Frances Kuo is a correspondent and producer for CGTN America where she’s worked since 2014.
She’s covered major international stories including the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Presidential election of Joe Biden and U.S.-China trade issues. She focuses on enterprise stories that profile interesting people and trends across the U.S. and beyond.
Previously, she spent five years working as a reporter and producer for NBC News Channel, where she worked on the Foreign Desk and had the opportunity to cover the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Prior to NBC, she spent 10 years as a reporter and fill-in anchor at various local TV stations across the U.S.
She also has extensive experience in academia, having worked as an adjunct professor in journalism and communication theory. She currently serves as a frequent lecturer and mentor at the Washington, D.C. bureau of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Frances speaks Mandarin Chinese and French, which she studied in Paris during her junior year in college. Spanish is still a work in progress!
She’s a proud alumna of Cornell University and Northwestern University.
Chocolate is one of the most popular foods in the world, but it also has a dark side. The industry is considered one of the most detrimental to the environment and least sustainable because of deforestation and abusive labor practices. A couple in Virginia founded […] Read More...
Some of us experience this when we’re away — missing the food we enjoy at home. That’s what happened with one woman who moved from China to the Washington, D.C. area. So, she decided to start a business — to share the prized dish from […] Read More...
The Covid-19 pandemic created a turbulent economic climate that saw many U.S. businesses struggle to make ends meet, including those in the restaurant industry. So it must have come as a surprise to some in Washington D.C. to see the opening of a new Vietnamese […] Read More...
The Very Asian Foundation is an organization founded to shine a light on Asian experiences through advocacy and celebration. Since its inception earlier this year, the foundation has blossomed and is getting lots of support within and beyond the Asian community. As a TV […] Read More...
Why crowd caused deaths are not uncommon in the world? CGTN’s Frances Kuo interviews a professor who studied the science of crowds for decades and tells why. Read More...
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