Alina Cho is an American journalist. She was formerly a television correspondent and host of
CNN
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's "Fashion: Backstage Pass", and is an Editor at Large at Ballantine Bantam Dell, a division of
Penguin Random House
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. Cho is responsible for developing and co-editing books in the lifestyle and fashion genre. Cho is also the host of a lecture series at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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called "The Atelier with Alina Cho".
Cho held various posts at
ABC and
CNBC
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. She earned an M.S. from
Northwestern University
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's Medill School of Journalism and a B.A. from
Boston College
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. She lives in Manhattan and Southampton, New York.
Cho was born and raised in
Vancouver, Washington
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.
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1971 births
Living people
Boston College alumni
American television news anchors
Medill School of Journalism alumni
People from Vancouver, Washington
American women television journalists
CNN people
CNBC people
American writers of Korean descent
21st-century American women
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