Elise Hu
Elise Hu | |
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| Born | February 17, 1982 |
| Education | University of Missouri |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer |
| Years active | 2002-present |
| Employer(s) | TED, National Public Radio, Vice News |
| Spouse | Matt Stiles (div. 2021) |
| Children | 3 |
Elise Hu is an American broadcast journalist who hosts the TED Talks Daily podcast [1] and serves as host-at-large for NPR.[2] From 2015 to 2018, she was the network's first Seoul, South Korea, bureau chief.[3]
Life and education
[edit]Hu was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Chinese-American immigrants, and grew up in suburban Missouri and Texas.[4] 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.[5] She interned at WFAA-TV in Dallas[6] before earning a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.[7]
She was married to Matt Stiles, a reporter, with whom she has three daughters.[8][9] She speaks Mandarin Chinese.[4]
Career
[edit]Hu began her career as a television reporter for stations including KWTX-TV,[10] KVUE-TV and WYFF-TV, and then was among the founding journalists at the Texas Tribune, a digital news startup.[11]
She joined NPR in 2011 and opened the Seoul bureau in early 2015, where she oversaw coverage of South Korea, North Korea and Japan.[12] She hosted video series on NPR named "Elise Tries,"[13] which received a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation,[14] and "Future You, With Elise Hu."[15] As of 2020, she is host-at-large based at NPR West, filling in on programs such as "It's Been a Minute";[16] correspondent for Vice News;[17] and co-founder of the podcast production company Reasonable Volume.[18]
Her reporting has been honored with a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Video,[19] a Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism,[20] beat reporting awards[21] from the Texas Associated Press. The Austin Chronicle twice named her "Best of Austin" for reporting and social media work.[22]
Hu is a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab,[16] a director on the Grist.org board,[23] and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[24] She previously served as a guest co-anchor on Tech News Today on TWIT,[25] an adjunct instructor for Georgetown University[26] and an adviser and blogger for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Her book, Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital was published by E.P. Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in May 2023.[27] It explores South Korea's global influence in beauty and how a digital society narrows global appearance ideals.[28]
References
[edit]- ^ "TED Talks Daily welcomes inaugural host, Elise Hu". TED Blog. Retrieved 2020-08-15.
- ^ "Elise Hu". NPR.
- ^ "Newsroom Moves For NPR's Elise Hu and Anthony Kuhn".
- ^ a b Hu, Elise (April 9, 2013). "Mom Says, Learn Chinese". NPR. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ^ Nguyen, Ethan. "Elise Hu going live". Wildcat Tales. Retrieved 2019-05-07.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Missouri Alumni Profiles". University of Missouri School of Journalism. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
- ^ Mainl, Lexi (2015-07-20). "16 Surprising Things About Parenting in South Korea". A Cup of Jo. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
- ^ "From Plano To Seoul, NPR's Elise Hu Threads The Needle Between Missiles And Motherhood". KERA News. 2018-02-05. Retrieved 2021-05-28.
- ^ McGuff, Mike. "Elise Hu: From KVUE to VICE News". MikeMcGuff.com.
- ^ Carr, David (November 8, 2009). "News Erupts, and So Does a Web Debut". The New York Times.
- ^ Horgan, Richard. "NPR is Opening a South Korea Bureau". Mediabistro.
- ^ "Video: Elise Tries". NPR. Retrieved August 10, 2017.
- ^ "NPR Women Win Six Gracie Awards". NPR.
- ^ "VIDEOS: Future You, with Elise Hu". NPR. 6 May 2019.
- ^ a b "Elise Hu".
- ^ "LA's Empty Hotels are Housing Thousands of Homeless. But for How Long?". Vice News.
- ^ "The Team".
- ^ Smith, Evan (16 June 2010). "Texas Tribune Wins Edward R. Murrow Awards". The Texas Tribune. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "KVUE-TV Tops Again in Texas AP Awards". www.ahbelo.info. A.H. Belo Corporation. 24 July 2021.
- ^ "Best TV Reporter Who Can Write: Elise Hu, KVUE". No. Best of Austin 2008. The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
- ^ "Grist Team".
- ^ "Council on Foreign Relations".
- ^ "Elise Hu". TWIT.TV.
- ^ "Georgetown University School of Professional Studies". www.georgetown.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02.
- ^ "Flawless: Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-beauty Capital". Penguin Random House.
- ^ "Elise Hu Unpacks the K-Beauty Industry in Her New Book, Flawless". The Austin Chronicle.
