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Jo Ling Kent – Biography, Married, Husband, Parents, Height, Net Worth
Jo Ling Kent is a renowned American journalist and news correspondent who works with NBC News. Of Chinese descent, she has slowly but surely worked her way up the career ladder to where she is now through hard work and professionalism. For more on Jo Ling Kent’s career rise, read further.
Jo Ling Kent Biography,
Kent was born Jo Ling Kent on May 11, 1984, in San Francisco, United States. She was born to her parents. David L. Kent, his father and Shean Yen Janice, his mother. According to Jo Ling Kent’s biography, she is of mixed race – an American ethnicity of Asian descent – as she is half American (from her father) and half Chinese (from her mother), but her nationality is American. Kent, who was raised in Minnetonka, Minnesota, where she was raised with her family, attended Rice University, officially known as William Marsh Rice University in Houston, Texas. In 2006, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in history, Asian studies and political studies.
She went further to do her post-graduate studies in international affairs at Peking University – a Chinese research institution located in Beijing – in 2008 before obtaining her master’s degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science ( LSE) in 2009. The journalist speaks French very well but is fluent in English and Mandarin – thanks to her ancestors.
Career
Prior to beginning her career as a journalist, Kent worked as a Fulbright Scholar in China, her area of concentration being limited to researching cases concerned with the impact of legal aid for disadvantaged women victims of sexual harassment and of domestic violence. She started her reporting career at ABC News as a digital reporter in the Beijing Bureau. She provided coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a web reporter. But that was just the beginning. Kent also had live coverage of the 2008 elections in Taiwan, the earthquake in Sichuan, and civil unrest in Tibet.
Between 2009 and 2011, Jo Ling Kent worked as an associate producer in Beijing for ABC. His work at ABC was well documented and he had people like NBC News calling him. She began working as a reporter for Campaign Embed for them in 2011. In 2012, she moved to Connecticut to land a General Reporter role with NBC. For their progress, Kent and his crew also received the Peabody Award when they covered the Newtown School shooting.
The American correspondent left NBC News to join in 2013. She worked for Fox between 2013 and 2016, with a temporary role for Fox News Radio for about a year in 2015 on the “Fast Forward with JL” podcast. Kent has also dealt with global technology reporting and to his credit. She also conducted interviews with big manufacturers like John Legere, chairman and CEO of T-Mobile, Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, Jack Ma, co-founder of Alibaba, Aaron Levie, who is also CEO of Box, and so many others. She returned to NBC News and currently works as a correspondent, while serving on the board of directors of the Minnesota YMCA’s Youth in Government Board of Directors.
Is Jo Ling Kent married? – Husband, parents
Jo Ling Kent is happily married to fellow journalist, Scott Conroy. Kent and Scott had been dating for a while before finally walking down the aisle on August 22, 2015, at a grand ceremony held at the Mountain View Grand Resort in Whitefield, New Hampshire. The lovely couple have yet to announce they are expecting a baby and Kent has yet to be seen with a little bump, even though her fans have been waiting a long time for such information to leak out.
From her social media activities, the NBC news correspondent seems to really be making the most of her time alone with her husband, which doesn’t distract her from raising children at the moment as both of them are determined to build their respective career. Scott Conroy, who is also a media personality, is a senior political reporter for the Huffington Post. And as mentioned earlier, Kent’s parents are David L. Kent and Shean Yen Janice.
Net Worth and Lifestyle
Jo Ling Kent is very active on all her social media accounts. Although she is not on Facebook, she can be reached on her Instagram account (@jolingkent) or on her Twitter account, where she has over 29,000 followers. She has over 8,000 followers on Instagram (@JoNBCNews).
Although her annual salary is unavailable and with no other known business connection, she is said to have an estimated net worth of between $500,000 and $1 million.
Body measurements – height, weight
Information regarding his measurements and statistics are not available. There is no data about his weight, height, chest and height etc. However, her photos show that the blooming reporter maintains correlated mass and shape. Kent’s eyes are brown and she has black hair.