Elise Hu

Elise Hu
Born	St. Louis, Missouri
Status	Married
Education	University of Missouri-Columbia
Occupation	Journalist, writer
Employer	National Public Radio
Children	Eva (born September 2012) Isabel (born July 2015)

Elise Hu is an American broadcast journalist who reports for NPR's on-air and online platforms. She's currently an international correspondent for NPR and serving as the network's first Seoul, South Korea bureau chief.

Hu was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Chinese-American immigrants, and grew up in suburban Missouri and Texas. She earned a bachelors in broadcast journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. She speaks Mandarin Chinese.

Hu joined NPR in 2011 and opened the South Korea/Japan bureau in early 2015. Previously, she was a founding journalist at the digital news startup, the Texas Tribune and television reporter for KVUE-TV and WYFF-TV, among other stations.

Her reporting has been honored with a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Video, a Gannett Foundation Award for Innovation in Watchdog Journalism, beat reporting awards from the Texas Associated Press and the Austin Chronicle twice named her "Best of Austin" for reporting and social media work.

Hu is also a guest co-anchor on Tech News Today on TWIT, an adjunct instructor for Georgetown University and an adviser and blogger for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

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