Chang has contributed many reports to ABC's news magazine20/20, 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]
Good Morning America
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]
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]
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.[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]
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 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 transgenderneurobiologist, 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]
Personal life
Chang married news executive Neal Shapiro on December 2, 1995.[5] At that time, she converted to Judaism.[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 Side of Manhattan.[22]
In 2015, Chang co-hosted the annual Spring Luncheon held by The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.[28]
^Michael Starr (December 9, 2009). "Morning Shift - Juju is in at 'GMA'; Chris Seeing '20/20'?". The New York Post.
^ ab"1995 Silver Baton". duPontAwards.org. The Alfred I. duPont Awards Columbia University. Archived from the original on October 22, 2010. Retrieved October 22, 2010.
^"New York bound". The Star-Ledger. April 9, 1997.
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