Lisa Distelheim Barron
Lisa Distelheim Barron is an award-winning broadcast journalist whose career has spanned decades and continents. Known for her sharp investigative instincts and unwavering commitment to illuminating the human impact of world events, she has reported on political upheavals, natural disasters, global economic summits, and defining cultural moments as an international correspondent based in Asia for CNN and CNBC.
In 2003, Distelheim Barron relocated to Amman, Jordan, to report on the impending conflict in Iraq as a freelance journalist for major broadcast networks in the United States, Hong Kong, and Australia. She subsequently covered the war from inside Iraq for CBS News Radio and CBS Newspath. For her reporting, she received a Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation and was part of the CBS News team honored with an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association for coverage from Iraq.
Distelheim Barron began her journalism career as a London-based print reporter, writing for Time, Life, The Economist, and The Sunday Times, reporting from the United Kingdom, Europe, and southern Africa.
She is currently a producer for Weigel Broadcasting in Chicago, a national leader in original broadcast entertainment and factual programming. At Weigel, she worked closely with legendary journalist and anchor Bill Kurtis on the history-driven daily series
Through the Decades; interviewed extraordinary women from all walks of life for START TV, the female-focused network launched in partnership with CBS Television Stations; and now travels throughout the country producing stories on remarkable private collections for Collector’s Call, hosted by Lisa Whelchel of The Facts of Life.
Throughout her distinguished career, Distelheim Barron has interviewed world leaders including President Bill Clinton; Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of Pakistan; Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia; President Ma Ying-jeou of the Republic of China (Taiwan); Presidents Fidel Ramos and Joseph Estrada of the Philippines; and President Václav Havel of the Czech Republic. She has also interviewed business and economic leaders including Bill Gates and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, as well as Nobel Peace Prize laureates Lech Wałęsa and Maria Ressa.
Distelheim Barron graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and earned her master’s degree in Government from the London School of Economics, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar.
Today, she brings that same global perspective, journalistic rigor, and commitment to cultural stewardship to her role as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of The Distelheim Gallery™.
