Shannon Sohn
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shannon Paige Sohn (born February 27, 1974) is a television news reporter at WABC-TV Eyewitness News in New York City, where she became the first helicopter reporter to win a national Emmy Award.[1]
Sohn grew up in Old Bridge Township, New Jersey, and graduated from Cedar Ridge High School in 1992. She attended Rutgers University, majoring in journalism and communications with a minor in advertising. While in college, Sohn spent two years as an intern at WCTC News Radio in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Shortly before her graduation, WCTC offered her a position as a weekend news anchor and to fill a vacancy in the station's aerial traffic reporter spot, which was being vacated by Dan Rice who was heading to WABC-TV in New York City. Sohn won a reporting award from the Associated Press while at WCTC.[1]
In 2000, she earned a degree in broadcast meteorology degree through courses taken online at Mississippi State University.