Juju Chang

Hyunju Chang (born September 17, 1965) is an American television journalist for ABC News and an anchor of Nightline. She has previously worked as a special correspondent and fill-in anchor for Nightline, and was also the news anchor for ABC News' morning news program Good Morning America from 2009 to 2011.

Early life Juju Chang was born in Seoul, South Korea, to Okyong Chang and Palki Chang and was raised in Sunnyvale, California, following her family’s immigration to the U.S. in 1969. 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 in 1983. At Stanford, she was awarded the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize. as a desk assistant. producing live events coverage and stories for its "American Agenda" segment. 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. At NewsOne she covered the White House, Capitol Hill and the 1996 presidential election.

Returning to World News Tonight in 1998, she covered such stories as Hurricane Georges, the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. 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. She has produced reporting on serious news events since moving to GMA,

Good Morning America Chang became the first Korean American in a prominent role on a U.S. morning news television show when she joined Good Morning America on December 14, 2009. and finding relatives of a Haitian friend. 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.

For a series of reports airing on Good Morning America from June 25, 2010, Chang traveled to Seoul, South Korea. 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. On March 27, 2014, Chang was named co-anchor of Nightline, replacing Cynthia McFadden, who left ABC to join NBC News.

Other works 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. 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. 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. 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.

In 2015, Chang co-hosted the annual Spring Luncheon held by The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

Chang is the aunt of former MLB pitcher Mitch White.