Business & Technology Journalist; Senior Correspondent at CBS News; Expert on AI & Global Economics

Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Jo Ling Kent Biography

Jo Ling Kent is a journalist and CBS News senior business and technology correspondent, appearing on "CBS Sunday Morning," "CBS Evening News," and "CBS Mornings." Kent has more than 15 years of experience covering the intersection of technology and business in the United States, as well as the emergence of China as a global economic power. She leads coverage of technology, artificial intelligence, the economy, and business, including interviews with CEOs of Anthropic, Netflix, Starbucks, Uber, OpenAI, and Tesla/SpaceX, as well as former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and director Jon M. Chu.

Kent has reported extensively on issues such as artificial intelligence's impact on daily life, viral disinformation, social media privacy, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global supply chain. She has led investigations into working conditions at Amazon warehouses and Facebook's influence on U.S. elections. Kent joined CBS News after serving as business and technology correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, where her reporting earned an Edward R. Murrow Award and three Emmy nominations. At NBC, she appeared on the "TODAY" show, "NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt," and MSNBC, leading investigations into Amazon and Facebook, the pandemic unemployment crisis, and conducting interviews with CEOs, founders, and government leaders.

Previously, Kent covered major technology companies and startups as a correspondent and podcast host for Fox Business Network. Earlier in her career, she was an investigative and general assignment reporter at NBC Connecticut, contributing to the news team that earned a Peabody Award for coverage of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Kent began her journalism career in Beijing as a digital reporter in ABC News' Beijing bureau and later as an associate producer at CNN.

Kent speaks Mandarin and was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to China, focusing on women's access to legal aid. She holds two master's degrees in international affairs from the London School of Economics and Peking University, and a bachelor's degree from Rice University. Kent is a member of the Asian American Journalists Association, a former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves on the board of Libraries Without Borders U.S. and the advisory board of the Very Asian Foundation. Her expertise in technology, global economics, and policy is reflected in a career spanning prominent newsrooms and major stories in business journalism.

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