JuJu Chang

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JuJu Chang (b. September 17, 1965 in Seoul, South Korea)[1][2] is a New York-based Emmy Award-winning correspondent for ABC News' 20/20 and Good Morning America, occasionally anchoring for ABC News Now and Good Morning America's Weekend Edition.

From 1999 - 2000 Chang anchored the early morning newscasts of World News Now and World News This Morning. From 1998 to 1999 she reported primarily for World News Tonight, covering such stories as the bombings of United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Ms. Chang was based in Washington, D.C. from 1996 to 1997, where she covered the White House, Capitol Hill and the 1996 presidential election for NewsOne, ABC's affiliate news service.

Between 1991 and 1995 Chang served as a producer and off-air reporter for World News Tonight. She produced a series on women's health which won a duPont-Columbia Award. Her off-air reporting assignments included the 1992 presidential campaign and the Gulf War in 1991 (she was based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

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[edit] Awards

Chang won a Gracie Award for a PBS Now report on judicial activism and a Freddie Award for a series she hosted for PBS, The Art of Women's Health. She won another Gracie Award for a 20/20 story entitled Women and Science, a profile of the transgender neurobiologist Ben Barres.

[edit] Background

Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University with a BA in political science and communications. At Stanford she was awarded the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize.

[edit] Personal life

Chang is married to Neal Shapiro, former NBC News President.[3] They have three sons: Jared, Travis, and Mason Blake.[4] She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "IMDb Bio"
  2. ^ "WEDDINGS;Neal Shapiro and Juju Chang", The New York Times December 3, 1995. Accessed February 4, 2008. "Ms. Chang, 30, is keeping her name."
  3. ^ WEDDINGS;Neal Shapiro and Juju Chang
  4. ^ ABC News: Hasselbeck: New Baby, New Blog

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