  carol lin is an american journalist, best known as the first television news anchor to break the news to a worldwide audience of the terrorist attacks on the united states on september 11, 2001, reporting for cnn. lin previously worked for abc news, contributes reports to npr, and is the founder of carollinreporting.com. ==career== ===abc news=== before joining cnn, lin was with abc news where she served as a national correspondent and substitute anchor for good morning america and also reported for world news tonight with peter jennings. while with abc news, lin provided national reports on the freeman standoff in montana, the unibomber arrest, the north dakota floods, and the jon benet murder case, among other stories. before joining abc news, lin served as a weekend news anchor for kttv in los angeles where she worked in the special undercover investigations unit. she started her reporting career at the washington, d.c., bureau of conus communications where she covered the reagan presidency. ===cnn=== from 1998 &ndash; 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,cnn transcript and to salt lake city in 2002 to cover the winter olympics. 
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