Ling served as host and executive producer of, but the show was not renewed last year as the network went through a round of budget cuts. The show explored issues like interracial families, sex trafficking and gun violence., centering on Asian American history and cuisine.for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN, and was host ofand contributed to ABC News’.
She started in journalism as a correspondent for Channel One. Among other assignments, she covered the civil war in Afghanistan when she was just 21.Neeraj Khemlani, president and co-head of CBS News, said in a statement that Ling “delivers some of the most authentic, human and revealing interviews because of how she embeds with communities and the people she covers.”