Juju Chang
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Chang in March 2007
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| Born | Hyunju Chang (1965-09-17) September 17, 1965 (age 58) |
| Education | Stanford University (B.A., political science and communication, 1987) |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Title | Special correspondent, Nightline |
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(m. 1995) |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Mitch White (nephew) |
| Website | Juju-Chang-bio |
Hyunju "Juju" Chang[1] (born September 17, 1965) is an American television journalist for ABC News, and is currently an anchor of Nightline.[2] She has previously worked as a special correspondent and fill-in anchor for Nightline, and was also the news anchor for ABC News' morning news program Good Morning America from 2009 to 2011.[3][4]
Juju Chang was born in Seoul, Third Republic of Korea,[3] to Okyong and Palki Chang[5] and was raised in Sunnyvale, California, following her family’s emigration to the U.S. in 1969.[6] She attended Marian A. Peterson High School for one year, but after that school was converted into a middle school, Chang graduated from Adrian C. Wilcox High School in 1983.[3][7] At a young age, Chang was a nationally ranked swimmer.[3]
In 1987, she graduated with honors from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Artsinpolitical science and communications.[8][9] At Stanford, she was awarded the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize.[9]
Chang began work for ABC in 1984[7] as a desk assistant.[2] In 1991 she became a producer and off-air reporter for ABC World News Tonight,[10] producing live events coverage and stories for its "American Agenda" segment.[7] Her off-air reporting assignments included the 1991 Gulf War (during which she was based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia) and the 1992 U.S. presidential election.[7]
For World News Tonight, she produced a series on women's health, which won an Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 1995.[7][11] She left World News Tonight in 1995 to become a reporter for KGO-TV, an ABC affiliate, in San Francisco, covering state and local news topics.[9]
After a year at KGO-TV, Chang returned to ABC News in 1996, taking up the role of correspondent for the ABC affiliate news service NewsOneinWashington D.C.[12]AtNewsOne she covered the White House, Capitol Hill and the 1996 presidential election.[13]
Returning to World News Tonight in 1998, she covered such stories as Hurricane George, the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the bombings of U.S. embassiesinKenya and Tanzania.[3][14] Her first news anchor roles came in 1999, when she hosted the early-morning newscasts of ABC News' World News Now, an overnight news program, and World News This Morning where she reported on national and international news.[7]
Chang has contributed many reports to ABC's news magazine 20/20, including a piece on Tanzania's black market for albino body parts in 2009.[15] She has produced reporting on serious news events since moving to GMA,[3] as well as continuing on ABC's Nightline, where she has reported on a broad range of topics including the Heparin tainting case and the in vitro fertilization industry[3] and has acted as host on the show's feature, "Face-Off".[16]
Chang became the first Korean American in a prominent role on a U.S. morning news television show[17] when she joined Good Morning America on December 14, 2009.[3] She contributes news stories and segments for the show, in addition to her role as news anchor.[13]
As the news anchor on Good Morning America, Chang reported on the earthquake in Haiti in January 2010. She traveled to Haiti to cover the aftermath of the natural disaster,[18] interviewing locals[18][19] and finding relatives of a Haitian friend.[20] She later took part in the Housatonic Valley Sprint Triathlon on September 11, 2010, to raise money for UNICEF's relief efforts in Haiti in collaboration with Good Morning America.[18]
For a series of reports airing on Good Morning America from June 25, 2010, Chang traveled to Seoul, South Korea.[21] During her visit to South Korea, she interviewed South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on the relationship between North and South Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship.[21]
In September 2011, Chang interviewed United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the UN Headquarters.[22]
On March 29, 2011, it was announced that Chang would be leaving Good Morning America to take a full-time role on Nightline, ABC News President Ben Sherwood announced. Chang became a special correspondent and fill-in anchor. She had spent the past 15 months as the news reader for GMA as well as contributor to 20/20 and World News, programs she will continue to work with.[23] On March 27, 2014, Chang was named co-anchor of Nightline, replacing Cynthia McFadden, who left ABC to join NBC News.[24]
In addition to her roles at ABC, Chang has also hosted a series for PBS. In 1999, she was the host of a seven-part television series called The Art of Women's Health.[25] She hosts an interactive digital show for ABC News NOW called Moms Get Real, which aims to show the realities of modern motherhood, she also made a cameo appearance in episode 19 of the second season of ABC's hit primetime drama, Revenge.[19]
For her work in television journalism, Chang has received a number of awards. Her earliest journalistic award was an Alfred I. duPont Award in 1995 for a series on women's health produced with Peter Jennings.[7][11] In addition to the duPont Award, Chang has won two Gracie Awards, one for a report on judicial activism for NOW, a newsmagazine on PBS,[9] and one for Women and Science, a profile of Ben Barres, a transgender neurobiologist, for 20/20.[3] She has won three Emmy awards for her work with ABC, including one for her role as a correspondent on ABC's live coverage of California wildfires in 2008.[3][26] She has also received a Freddie award (for health and medical media) for The Art of Women's Health, a series she hosted for PBS.[9]
Chang married news executive Neal Shapiro on December 2, 1995.[5] At that time, she convertedtoJudaism.[27] Chang and Shapiro have three sons.[3][27] She is active in the Asian-American community as a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation and an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations.[3] As of 2011, the family lived on the West SideofManhattan.[22]
In 2015, Chang co-hosted the annual Spring Luncheon held by The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.[28]
Chang is the aunt of Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Mitch White.[29]
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