Joie Chen | |
|---|---|
| Born | Joie Chen |
| Education | Northwestern(BA) Northwestern(MA) |
| Occupation | News anchor |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Known for | anchor,CNN Al Jazeera AmericaAmerica Tonight anchor White House Correspondent,CBS News |
Joie Chen (born 28 August 1961) is aChinese Americantelevision journalist as well as anAsian American broadcast journalist. She was the anchor ofAl Jazeera America's flagship evening news showAmerica Tonight, which was launched in August 2013.[1] In January 2016, the channel announced it would close on 12 April 2016.[2][3]
Chen has been a Washington-based correspondent for CBS News, reporting from the White House, Capitol Hill and other beats for all of the network's programming. She also contributed toCBS Sunday Morning and won an Emmy for her coverage of the D.C. sniper attacks. She has been an anchor at CNN and CNN International, covering world affairs and domestic issues, and she reported forUSA Today on TV.
In 2018, Chen was named director ofNorthwestern University's Washington D.C.–basedMedill School of Journalism programs.[4] She is currently Advisor and Faculty at thePoynter Institute in Washington, DC.[5]
Before CNN, she worked for six years as a reporter and anchor atAtlanta'sWXIA-TV in Atlanta from 1985 to 1991, and also as a correspondent forUSA Today on TV. She began her broadcast journalism career atWCIV-TV inCharleston, South Carolina, as a reporter and producer, but soon decided she had more talent as the former.[6] Chen received her bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism atNorthwestern University. She is a member of the Medill Board of Advisors,[7] and also serves on the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications, as the representative from theAsian American Journalists Association.[8]
Chen worked at CNN from 1991 to 2001 for CNN International and for the network's domestic operations.[1] She covered the U.S. military operations inSomalia andBosnia, anchored the coverage of theColumbine High School shootings, the trial ofOklahoma City bomberTimothy McVeigh,[9] and won an Emmy award for her anchor work covering thebombing at Centennial Olympic Park during the1996 Atlanta Games.[10] In 1996, Chen received theCableACE Award for Best Newscaster, along with Leon Harris, her co-anchor onThe World Today .[11] Chen created and anchored the network's first effort to include its online audience in its broadcasting, CNN NewsSite with Joie Chen.[12]
From 2002 until 2008, Chen worked as a White House andCapitol Hill correspondent atCBS News in Washington D.C., and contributed regularly to the network's long-form programCBS Sunday Morning. She anchored the network's coverage of theSeptember 11 attacks in 2001, theWar in Afghanistan,[9] and every day of three-weekBeltway sniper attacks in 2002, which won anEmmy Awards.[13] During her time at CBS, she was the only minority female to rank among the 50 most visible network correspondents.[14]
Joie Chen is not to be confused withJulie Chen, who also worked at CBS at the time (and still, as of 2014, does); the two are not believed to be directly related.
In 2008, Chen left daily journalism to become Executive Vice President at Branded News Worldwide,[15] which developed online platforms to deliver news and information to niche audiences,[7] and a principal at the media consulting firm Way Forward Media. She was responsible for helping to develop news and programming models for clients, building and staffing newsrooms, and creating new lines of business.
In the summer of 2013, Joie Chen joinedAl Jazeera America to become sole anchor of their flagship news program,America Tonight. The show went live on 20 August 2013. Presenting long form TV nightly news, Chen has covered a range of human interest stories in the United States, and domestic and international news stories.
Joie Chen lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with her husband, Michael, and her son, Evan.