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Liz Cho : biography

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Liz Cho is a local news anchor at WABC-TV in New York City. She co-anchors the weekday 4 and 6 p.m. editions of Eyewitness News.

Personal life

Cho’s father, Dr. Sang I. Cho (d. March 13, 2009), was a liver and kidney transplant surgeon who headed the team that did the first liver transplant in Boston, Massachusetts, and her mother is Donna (Weltman) Cho.

In 2003, Cho was listed as one of People magazine’s "50 Most Beautiful People". She and husband Evan Gottlieb had daughter Louisa Simone Gottlieb on May 17, 2007, in New York City. She was scheduled to return to work on September 7, 2007.

Cho filed for divorce from Gottlieb in 2012.

Career

Liz Cho attended Boston University, majoring in journalism and history. Her first professional work in journalism was as an assignment editor at New England Cable News in Newton, Massachusetts.

Cho was next a reporter at WPLG in Miami, Florida before moving to ABC News as a Chicago-based correspondent for ABC NewsOne, the network’s affiliate news service. She later co-anchored ABC’s overnight news program, World News Now, with Derek McGinty. During this time, she also served as a correspondent and fill-in anchor for Good Morning America.

Cho started at WABC-TV on July 6, 2003, replacing Diana Williams at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. In 2011, Cho began anchoring the station’s new "First at 4:00" newscast, with David Novarro, filling the hour left vacant by the departure of The Oprah Winfrey Show. In addition, as of 2012, she continues to anchor the 6 p.m. broadcasts with Bill Ritter.