Jo Ling Kent Joins CBS News As Senior Business And Technology Correspondent – Deadline

CBS News has employed Jo Ling Kent to function senior enterprise and know-how correspondent, based mostly in Los Angeles.

Kent joins the community after six years because the enterprise and tech correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, the place her reporting earned an Edward R. Murrow Award and three Emmy nominations. She beforehand lined tech corporations and startups as correspondent and podcast host for Fox Business Network, and labored as an investigative and basic task reporter at NBC Connecticut. She additionally was a marketing campaign embed reporter for NBC News in the course of the 2012 cycle.

Neeraj Khemlani, president and co-head of CBS News and Stations, famous in a press release that Kent “has reported on artificial intelligence’s impact on our lives, viral disinformation, social media privacy issues, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global supply chain. She’s also led investigations into the conditions of workers at Amazon’s warehouses and Facebook’s impact on the 2016 elections. We look forward to having her on our team.”

Kent began her profession as a digital reporter in ABC News’ Beijing bureau, after which was an affiliate producer at CNN. The Minnetonka, MN, native speaks Mandarin and was a US Fulbright Scholar to China, centered on girls’s entry to authorized assist.