David Cho
Washington, D.C.
Business editor
Education: Yale University, BA; Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, MA, with honors; Columbia Business School, MBA, with honors; Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, MIA; Juilliard School of Music, pre-college division for piano
David first took on editing in 2010, leading coverage of the robo-signing scandal during the mortgage crisis and managing award-winning projects on the troubling ways tech companies obtain materials to make lithium batteries and a series on compromised medical research, which won a George Polk Award. He also edited parts of The Post's work on the Snowden documents, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
Before becoming an editor, David was one of the Post's lead writers of the 2008 financial crisis, revealing the government’s rescue of Lehman Brothers and the payment of bonuses to m