services of Barack Obama, she was told to wrangle the services of a U.S. President in order to get Laura home from North Korea. She went and got Jimmy Carter. A phone call from North Korea then reveals she got the wrong President and now she had to go wrangle Bill Clinton, and she'd better do so fast. After the call had ended, Lisa commenced what was probably the most intense and sustained blue streak of her life... ''and then she went and got him too.''
28	* SiblingTeam: Lisa used to be significantly more well-known than Laura, who was chiefly known for working on Current TV as part of the Vanguard team. After the North Korea incident (and the resultant book they wrote together), Laura got quite the upgrade. They've started to be referred to as "the Ling sisters".
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30	!!Lisa Ling appears in:
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32	* Scratch (1991)
33	* Channel One News (1991)
34	* The View (1999)
35	* Magazine/NationalGeographic Explorer (2003)
36	* ''Series/TheOprahWinfreyShow'' (2005)
37	* Nightline (2008)
38	* Planet In Peril: Battle Lines (2008)
39	* Series/OurAmericaWithLisaLing (2011-2014)
40	* The Job (2013)

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