Jo Ling Kent is business and tech correspondent at NBC News. Her award-winning reporting appears across all platforms of NBC News and MSNBC, including TODAY and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. Since joining NBC News in 2016, Kent has covered the devastating economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the supply chain crisis, and the protests in Seattle following the death of George Floyd. She has led the network’s investigations into Amazon and Facebook and interviewed the CEOs of Twitter, Reddit, Etsy, Best Buy, Target, and beyond. Kent has sat down with whistleblowers from Facebook and Google, and questioned Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in the halls of Congress. Her work at NBC News has won an Edward R. Murrow Award and earned an Emmy nomination. Previously, Kent was a correspondent and podcast host at Fox Business Network and an investigative reporter at NBC Connecticut (WVIT), where she was a member of the team awarded a Peabody for coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting. She covered the 2012 presidential race for NBC News as an embed reporter on the campaign trail. For five years, she worked in China: first as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar focusing on women's rights, then as a Beijing-based journalist for ABC News and CNN. Kent has two master’s degrees in international affairs from the London School of Economics and Peking University, along with a BA from Rice University. She's from Minnesota, fluent in Mandarin and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her partner Scott and two daughters.
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Asia Center
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Center for the Future of Aging
Advances healthy longevity and financial security for all through high-impact policies, research, convenings, and multisector partnerships.
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Center for Strategic Philanthropy
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FasterCures
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Global Market Development
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Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream
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