Alina Cho is CNN’s national correspondent. She also contributes to ‘Early Start’ and ‘Starting Point’ that are famous morning shows on CNN. She has been working for CNN since 2004.She is one of the few reporters at CNN who are allowed to report live from North Korea.
Personal
Alina Cho was born in Vancouver, Washington. Her parents are from Seoul, South Korea. Cho grew up in Vancouver and completed her post-graduate studies at the Medill School of Journalism, which is situated in the North Western University. Taking up a career in Journalism had always been her ultimate goal and she accomplished it steadfastly. She is not married and does not reveal much about her personal life.
Profession
Alina Cho started her career as reporter for Chicago land Television Network. She later joined WFTS, which is an affiliate of ABC, situated in Tampa Florida. She worked as reporter and the anchor for the morning show there. During her stint at WFTS, she won the regional Emmy award for her coverage of the St. Petersburg riots of 1996. She then shifted to CNBC as news anchor and reported on a wide variety of stories including the September 11 attacks in New York. Cho subsequently moved on to ABC as regular substitute anchor for the shows ‘World News This Morning’ and ‘World News Now’. She also worked as the online news correspondent for the network on the show ABC News Live. She worked simultaneously at the network’s affiliate news service News One. She then joined CNN as general assignment correspondent for the New York Bureau.
Achievements
Alina Cho has reported on numerous key stories worldwide. She had reported the pre Iraq war situation from United Nations, the sniper attacks in 2002 near Washington D.C., and the September 11 terror attacks in New York. She has reported live from North Korea. She had reported the historical unveiling of Communist leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang in the year 2010. She did a program on the division of North and South Korea as seen by her parents who had survived the Korean War. She also visited North Korea in 2008 as part of the press delegates touring with New York Philharmonic.
Cho was part of the team that won the Emmy Award and Peabody Award for the coverage of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The Old Dominion University has awarded her an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters for her contribution to journalism.
| Birth Date: | 30 Nov, 1970 |
| Age: | 49 yrs |
| Occupations: | Journalist |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Vancouver |
| Education: | Medill School of Journalism Boston College |
| Gender: | Female |
| Description: | American journalist |
