Hyunju "Juju" Chang (born September 17, 1965) is an American television journalist for

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, and currently serves as an anchor of ''

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''. She previously served as a special correspondent and fill-in anchor for ''

,'' and was also the

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for

' morning news program ''

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'' from 2009 to 2011.

Early life

Juju Chang was born in

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, Third Republic of Korea, to Okyong and Palki Chang and was raised in

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, following her family’s emigration to the U.S. in 1969. 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’s graduating class of 1983. At a young age, Chang was a nationally ranked swimmer. In 1987, she graduated with honors from

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with a

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political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...

and

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. At Stanford, she was awarded the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize.

Career

Early career

Chang began work for ABC in 1984 as a desk assistant. In 1991 she became a producer and off-air reporter for ''

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'', producing live events coverage and stories for its "American Agenda" segment. Her off-air reporting assignments included the 1991

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(during which she was based in Dhahran,

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) and the 1992 U.S. presidential election. For ''World News Tonight'', she produced a series on

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, which won an

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in 1995. She left ''World News Tonight'' in 1995 to become a reporter for

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, an ABC affiliate, in

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, covering state and local news topics.

Return to ABC News

After a year at KGO-TV, Chang returned to ABC News in 1996, taking up the role of

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for the ABC affiliate news service '' NewsOne'' in Washington D.C. At ''NewsOne'' she covered the

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and the 1996 presidential election. 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

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and

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. Her first news anchor roles came in 1999, when she hosted the early-morning newscasts of ABC News' ''

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'', an overnight news program, and ''

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'' where she reported on national and international news.

20/20 and ''Nightline''

Times Square Studios - GMA (48105884053)

Chang has contributed many reports to ABC's

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'', including a piece on

's black market for

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body parts in 2009. She has produced reporting on serious news events since moving to ''GMA'', as well as continuing on ABC's ''Nightline'', where she has reported on a broad range of topics including the

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tainting case and the in vitro fertilization industry and has acted as host on the show's feature, "Face-Off".

Good Morning America

Chang became the first

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in a prominent role on a U.S. morning news television show when she joined ''

'' on December 14, 2009. She contributes news stories and segments for the show, in addition to her role as news anchor. 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, interviewing locals and finding relatives of a Haitian friend. She later took part in the

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Sprint Triathlon on September 11, 2010, to raise money for

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's relief efforts in Haiti in collaboration with ''Good Morning America''. For a series of reports airing on ''Good Morning America'' from June 25, 2010, Chang traveled to

, South Korea. During her visit to South Korea, she interviewed South Korean President

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on the relationship between North and South Korea following the sinking of a South Korean warship. In September 2011, Chang interviewed

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Secretary General

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at the UN Headquarters.

Nightline

On March 29, 2011, it was announced that Chang would be leaving ''

'' to take a full-time role on Nightline, ABC News President

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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. On March 27, 2014, Chang was named co-anchor of Nightline, replacing

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, who left ABC to join NBC News.

Other work

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''. 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.

Awards

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

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. In addition to the duPont Award, Chang has won two Gracie Awards, one for a report on

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for '' NOW'', a newsmagazine on PBS, and one for ''Women and Science'', a profile of Ben Barres, a

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, for ''20/20''. 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. 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.

Personal life

Chang married news executive

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on December 2, 1995. At that time, she

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. Chang and Shapiro have three sons: Jared (b. 2000), Travis (b. 2003), and Mason (b. 2007). 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

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. As of 2011, the family lived on the West Side of

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. In 2015, Chang co-hosted the annual Spring Luncheon held by The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Chang is the aunt of

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pitcher Mitch White.

References

External links

Official biography
at ABCNews.com * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chang, Juju 1965 births Living people ABC News personalities American television news anchors American television reporters and correspondents American women television journalists American writers of Korean descent South Korean emigrants to the United States People from Seoul Stanford University alumni People from Sunnyvale, California Converts to Judaism News & Documentary Emmy Award winners 20th-century American women 21st-century American women