Serena Yang
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Serena Yang is an American television journalist, producer and documentary film director, best known for her series Eye of the Beholder with Serena Yang on the Discovery HD Channel and the Travel Channel, and her role as the West Coast Correspondent of CNN’s World Beat.
Born in Englewood, New Jersey and raised in Portland, Oregon, Yang began traveling with her globetrotting family from the age of six. At age 19, while still earning her degree in Broadcast Journalism at the University of Southern California, she began her broadcasting career in Hong Kong as a writer, producer and reporter for TVB, covering fashion, business and technology as part of the network’s primetime news magazine team.
A former international correspondent for CNN, Yang has spent her career bridging cultures and ideas that span the globe. As the West Coast Correspondent for World Beat, CNN’s groundbreaking international music series, she anchored specials from Hong Kong to Montreal, covered the Grammy Awards and international WOMAD festivals, and interviewed the world’s most renowned musicians, from Bono and Beyoncé to Carlos Santana and James Brown.
Prior to joining CNN, Yang was a writer, producer and reporter for E! Entertainment Television’s E! Features, a weekly series on the making of major motion pictures, interviewing many of the most respected artists in Hollywood.
Some of her notable interviews include Robert DeNiro, Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford, Sean Penn, Glenn Close, Al Pacino, Susan Sarandon, Sydney Pollack, Demi Moore, Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, John Cleese, Julia Roberts and Oprah Winfrey.
An intrepid producer, interviewer, and cultural explorer, she established Serena Yang Productions in 1998, producing programming for CNN, MGM, Miramax, The Walt Disney Company and Paramount Pictures on subjects ranging from Mongolian throat-singing to the inner-workings of the CIA.
Most recently, Yang traveled the world for Discovery Networks as the creator, executive producer and host of the series, Eye of the Beholder, on a quest to examine and expand our definitions of beauty by exploring the world’s most fascinating subcultures.
In 2007, Yang signed a development deal with FremantleMedia. The agreement includes five new series created by Yang that seek to dismantle our judgments about beauty, love and holistic health.
