David Dae-Hyun Cho is an American journalist and editor in chief of ''

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''. He was formerly the business editor for ''

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Early life and education

Cho was raised in New York. He was educated at the

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of Music in New York, where he studied piano, before receiving a BA in English Language and Literature from

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in 1995. He then received an MA in Journalism, an MA in International Affairs, as well as an MBA from

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Career

Cho started his career as a staff writer for ''

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'' in 1995 until he took an internship at ''

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'' in 1997. After his internship, Cho joined ''

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'' as a staff writer before assuming the same role at ''

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'' 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 ''

'' in 2001 and was a 2005-06 Knight-Bagehot fellow. Cho's work covering the

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drew admiring attention. He won the Best of Knight-Bagehot Business Journalism Award for his coverage of events leading to the Crisis. His financial crisis coverage was also chosen by the Columbia School of Journalism as one of its "100 Great Stories" of the last century. He was a member of the Washington Post team that won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and contributed to the Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the

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. Cho was named business editor in 2016.

Personal life

Cho married Sarra Pyun on December 30, 2001. They have two sons. Cho's mother is a Methodist pastor and his father is the owner and founder of Netlinc Technologies, a company that manufactures telecommunications hardware in New Jersey.

References

External links

David Cho on Twitter

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