Juju Chang

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 NewsOne in Washington D.C.[12] At NewsOne 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. embassies in Kenya 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]

Juju Chang anchors Nightline from the Times Square Studios in Midtown Manhattan.

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]