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.
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Maryland to vote on enshrining abortion law
Next week, Maryland voters will be asked to decide if the state should enshrine reproductive freedom in its constitution.
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Hand cycling for a cause: How one veteran is giving back at the Marine Corps Marathon
At Sunday’s Marine Corps Marathon, months and years of training will come down to one race. But for Jeffrey Mellenthin, this race is about finishing the job. Mellenthin served in the Air Force for 20 years as a flight nurse caring for his fellow servicemembers. “The mission was to bring everybody home, no matter what,” Mellenthin said. While on a…
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Marine Corps Marathon weekend kicks off with fitness expo
The MCM’s Health & Fitness Expo is happening Friday and Saturday at Gaylord National Harbor. News4’s Aimee Cho reports.
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Prosecution introduces Instagram messages between girls accused in deadly DC beating
D.C. prosecutors revealed Instagram messages between a group of teenage girls after they allegedly beat an elderly man with disabilities last October. Surveillance footage shows a man attacking Reggie Brown last October on Georgia Avenue NW before five girls ages 12-15 later joined the man, stomping Brown’s head into the pavement and whipping him with his own belt, prosecutors...
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Fairfax County teen lands role in German movie
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Man shot to death in Foot Locker near Maryland mall
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Family of man killed in DC police chase turned hit-and-run speaks
A family from Guinea is desperately searching for answers after their loved one was killed in a hit-and-run in downtown D.C. The driver of the car was fleeing from police. Twenty-five-year-old Alpha Oumar Kake spent more than a month fighting for his life and died of his injuries last week. The crash happened Aug. 31 at 15th and L streets…
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Breast cancer rates rising highest among Asian American women
A new study from MedStar Health shows the majority of women aren’t getting their annual mammograms.
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Man pleads guilty in 1994 slaying of Virginia mother
Stephen Smerk confessed to killing 37-year-old Robin Lawrence at her home in Springfield. Her 2-year-old daughter who was at the home at the time was unharmed, but left alone for days.
