Andrew Chang (born 15 December 1982) is a Canadian television journalist, best known as a co-anchor of

CBC Television CBC Television (also known as CBC TV) is a Canadian English-language broadcast television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster. The network began operations on September 6, 1952. Its French-l ...

's nightly flagship newscast '' The National''.

Early life

Chang was born on 15 December 1982 in

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and graduated from

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with a degree in journalism. He grew up speaking English in a family where his father spoke Cantonese and his mother spoke Mandarin. After moving to

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

, he became fluent in French.

Broadcasting career

Chang joined the CBC in 2004 at CBC Montreal as a researcher. He was a part of CBC's broadcast team for the

2014 Winter Olympics , ''Zharkie. Zimnie. Tvoi'') , nations = 88 , events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , athletes = 2,873 , opening = 7 February 2014 , closing = 23 February 2014 , opened_by = President Vladimir Putin , cauldron = , stadium = Fisht Olympic ...

. From 2014 to 2017, he was anchor of CBC Vancouver's ''News at 6''. For this work, he won the Best News Anchor, Local award at the

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in 2016 and 2018. On 1 August 2017, he was named co-host of '' The National''. In June 2022, the CBC announced that Chang would be stepping away from ''The National'', and moving to host a new daily program for the CBC's forthcoming streaming news service.David Friend
"CBC makes changes at ‘The National’ ahead of free streaming channel launch"
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'', June 30, 2022. His program, ''About That'', launched on

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on November 30, 2022.Noel Ransome
"CBC launches free ad-supported streaming channel CBC News Explore"
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'', November 30, 2022.

References

External links

CBC biography
* 1982 births Living people 21st-century Canadian journalists Canadian journalists of Chinese descent Canadian Screen Award winning journalists Canadian television news anchors Carleton University alumni CBC Television people People from Ottawa {{Canada-journalist-stub