Carol Lin

Carol Lin is an American journalist who founded [http://www.carollinreporting.com CarolLinReporting.com] which provides cancer patients, their families, and caregivers with answers they may not find on traditional networks. [http://www.blogher.org/ten-money-questions-carol-lin] . The site launched on Oct. 1, 2007, and is part of a yet to be announced larger project that will allow Lin to combine journalism with an operating system to enable cancer patients and their families to find immediate solutions to the most pressing problems in their daily lives. [http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/carol_lin_has_discovered_whats_possible_68054.asp] U.S. News & World Report reported that Lin, "has moved quickly to combine politics and news to create a model to provide cancer answers while also pushing for greater spending for cures [http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2007/10/19/ex-cnners-team-to-help-fight-cancer.html] . Lin also contributes reports to NPR [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90791298]

From 1998- December 30, 2006, Lin served as a news anchor and correspondent for CNN and was based in the network's worldwide headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Before joining CNN, Lin was with ABC News where she served as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for "Good Morning America" and also reported for "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings."

During her tenure at CNN, Lin anchored several news programs, including "CNN Early Edition", "CNN Live at Daybreak", the weekend editions of "CNN Newsroom", and the former news-magazine program "CNN NewsStand." She traveled the globe to report on numerous breaking news stories for CNN, including the rebuilding of Kosovo, the shootings at Columbine High School, the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, and live from New York City's Times Square as part of CNN's world wide Millennium night coverage.

Additionally, Lin traveled to Jerusalem during the siege of Bethlehem to cover tensions between Israel and the Palestinian territories [http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0205/09/ltm.07.html] , and to Salt Lake City in 2002 to cover the Winter Olympics. Later that year she anchored the news coverage of the rescue of nine miners in Somerset, Pa. who were trapped for 77 hours.

Earlier, Lin played an integral role in CNN's Election 2000 coverage, anchoring live from the New Hampshire Primary [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0001/29/smn.11.html] , and from the Democratic Convention from the Staples Center in Los Angeles [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0008/13/sm.11.html] . Lin also interviewed many of the key players during the Florida vote recount, including Florida Gov. Jeb Bush [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0105/09/lad.06.html] . During CNN's December 6, 2005 broadcast of rioting in Paris, Lin referred to two French youths of Tunisian origin, who had died shortly before the riots began, as "African-Americans". [http://newsbusters.org/node/2783]

However, of all the news stories Lin reported on and anchored, she is well remembered by many Americans as the first news anchor to break the news of the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001. The first bulletins broke into a commercial. Lin's first report came in at 8:49 a.m. EST:

"...this just in, you are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center, and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center. CNN Center right now is just beginning to work on this story, obviously calling our sources and trying to figure out exactly what happened, but clearly something relatively devastating happening this morning there on the south end of the island of Manhattan. That is once again, a picture of one of the towers of the World Trade Center."

Less than two months after Lin reported the news of the Sept 11th attacks to the world, she was once again traveling the globe to bring world news to CNN viewers, this time from Pakistan, reporting on numerous topics, including Afghan refugees in that country. [http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0111/03/smn.10.html]

Lin's solid journalism had been praised by numerous media critics, including CBS Marketwatch's Jon Friedman who cited how she handled the news of the death of her former ABC News colleague Peter Jennings. Friedman first noted "CNN distinguished itself by sticking to the story and giving a balanced picture of Jennings' career -- thanks in large part to Lin's composure," and went on to write that Lin "was steady, thoughtful and, most of all, reliable -- the essential quality for any journalist working under pressure." [http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2007/10/19/ex-cnners-team-to-help-fight-cancer.html]

While with ABC News, Lin prvided national reports on The Freeman Stand off in Montana, The UniBomber arrest, the North Dakota Floods, and the Jon Benet murder case, among other stories. Before joining ABC News, Lin served as a weekend news anchor for KTTV in Los Angeles where she worked in the Special Undercover Investigations Unit. She started her reporting career at the Washington, D.C., bureau of CONUS Communications where she covered the Reagan presidency.

Lin has been honored with numerous awards for her work, including three Los Angeles Press Club Awards. Lin was also the first recipient of the National IMAGE Award by the Organization of Chinese Americans.

Lin earned a bachelor's degree in political science from UCLA. Lin was a dorm mate with actress Heather Locklear at UCLA, mentioned by Locklear while a guest on "Larry King Live" in 1999.Fact|date=February 2007

Lin's husband, William Robinson, an eight-time Emmy Award winning news producer, [http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2003/05/william_robinso.php] died of cancer in 2003. Lin and Robinson have one child.

External links

* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90791298 NPR, Lin's first post-CNN journalism project]
* [http://miamiherald.typepad.com/changing_channels/2008/05/carol-lin-for-m.html Miami Herald on Lin's NPR reporting]
* [http://www.nypost.com/seven/10222007/tv/starr_report.htm New York Post] Lin and DarynKagan.com's Daryn Kagan team up online to fight cancer
* [http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2007/10/19/ex-cnners-team-to-help-fight-cancer.html U.S. News & World Report]
* [http://www.blogher.org/ten-money-questions-carol-lin BlogHer's Nina Smith profiles Lin]
* [http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/carol_lin_has_discovered_whats_possible_68054.asp TVNewser.com's Alissa Krinsky profiles Lin for CarolLinReporting.com launch day]
* [http://www.workingmother.com/web;jsessionid=E20EA055B97B540530ECB6363394AE5E.tomcat1?service=direct/1/ViewArticlePage/dlinkFullArticle&sp=77&sp=82 Working Mother profile of Lin]
* [http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2007/10/19/ex-cnners-team-to-help-fight-cancer.html CBS MarketWatch profile of Lin]