Juju Chang: Difference between revisions

| birth_place = [[Seoul]], [[Third Republic of Korea|South Korea]]<ref name=Beacon/>

| education = [[Stanford University]] (B.A., [[political science]] and [[Communication studies|communication]], 1987) <ref name="STANFORDHALLOFFAME">[https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/volunteering/awards/halloffame "Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame"], Stanford University Alumni news</ref>

| title = [[War correspondent|Special correspondent]],<ref name=Beacon/> ''[[Nightline]]''

'''Hyunju "Juju" Chang'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iamkoream.com/up-close-and-personal-with-juju/|title=Up Close and Personal With JuJu Chang|author=Jinah Kim|publisher=[[KoreAm]]|date=December 13, 2010|access-date=May 2, 2015}}</ref> (born September 17, 1965) is an American [[Broadcast journalism|television journalist]] for [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]], and is currently serves as an anchor of ''[[Nightline]]''.<ref name=NightlineCoAnchor>{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/nightline-anchor-juju-changs-biography/story?id=23411705|title=Juju Chang: 'Nightline' Co-Anchor|date=April 21, 2014|publisher=Yahoo!-ABC News Network|access-date=May 2, 2015}}</ref> She has previously servedworked as a special correspondent and fill-in anchor for ''[[Nightline]],'' and was also the [[News presenter|news anchor]] for [[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]' [[Breakfast television|morning news program]] ''[[Good Morning America]]'' from 2009–20112009 to 2011.<ref name=Beacon/><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.tvguide.com/News/Chang-Elliott-GMA-1031223.aspx?rss=breakingnews|title=Juju Chang Out, Josh Elliott In at Good Morning America|publisher=[[TV Guide]]|access-date=2011-03-29}}</ref>

Juju Chang was born in [[Seoul]], [[SouthThird Republic of Korea]],<ref name=Beacon>{{cite web|url=http://www.koreanbeacon.com/2010/01/05/good-morning-america-welcomes-Juju-chang|title=GMA Welcomes Juju Chang|date=January 5, 2010|publisher=Korean Beacon.com|access-date=October 20, 2010}}</ref> to Okyong and Palki Chang<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|title=Weddings; Neal Shapiro and Juju Chang|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 3, 1995|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9401EFDD1E39F930A35751C1A963958260|access-date=October 21, 2010}}</ref> and was raised in [[Sunnyvale, California]], following her family’s emigration to the U.S. in 1969.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/reporters-notebook-1992-riots-la-painful-awakening-korean/story?id=47104538|title=Riots or uprising? 25 years since the Rodney King verdict, a Korean American story|date=2017-05-01|website=ABC News|access-date=2017-10-02}}</ref> 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 ofin 1983.<ref name=Beacon/><ref name=Korea/> At a young age, Chang was a nationally ranked swimmer.<ref name="Beacon"/>

In 1987, she graduated with honors from [[Stanford University]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[political science]] and [[Communication studies|communications]].<ref name="STANFORDHALLOFFAME">[https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/volunteering/awards/halloffame "Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame"], Stanford University Alumni news</ref><ref name=MIT>{{cite web|url=http://mitworld.mit.edu/speaker/view/587|title=Juju Chang|work=MIT World|publisher=MIT|access-date=20 October 2010}}</ref> At Stanford, she was awarded the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize.<ref name=MIT/>

Chang began work for ABC in 1984<ref name=Korea>{{cite news|title=Korean-American Takes Post of Anchorwoman at ABC News|newspaper=[[The Korea Times]]|date=September 7, 1999}}</ref> as a desk assistant.<ref name=NightlineCoAnchor/> In 1991 she became a [[television producer|producer]] and [[reporter|off-air reporter]] for ''[[ABC World News Tonight]]'',<ref name=Starr>{{cite news|title=Morning Shift - Juju is in at 'GMA'; Chris Seeing '20/20'?|author=Michael Starr|newspaper=The New York Post|date= December 9, 2009}}</ref> producing live events coverage and stories for its "American Agenda" segment.<ref name=Korea/> Her off-air reporting assignments included the 1991 [[Gulf War]] (during which she was based in [[Dhahran]], [[Saudi Arabia]]) and the [[1992 United States presidential election|1992 U.S. presidential election]].<ref name=Korea/>

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 ''[[ABC News (United States)#Other forms of broadcasting|NewsOne]]'' in [[Washington D.C.]]<ref name=Star>{{cite news|title=New York bound|newspaper=The Star-Ledger|date=April 9, 1997}}</ref> At ''NewsOne'' she covered

[[File:Times Square Studios - GMA (48105884053).jpg|thumb|Juju Chang anchors ''[[Nightline]]'' from the [[Times Square Studios]] in [[Midtown Manhattan]].]]

Chang has contributed many reports to ABC's [[news magazine]] ''[[20/20 (American TV program)|20/20]]'', including a piece on [[Tanzania]]'s black market for [[albino]] body parts in 2009.<ref name=Chang>{{cite web|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-27/Juju-chang-albino-crimes-seeing-improvement-in-africa|title=Hope After An Unspeakable Crime|author=Juju Chang|date=August 27, 2010|work=The Daily Beast.com|access-date=October 20, 2010}}</ref> She has produced reporting on serious news events since moving to ''GMA'',<ref name=Beacon/> 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<ref name=Beacon/> and has acted as host on the show's feature, "Face-Off".<ref name=Kinon>{{cite news|title=Fat 'Face Off' on ABC's 'Nightline' with Juju Chang is timely due to Coco Rocha, Kevin Smith news|author=Cristina Kinon|newspaper=NY Daily News|date=February 22, 2010|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2010/02/23/2010-02-23_Juju_chang_fat_face_off_on_abcs_nightline_is_timely_due_to_coco_rocha_kevin_smit.html|access-date=October 22, 2010}}</ref>

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''.<ref name=Oklahoman>{{cite news|title=Series will focus on women's health|newspaper=The Oklahoman|date=September 29, 2005}}</ref> 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.<ref name=Chang2/>

Chang married news executive [[Neal Shapiro]] on December 2, 1995.<ref name=NYT/> At that time, she [[Conversion to Judaism|converted]] to [[Judaism]].<ref name=Finn/> Chang and Shapiro have three sons: Jared (b. 2000), Travis (b. 2003), and Mason (b. 2007).<ref name="Beacon"/><ref name=Finn>{{cite news|title=Family First, Baseball a Close Second|author=Robert Finn|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 29, 2010|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/nyregion/31routine.html?_r=2&src=twt&twt=NYTimesAd|access-date= November 17, 2010}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=Beacon/> As of 2011, the family lived on the [[West Side (Manhattan)|West Side]] of [[Manhattan]].<ref name=TopDiplomat>{{cite web|url=https://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/juju-chang-juggling-pre-school-worlds-top-diplomat-145018939.html|title=Juju Chang: Juggling Pre-School, World's Top Diplomat|author=Juju Chang|publisher=Yahoo - ABC News Network|date=September 14, 2011|access-date=May 2, 2015}}</ref>

In 2015, Chang co-hosted the annual Spring Luncheon held by The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blacktiemagazine.com/society_2015_april/NYSPCC_Spring_Luncheon_2015.htm|title=Black Tie International: NYSPCC Annual Spring Luncheon|publisher=Black Tie Magazine|access-date=May 2, 2015}}</ref>

Chang is the aunt of [[TorontoMilwaukee Blue JaysBrewers]] pitcher [[Mitch White (baseball)|Mitch White]].<ref name="jujumitch">{{cite video|url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/la-dodgers-pitcher-success-familys-american-dream-72803170|title=New LA Dodgers pitcher is a success of family’sfamily's American dream|time=00:56|publisher=ABC News|date=September 3, 2020|access-date=September 6, 2020}}</ref>

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