Hyunju "Juju" Chang was born on September 17,1965 and is an American television journalist for ABC News, and currently serves as an anchor of Nightline.
23 Facts About Juju Chang
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Juju Chang previously served as a special correspondent and fill-in anchor for Nightline, and was the news anchor for ABC News' morning news program Good Morning America from 2009 to 2011.
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Juju Chang was born in Seoul, Third Republic of Korea, to Okyong and Palki Chang and was raised in Sunnyvale, California, following her family's emigration to the US in 1969.
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Juju Chang 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.
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At a young age, Chang was a nationally ranked swimmer.
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Juju Chang began work for ABC in 1984 as a desk assistant.
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Juju Chang's off-air reporting assignments included the 1991 Gulf War and the 1992 US presidential election.
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Juju Chang 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.
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Juju Chang 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 Heparin tainting case and the in vitro fertilization industry and has acted as host on the show's feature, "Face-Off".
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Juju Chang became the first Korean American in a prominent role on a US morning news television show when she joined Good Morning America on December 14,2009.
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Juju Chang contributes news stories and segments for the show, in addition to her role as news anchor.
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Juju Chang traveled to Haiti to cover the aftermath of the natural disaster, interviewing locals and finding relatives of a Haitian friend.
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Juju Chang 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.
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In September 2011, Juju Chang interviewed United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the UN Headquarters.
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On March 29,2011, it was announced that Juju Chang would be leaving Good Morning America to take a full-time role on Nightline, ABC News President Ben Sherwood announced.
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On March 27,2014, Juju Chang was named co-anchor of Nightline, replacing Cynthia McFadden, who left ABC to join NBC News.
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Juju Chang's earliest journalistic award was an Alfred I duPont Award in 1995 for a series on women's health produced with Peter Jennings.
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Juju Chang 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.
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Juju Chang has received a Freddie award for The Art of Women's Health, a series she hosted for PBS.
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Juju Chang married news executive Neal Shapiro on December 2,1995.
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Juju Chang 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.
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In 2015, Juju Chang co-hosted the annual Spring Luncheon held by The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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Juju Chang is the aunt of Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Mitch White.