Joie Chen was born on 28 August 1961 and is a Chinese American television journalist as well as an Asian American broadcast journalist.
16 Facts About Joie Chen
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Joie Chen was the anchor of Al Jazeera America's flagship evening news show America Tonight, which was launched in August 2013.
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Joie Chen contributed to CBS Sunday Morning and won an Emmy for her coverage of the DC sniper attacks.
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Joie Chen has been an anchor at CNN and CNN International, covering world affairs and domestic issues, and she reported for USA Today on TV.
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Joie Chen is currently Advisor and Faculty at the Poynter Institute in Washington, DC.
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Joie Chen began her broadcast journalism career at WCIV-TV in Charleston, South Carolina, as a reporter and producer, but soon decided she had more talent as the former.
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Joie Chen received her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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Joie Chen is a member of the Medill Board of Advisors, and serves on the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, as the representative from the Asian American Journalists Association.
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Joie Chen worked at CNN from 1991 to 2001 for CNN International and for the network's domestic operations.
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Joie Chen covered the US military operations in Somalia and Bosnia, anchored the coverage of the Columbine High School shootings, the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, and won an Emmy award for her anchor work covering the bombing at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Atlanta Games.
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In 1996, Joie Chen received the CableACE Award for Best Newscaster, along with Leon Harris, her co-anchor on The World Today.
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From 2002 until 2008, Joie Chen worked as a White House and Capitol Hill correspondent at CBS News in Washington DC, and contributed regularly to the network's long-form program CBS Sunday Morning.
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Joie Chen anchored the network's coverage of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the War in Afghanistan, and every day of three-week Beltway sniper attacks in 2002, which won an Emmy Awards.
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Joie Chen is not to be confused with Julie Chen, who worked at CBS at the time ; the two are not believed to be directly related.
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In 2008, Joie Chen left daily journalism to become Executive Vice President at Branded News Worldwide, which developed online platforms to deliver news and information to niche audiences, and a principal at the media consulting firm Way Forward Media.
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Joie Chen was responsible for helping to develop news and programming models for clients, building and staffing newsrooms, and creating new lines of business.