Elise Hu (born February 17, 1982) is an American broadcast journalist.

She hosts the TED Talks Daily podcast[1] and serves as host-at-large for NPR.

[4] Her father defected from China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, and her mother is from Taiwan.

[7] During high school, she and friends were paid $100 each to appear in national 7-Up advertisements, after which agents scouted Hu to work as a model for a few years into college.

[10] Hu began her career as a television reporter for stations including KWTX-TV,[11] KVUE-TV and WYFF-TV, and then was among the founding journalists at the Texas Tribune, a digital news startup.