Lisa Ling (凌志慧) born August 30, 1973) is an American journalist, best known for her role as a co-host of ABC’s The View (from 1999–2002), host of National Geographic Explorer, reporter on Channel One News, and special correspondent for the Oprah Winfrey Show and CNN.
She is the sister of Laura Ling, a journalist who was detained and released in 2009 by North Korea. In December 2008, CNN’s award winning documentary Planet in Peril featured Ling in the series’ second installment, called “Battlelines”. She was a correspondent that tracked excessive shark fishing in Costa Rica, elephant poaching in Chad, and gave people an inside look at the battle for the control over oil in Nigeria.
On April 2, 2009, it was announced she will get a talk show on a future channel OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, which will launch in 2010.