CNN Headline News - Sophia Choi

Sophia Choi

Sophia Choi is a prime-time news anchor for CNN Headline News. Based in CNN’s world headquarters in Atlanta, Choi joined the network in October 2001 and now co-anchors with Thomas Roberts. Among other stories, Choi has co-anchored the network’s coverage of the Columbia Space Shuttle tragedy in February 2003 as well as the war in Iraq.

Before joining CNN, Choi co-hosted CBS 2 Morning Show at CBS Los Angeles affiliate KCBS-TV. During her tenure at KCBS, Choi created, wrote, produced and served as host of three weekly Hometown Hero story segments that profiled citizens in Los Angeles County who were making positive differences in their communities. She also created, produced and wrote the station’s Trends 2 Watch segments that focused on the latest trends in multiple areas including entertainment, food and fashion. Choi contributed investigative reports to the special assignment unit of the station and received a State Associated Press Award for her series Dirty Downloading in which she reported undercover as a 13-year old boy in order to expose sexual predators on the Internet. Choi was also nominated for both a National Associated Award and an Emmy Award for her overall series reporting.

Before joining KCBS-TV, Choi was the weekend morning news anchor and general assignment reporter at WVTM-TV in Birmingham, Ala. Prior to that, she was a general assignment reporter at WSET-TV in Lynchburg, Va. Choi began her career at KOMU-TV in Columbia, Mo., where she anchored the morning news cut-in segments.

In January 2003, Choi served as one of the marshals in the Rose Bowl Parade in Pasadena, Calif.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri –Columbia.