Aimee Cho is a general assignment reporter for News4.
Cho grew up in Great Falls, Virginia, where she wanted to be a journalist from a young age. She attended Langley High School then Cornell University. Cho wrote for the Cornell Daily Sun and for Ithaca College's student-run TV station.
After being accepted into the prestigious Emma Bowen Foundation Internship Program, Cho spent three summers at NBC4 working in various departments, including the newsroom. At the conclusion of her participation in 2016, NBC4 hired her to be a multimedia journalist.
During her time at NBC4, Cho has won three awards for her work as a multimedia journalist, shooting, writing and editing stories. One was an EMMY from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and two others were awarded by the Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters. Cho also earned an EMMY for a profile of a beloved Bethesda football coach with Down syndrome.
Cho is very involved in the Asian American Journalists Association. She currently lives in Chevy Chase.
The Latest
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Delicious food and a wonderful mission: Emma's Torch provides paid job training for refugees
The nonprofit cafe Emma’s Torch, which opened in D.C. earlier this year, offers paid job training and English lessons for refugees. News4’s Aimee Cho speaks to the founder, a trainer and an employee about how it’s going.
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Families sue after driver hits and kills 2 children near their Maryland school
It’s been one year since a driver hit and killed two young children as they walked to school in Prince George’s County. The victims’ families have now filed lawsuits.
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Loudoun County history lesson involving cotton ‘humiliated' Black students
Some families in Loudoun County, Virginia, are outraged after a high school history class in which the teacher told the students to pass around cotton.
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Legacy of late Tuskegee airman honored at Silver Spring library
The Brigadier General Charles Edward McGee Library hosted a ceremony Thursday morning to honor the legacy of its namesake on what would have been his 105th birthday. Brig. Gen. Charles Edward McGee was a Tuskegee airman and longtime resident of Bethesda, Maryland. He died in January 2022 at 102. “The Tuskegee airmen are people who gave their lives and fought…
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PWC launches nonprofit donations campaign aimed to support panhandlers
Prince William County urges residents to donate to nonprofit organizations that serve unhoused people instead of giving money to panhandlers they may encounter. The Prince William County Board of Supervisors launched a campaign this week called “Give Where it Counts” with the message “handouts don’t help.” The campaign encourages people to donate to nonprofit organizations that can provide support...
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‘We expected it': Former Capitol Police officer reacts to dropped Trump charges
A former U.S. Capitol Police officer who witnessed the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, was disappointed but not surprised by Special Counsel Jack Smith’s announcement this week he will drop election interference charges against President-elect Donald Trump. “We expected it, we saw it coming, we knew it was a possibility when Donald Trump won the election, so we had time…
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Multiple people hurt after Virginia police pursuit ends in fiery crash on Route 1
Multiple people were seriously injured after a police pursuit in Fairfax County ended in a fiery crash Monday night, Virginia State Police say.
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‘Scary': How a woman discovered deepfakes of herself
When Amanda Aguilar saw a video of what appeared to be her speaking, she was stunned. It looked just like her – but it wasn’t. The video was a deepfake.
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Family of 2nd grader injured in school bathroom incident plans to sue district
The parents of a Charles County, Maryland, second grader injured in a school bathroom incident plan to sue the school system. School officials say an alleged accident during horseplay left the boy hanging on a stall hook at Barnhart Elementary School in Waldorf a week-and-a-half ago. He had to be rushed to the hospital. The family says they’re still...
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Excitement grows as Washington Spirit heads to championship
The popularity of women’s sports is on the rise all around the country, with basketball stars such as Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese also driving up the excitement.
