User:Pip bittersweet/Pauline Chiou

Pauline Chiou is an anchor and correspondent based at CNN’s Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Hong Kong.

Since joining the network, Chiou has reported live on location in Hong Kong on the release of hotel guests quarantined for a week due to the H1N1 flu virus, and from the candlelight vigil where thousands attended events marking the 20th anniversary of the incident at Tiananmen Square. She was also in Seoul, South Korea soon after North Korea’s second nuclear test and traveled to the Demilitarized Zone to cover reaction and the increased tension between the two nations. Whilst in Seoul, she was also on the ground with live reports from the funeral of former South Korean president Roh Moo-Hyun. Previously, Chiou worked for CNN based in Atlanta where her business experience has included reporting live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

Prior to joining CNN, Chiou worked as weekend evening anchor at the CBS station in Boston, Massachusetts and as morning news anchor for the NBC station in Houston, Texas.

In her career, she has covered major international stories including the 2008 U.S. presidential elections, the Iraq war, and the resignations of former White House senior political adviser Karl Rove and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Chiou received a Bachelor of Arts in history from Yale University and a Master of Science in Journalism from Medill School of Journalism. In 2008 she was awarded the Don T. Sheehan International fellowship to attend the annual Wharton Seminars for Business Journalists. At the start of her career she won an Associated Press Award for Feature Reporting for a special series on the Massachusetts National Guard’s peacekeeping missions in Bosnia.