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Juju Chang was born on September 17, 1965, she is an American television journalist for ABC News, and currently serves as an anchor of Nightline. Previously she served as a special correspondent and fill-in anchor for Nightline. She was also the news anchor for ABC News’ morning news program Good Morning America from 2009–2011.
Juju ChangJuju Chang Biography
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. During her young age, Chang was a nationally ranked swimmer.
Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and communications in 1987. At Stanford, she was awarded the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize.
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In 1984 Chang began working for ABC as a desk assistant. She also became a producer and off-air reporter for World News Tonight in 1991, producing live events coverage and stories for its “American Agenda” segment. Chang’s off-air reporting assignments included the 1991 Gulf War during this time she was based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and the 1992 U.S. presidential election.
For World News Tonight, Chang produced a series on women’s health, which won an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award in 1995. later 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.
After serving at KGO-TV in a year, Chang returned to ABC News in 1996, taking up the role of correspondent for the ABC affiliate news service NewsOne in Washington D.C. At NewsOne Chang covered the White House, Capitol Hill, and the 1996 presidential election.
After she Returned 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. She started her role as an anchor 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.
Juju Chang Nightline
Chang would leave Good Morning America to take a full-time role on Nightline, this was reported by ABC News president Ben Sherwood on March 29, 2011. She became a special correspondent and fill-in anchor. Chang had spent 15 months as the newsreader for GMA as well as a contributor to 20/20 and wolrd News programs she will continue to work with. When Cynthia McFadden, left Nightline on March 27, 2014, to go and join NBC News Chang replaced her and she became a Nightline anchor.
Juju Chang Age
Chang was born on September 17, 1965, in Seoul, South Korea.
Juju Chang Family
Chang was born in Seoul, South Korea, she is a daughter of Okyong and Palki Chang, and she along with her sister was raised in Sunnyvale, California, following her family’s emigration to the U.S. in 1969.
Juju Chang Husband
Chang married her husband Neal Shapiro on December 2, 1995. At that time, Chang converted to Judaism. The couple has three sons: Jared (b. 2000), Travis (b. 2003), and Mason (b. 2007). 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. From 2011, the family lived on the West Side of Manhattan. Juju Chang co-hosted the annual Spring Luncheon held by The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 2015.
Juju Chang Children
She has three sons: Jared (b. 2000), Travis (b. 2003), and Mason (b. 2007).
Juju Chang Height
Chang stands at a height of 5feet 5inch.
Juju Chang Salary Range
She earns an annual salary averaging between $ 50,292 – $ 80,507.
Juju Chang Net Worth Range
Her net worth is estimated to be $300 thousand.
Juju Chang Neal Shapiro
ABC News correspondent JuJu Chang is married to Neal Shapiro. Shapiro was born on March 9, 1958. He is the president and CEO of WNET. Previously he worked as the President of NBC News and the executive producer of Dateline NBC. Apart from this he has spent 13 years as a news producer at ABC News.