Carol Lin - CNN

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From 1998 – December 30, 2006, Lin served as a news anchor and correspondent for CNN and was based in the network's worldwide headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. During her tenure at CNN, Lin anchored several news programs, including CNN Early Edition, CNN Live at Daybreak, the weekend editions of CNN Newsroom, and the former news-magazine program CNN NewsStand. She traveled the globe to report on numerous breaking news stories for CNN, including the rebuilding of Kosovo, the shootings at Columbine High School, the fall of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, and live from New York City's Times Square as part of CNN's world wide Millennium night coverage.

Additionally, Lin traveled to Jerusalem during the siege of Bethlehem to cover tensions between Israel and the Palestinian territories, and to Salt Lake City in 2002 to cover the Winter Olympics. Later that year she anchored the news coverage of the rescue of nine miners in Somerset, PA who were trapped for 77 hours.

Earlier, Lin played an integral role in CNN's Election 2000 coverage, anchoring live from the New Hampshire Primary, and from the Democratic Convention from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Lin also interviewed many of the key players during the Florida vote recount, including Florida Gov. Jeb Bush CNN transcript. Lin has been cited as an example of political correctness. During CNN's December 6, 2005 broadcast of rioting in Paris, Lin referred to two French youths of Tunisian origin, whose deaths had helped spark the riots, as "African-Americans."