David Cho (journalist)

David Dae-Hyun Cho is an American journalist, who is currently the business editor for the Washington Post.[1][2]

David Cho
NationalityUnited States
EducationJuilliard School
Alma materYale University, Columbia University
OccupationJournalist
Years active1995-present
EmployerThe Washington Post
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Public Service (2014)

Early life and Education

Cho was raised in New York. He was educated at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, where he studied piano, before receiving a BA in English Language and Literature from Yale in 1995. He then received an MA in Journalism, an MA in International Affairs, as well as an MBA from Columbia University.[3]

Career

Cho started his career as a staff writer for The Korean Herald in 1995 until he took an internship at The New York Times in 1997. After his internship, Cho joined The Philadelphia Inquirer as a staff writer before assuming the same role at The Star-Ledger in 1999, where he was a member of the team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in breaking news for its coverage of a deadly dorm fire at Seton Hall University. He moved to The Washington Post in 2001 and was a 2005-06 Knight-Bagehot fellow.

Cho's work covering the Global financial crisis of 2008 drew admiring attention.[4] He won the Best of Knight-Bagehot Business Journalism Award for his coverage of events leading to the Crisis.[5][6] His financial crisis coverage was also chosen by the Columbia School of Journalism as one of its "100 Great Stories" of the last century.[7] He was a member of the Washington Post team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service[8] and contributed to the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning[9] coverage of the Virginia Tech massacre. Cho was named business editor in 2016.[10]

Personal life

His mother is a Methodist pastor and his father was the founder of several telecommunications companies in New Jersey. Cho is married with two sons.

References
  1. "David Cho - The Washington Post". The Washington Post.
  2. "David Cho | The Washington Post Journalist | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  3. Weddings, Sarra Pyun, David Cho
  4. Jaffe, Harry (29 October 2008). "Post Watch: Steven Pearlstein Works Hard as Economy Goes Off the Cliff". Washingtonian. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
  5. "Knight-Bagehot Alumni Prizes". AHBJ.org. April 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-04-07. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
  6. "David Cho '06 awarded for economic reporting". Columbia Journalism School. 15 January 2009. Archived from the original on 10 December 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
  7. . Columbia University http://centennial.journalism.columbia.edu/2007-the-great-recession/index.html. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/pr/wp/2014/04/14/the-washington-post-wins-two-pulitzer-prizes/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  9. "The 2008 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Breaking News Reporting". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-09-04.
  10. "Washington Post names Cho its business editor". Talking Biz News. 2016-07-19. Retrieved 2020-04-22.


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