Janet Choi

(CBS)  Janet Choi was named a correspondent for CBS Newspath in December 2009. Based in New York, Choi will report for CBS Newspath, the network's 24-hour television news service to CBS stations and broadcasters throughout the world.

Previously, Choi was a reporter for KTLA/The CW News in Los Angeles. While there, she covered community-driven social issues in Los Angeles and the surrounding area in her regular series called "Your L.A. with Janet Choi". Her groundbreaking report on Asians in the Los Angeles region garnered an Edward R. Murrow award for Best Regional News Documentary. In addition, she received the RTNDA's Golden Mike award as well as an Emmy nomination.

Prior to joining KTLA, Choi was the senior international correspondent at Channel One News. In this role, she traveled extensively, reported from over 42 countries and provided context of world events for the unique news channel which reached almost 40% of America's teens every day. Choi covered many major news stories, including Operation Iraqi Freedom, where she was one of the youngest television reporters overseas and one of the few female reporters embedded on the Navy's USS Constellation. She also has reported from Baghdad and Tikrit in Iraq; covered Columbia's infamous cocaine trail; reported from inside China's strictly monitored borders during the U.S. spy plane incident; flown a relief mission over Afghanistan; and investigated deforestation in Brazil and the return of valuable land to its indigenous Panara Indians.

Choi's investigative reporting has earned her a Gold Telly and a Gold Hugo from Chicago's International Television Awards for her report and documentary, "Secret Nation", clandestinely shot while inside North Korea. For her follow-up documentary "Secret Lives," Choi traveled with Christian missionaries along the border between North Korea and China and reported on the North Korean refugees.

Choi also has been a contributing correspondent for Current Vanguard News. Her reports that were featured during its launch season helped to establish the style used today on their news programs.

Choi has interviewed world leaders including former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and she was the only journalist in the world to interview Taiwanese Vice President Madame Lu Hsiu-lien from her top-secret hospital room.

A Chicago native, Choi is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and studied at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, and at the Charles University in the Czech Republic. She began her journalism career at WNUR, the largest college radio station in the country and has written reviews for Spin Magazine and educational commentary for EncyclopediaBritannica.com.