Lisa Ling, the journalist, producer and author who has logged stints at Channel One, ABC, CNN and CBS News, has tapped CAA to represent her in a variety of fields.
\n\nLing, who recently worked as a contributor at CBS News, is known for her work hosting documentary-journalism programs ranging from National Geographic’s “Explorer” to CNN’s “This Is Life.” She also spent time as one of the co-hosts at ABC’s daytime show “The View,” and hosted and executive-produced “Our America” for the Oprah Winfrey Network, now part of Skydance.
\n\nLing has worked as a journalist from a young age, starting first as a teenager for “Scratch,” a nationally syndicated TV program aimed at teens, and then for Channel One, a video-news report aimed at schoolchildren. She traveled abroad and covered war outbreaks in different parts of the world. She previously had a production deal with HBO that resulted in series such as “Take Out,” a look at the world of Asian-American cuisine.
\n\nHer books include titles such as “Mother, Sister, Daughter, Bride: Rituals of Womanhood,” and “Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and Other’s Fights to Bring Her Home,” about her sister, Laura, who was detained in North Korea…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/