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Elise Hu
Born
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
StatusMarried
EducationUniversity of Missouri
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
EmployerNational Public Radio
ChildrenEva (born September 2012)
Isabel (born July 2015)[1]
Luna (born April 2017)

Elise Hu is an American broadcast journalist who hosts the TED Talks Daily podcast [2] and serves as host-at-large for NPR.[3] From 2015 to 2018, she was the network's first Seoul, South Korea, bureau chief.[4]

Early Life and Education

Hu was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Chinese-American immigrants, and grew up in suburban Missouri and Texas.[5] She graduated from Plano Senior High School in Plano, Texas. During high school, she and friends were paid $100 each to appear in national 7-Up advertisements, after which agents scouted Hu to work as a model for a few years into college.[6] She interned at WFAA-TV in Dallas[7] before earning a bachelors in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.[8] She speaks Mandarin Chinese.[5]

Career

Hu began her career as a television reporter for stations including KVUE-TV and WYFF-TV, and then was among the founding journalists at the Texas Tribune, a digital news startup.[9] She joined NPR in 2011 and opened the Seoul bureau in early 2015, where she oversaw coverage of South Korea, North Korea and Japan.[10] She hosted video series on NPR named "Elise Tries,"[11] which received a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation,[12], and "Future You, With Elise Hu."[13] As of 2020, she is host-at-large based at NPR West, filling in on programs such as "It's Been a Minute";[14] correspondent for Vice News;[15] and co-founder of the podcast production company Reasonable Volume.[16]

Her reporting has been honored with a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Video,[17] a Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism,[18] beat reporting awards[19] from the Texas Associated Press. The Austin Chronicle twice named her "Best of Austin" for reporting and social media work.[20]

Hu is a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab [14], a director on the Grist.org board[21], and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[22]. She previously served as a guest co-anchor on Tech News Today on TWIT,[23] an adjunct instructor for Georgetown University[24] and an adviser and blogger for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

References

  1. ^ https://cupofjo.com/2015/07/parenting-in-south-korea/
  2. ^ "TED Talks Daily welcomes inaugural host, Elise Hu". TED Blog. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
  3. ^ "Elise Hu". NPR.
  4. ^ "Newsroom Moves For NPR's Elise Hu and Anthony Kuhn".
  5. ^ a b Hu, Elise (April 9, 2013). "Mom Says, Learn Chinese". NPR. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  6. ^ Nguyen, Ethan. "Elise Hu going live". Wildcat Tales. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
  7. ^ "Far from her Plano roots, NPR reporter Elise Hu chases the news in South Korea and across Asia". Dallas Morning News. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
  8. ^ "Missouri Alumni Profiles". University of Missouri School of Journalism. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  9. ^ Carr, David (November 8, 2009). "News Erupts, and So Does a Web Debut". The New York Times.
  10. ^ Horgan, Richard. "NPR is Opening a South Korea Bureau". Mediabistro.
  11. ^ "Video: Elise Tries". NPR. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
  12. ^ "NPR Women Win Six Gracie Awards". NPR.
  13. ^ https://www.npr.org/2019/05/06/716414780/videos-future-you
  14. ^ a b https://www.annenberglab.com/employees/elise-hu/
  15. ^ "LA's Empty Hotels are Housing Thousands of Homeless. But for How Long?". Vice News.
  16. ^ https://www.reasonablevolume.com/who-we-are
  17. ^ Smith, Evan (16 June 2010). "Texas Tribune Wins Edward R. Murrow Awards". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  18. ^ "Boston Globe Team Wins 2012 AAJA-Gannett Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism". AAJA.org. Archived from the original on 2015-01-29. Retrieved 2015-03-07.
  19. ^ "KVUE-TV Tops Again in Texas AP Awards". www.ahbelo.info. A.H. Belo Corporation.
  20. ^ "Best TV Reporter Who Can Write: Elise Hu, KVUE". No. Best of Austin 2008. The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
  21. ^ https://grist.org/team/
  22. ^ https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster
  23. ^ "Elise Hu". TWIT.TV.
  24. ^ "Georgetown University School of Professional Studies". www.georgetown.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
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