FOX Business Network (FBN) has hired Jo Ling Kent from NBC’s owned and
operated station WVIT (Hartford), announced Kevin Magee, head of the
network.
Starting May 1st, Kent will serve as a business reporter for
FBN covering breaking financial news and international market moves. She
will be based out of FBN’s headquarters in New York.
In making the announcement Magee said, “Jo is an extremely accomplished
reporter. Her experience overseas will help our audience understand
international markets and economies.”
While at WVIT, Kent covered local businesses as a general assignment and
investigative reporter. Prior to that, she was a campaign embed reporter
for NBC News, covering the 2012 presidential race. Before joining NBC,
she covered the Chinese economy, human rights, Taiwan trade and
environmental issues as an associate producer in CNN’s Beijing bureau.
She got her start in television working as a web reporter for ABC News
where she covered the Beijing Olympics, 2008 Taiwan elections, unrest in
Tibet and the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.
In 2006, Kent founded the Annual International Women’s Day Benefit, an
organization dedicated to creating mentoring and education programs for
girls in the United States and China. To date, the organization has
raised tens of thousands of dollars through fundraising events across
the country.
Kent holds two masters degrees in international affairs from both the
London School of Economics and Peking University, in addition to a BA
from Rice University. She is a U.S. Fulbright Fellow to China,
specializing in the effects of legal aid for underprivileged women in
the criminal justice system under China’s preeminent women’s activist
lawyers. She originally helms from Minnesota and is fluent in Mandarin.
FOX Business Network (FBN) is a financial news channel delivering
real-time information across all platforms that impact both Main Street
and Wall Street. Headquartered in New York—the business capital of the
world—FBN launched in October 2007 under the leadership of FOX News
Chairman & CEO Roger Ailes and is now available in more than 60 million
homes in major markets across the United States. Owned by News Corp, the
network has bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, DC and London.
On the web at www.foxbusiness.com
