Virginia Cha

Virginia Cha is a Korean American who is a CNN Headline News news anchor based in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining CNN in 2005, Cha was an NBC correspondent based in New York. Cha, a former Miss Maryland was also first runner up in the Miss America pageant.

Background

Cha graduated from Governor Thomas Johnson High School.

She graduated from Princeton University.

Cha, a Fulbright Scholar, holds a Master's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor's degree in comparative literature and East Asian studies from Princeton University.

Professional career

Cha began her news career at WFSB in Hartford, Connecticut. She was an anchor and reporter for the morning news and prior to that, she served as the stations general assignment reporter and substitute anchor.

She then became a news anchor and chief medical correspondent for WBZ-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.

After, she went to MSNBC to work as an anchor on MSNBC Live. She went on to work at NBC.

Notables

*Virginia Cha was Maryland's Junior Miss.
*While attending college, she had the voice part of Soprano I as a member of the Tigressions of Princeton University, a women’s a cappella singing group.
*She was Miss Frederick when she entered and won the Miss Maryland pageant.
*She plays the piano.