Betty Liu

Liu was born in Hong Kong. She moved to the United States when she was three years old, and from age twelve she was raised in Philadelphia. Liu attended Central High School.

Liu graduated in 1995 from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in English.

Liu started her career in financial journalism as a Hong Kong-based regional correspondent and youngest Taiwan Bureau Chief for Dow Jones Newswires.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/11/betty_liu_host_of_bloomberg_tv.php |last=Greppi |first=Michele |title=TV Week: Betty Liu, Host of Bloomberg TV's 'Starting Bell' |work=TV Week |accessdate=2009-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090621052839/http://www.tvweek.com/news/2008/11/betty_liu_host_of_bloomberg_tv.php |archive-date=2009-06-21 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=http://www.ftpress.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=495A9D9D-124A-4A32-80EB-7F08D07143DC|title=Betty Liu |work=Financial Times Press |accessdate=2009-07-29}}

After she left Dow Jones, she worked for several years as the Atlanta Bureau Chief for the Financial Times,{{cite web|url=http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/morning_media_menu/liu_says_despite_less_bad_news_people_are_still_worried_116298.asp|title=Liu Says Despite 'Less Bad News', 'People are Still Worried'|work=TV Newser|accessdate=2009-07-29|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603161258/http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/morning_media_menu/liu_says_despite_less_bad_news_people_are_still_worried_116298.asp|archivedate=2010-06-03}} where she broke stories on top corporate and political leaders such as Coca-Cola ex-chief executive Douglas Daft, former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

Returning to Asia as an anchor and correspondent for CNBC Asia,{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-147107820.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026084224/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-147107820.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-10-26|title=CNBC Asia has added Betty Liu (Hong Kong) and Sri Jegarajah (Singapore) |work=Television Asia |accessdate=2009-07-29}} Liu covered the daily market action in the Greater China region for all of CNBC's morning shows, including for CNBC's Squawk Box.

Over the course of her career, she has also written for The Wall Street Journal and Far Eastern Economic Review

From 2007 to 2018, she worked for Bloomberg Television, formerly anchoring "In the Loop with Betty Liu" from its inception in 2007 until the show's cancelation in June 2015,{{cite news| url=https://www.bloomberg.com/live/schedule-shows | work=Bloomberg | title=Schedule-shows - Bloomberg Business}} which was replaced with "Market Movers". Liu then anchored the morning program "Daybreak Asia" out of NYC and was an Editor-at-Large at Bloomberg.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloombergradio.com/hosts/betty-liu/|title=Betty Liu {{!}} Bloomberg Radio|work=Bloomberg Radio|access-date=2018-01-02|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103072717/https://www.bloombergradio.com/hosts/betty-liu/|archive-date=2018-01-03|url-status=dead}} She also hosted "In the Loop, At the Half" on Bloomberg Radio.

In 2017 Liu founded RadiateInc.com, a subscription website offering business micro-lessons from the top CEOs.

Liu became High Point University's Media Entrepreneur in Residence in October 2017.

Radiate Inc was acquired by Intercontinental Exchange in 2018, and Liu became Executive Vice Chairman of ICE.{{Cite web|date=2018-06-05|title=Intercontinental Exchange Names Betty Liu Executive Vice Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange; NYSE to Acquire Radiate, Inc.|url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180605005932/en/Intercontinental-Exchange-Names-Betty-Liu-Executive-Vice-Chairman-of-the-New-York-Stock-Exchange-NYSE-to-Acquire-Radiate-Inc.|access-date=2022-02-16|website=www.businesswire.com|language=en}}

In 2021, Liu founded [https://www.dandzmedia.com/about/ D and Z Media Acquisition Corp], a SPAC that focuses on the emerging subscription economy.

In 1997, she received a Dow Jones Newswires Award for her coverage of the Asian financial crisis.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}

Her coverage while at FT of the biggest Fortune 500 companies based in the South (Coca-Cola, Home Depot, UPS, FedEx) earned her a spot on TJFR's "Top 30 business journalists under 30 list"{{cite web|url=http://www.newsbios.com/30under30/Past%20Classes.htm |title=Past NewsBios 30 Under 30 Award Winners |work=NewsBios |accessdate=2009-07-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023061508/http://www.newsbios.com/30under30/Past%20Classes.htm |archivedate=2013-10-23 }} three years in a row (2000–2002).

On October 27, 2011, Betty Liu became the first female and Asian student to be inducted into Central High School's Alumni Hall of Fame.[http://centralhighalumni.com/about/alumni-hall-of-fame/ Central High School Hall of Fame], The Associated Alumni of The Central High School of Philadelphia, Central High School, Philadelphia.

In 2012, Bloomberg TV ran an advertising campaign incorrectly touting Liu as "Pulitzer Prize-nominated".{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/06/journalists-please-stop-saying-youre-pulitzer-prize-nominated/326547/ |title=Journalists, Please Stop Saying You Were 'Pulitzer Prize-Nominated' |first=Alexander |last=Abad-Santos |publisher=The Atlantic Wire |date=2012-06-26 |accessdate=2019-04-24}} When contacted by msnbc.com, Bloomberg TV acknowledged the error and said it would correct the ads. The same claim of a Pulitzer nomination was made by the publisher of her biography, Age Smart: Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Midlife and Beyond.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

Liu has been married twice, first to Ohio neurologist Benjamin L. Walter (also a Central High School graduate, whom she married on September 14, 2002 and divorced in 2006[http://www.cnbcfix.com/stars.html CNBCFix: "CNBC Star Profiles"]{{Cite web |url=http://www.judicialview.com/State-Cases/ohio/Civil-Procedure/Walter-v-Liu/10/25104 |title=Judicial View: Case View: "Walter v Liu" |access-date=2011-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121021515/http://www.judicialview.com/State-Cases/ohio/Civil-Procedure/Walter-v-Liu/10/25104 |archive-date=2011-11-21 |url-status=dead }}) and then to William Browning, an Australian news executive whom she met in Hong Kong. They divorced in 2012.{{Cite web |url=http://www.parkplacemag.com/03/2011/balancing-act/ |title="Balancing Act", Park Place Magazine, March 2011 |access-date=2011-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426072417/http://www.parkplacemag.com/03/2011/balancing-act/ |archive-date=2012-04-26 |url-status=dead }}

Liu is a mother of twin boys, Dylan and Zachary, who were born July 21, 2004, by her first husband. They live in Millburn, New Jersey.Anderson, Susan. [http://www.nj.com/insidejersey/index.ssf/2010/09/in_the_loop_with_betty_liu.html "In the loop with Betty Liu"], The Star-Ledger, September 21, 2010

Liu is fluent in Mandarin, and speaks some Cantonese.

• Jeffrey A. Rosensweig, Ph.D. and Betty Liu, Age Smart: Discovering the Fountain of Youth at Midlife and Beyond (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, April 2006 {{ISBN|978-0-13-186762-8}})
• Betty Liu, Work Smarts: What CEOs Say You Need To Know to Get Ahead (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, December 9, 2013 {{ISBN|978-1-118-74467-3}})

• Chinese Americans in New York City
• New Yorkers in journalism

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• [https://www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/tv/ Official website at Bloomberg.com]
• [https://www.cnbc.com/2007/08/03/landing-the-best-deal.html "The Business of Life," Betty Liu, CNBC]
• {{LinkedIn URL|https://www.linkedin.com/in/bettyliubloomberg}}
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