 In 2000, a senior producer for CNN invited Stout to work as a "television and dotcom reporter" after listening to her give a speech about the internet in China at the Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong.Starting from 2001, she hosted the daily "World Report" which earned her a 2006 Asian Television Award as Best News Presenter or Anchor when it was still called "CNN Today".She occasionally also hosts the talk show "Talk Asia".