Virginia Cha

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Virginia Cha
Nationality American
OccupationNews anchor

Virginia Cha is a Korean American news anchor for KGTV-TV, San Diego. She was formerly employed at HLN based in Atlanta, and as an NBC News correspondent based in New York.

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Cha graduated from Princeton University and is a Fulbright Scholar.

Professional career

Cha began her news career at WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut. She was a general assignment reporter, substitute anchor, then head anchor and reporter for the morning news. [1]

She then became a news anchor and chief medical correspondent for WBZ TV-4 in Boston, Massachusetts, where she won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Individual Achievement and a National Edward R. Murrow Award for Team Political Coverage. [2]

She was an anchor on MSNBC's MSNBC Live , NBC's NBC Nightly News , [3] and CNN [4] and CNN's HLN.

Personal life

Cha is married to Edward. [5] Cha was Miss Frederick when she entered and won the Miss Maryland 1989 pageant. She was 1st runner-up to Debbye Turner at the 1990 Miss America pageant. She plays the piano.

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References

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  2. "Virginia Cha" (Web). GoGoMag.com. 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
  3. "Virginia Cha" (Web). iMDB. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
  4. "Sailing record set" (Video). CNN. 2010-06-11. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
  5. Live Well Network: "My Family Recipe Rocks Episodes - TV journalist Virginia Cha's Favorite Family Recipes" retrieved February 2, 2017