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Host Bio
Juju Chang is a New York-based correspondent who contributes to ABCNEWS' 20/20; World News Tonight With Peter Jennings and Good Morning America. In the fall, she will be hosting a Lifetime program entitled "Speaking of Women's Health".
From 1999-2000 she also anchored the early morning newscasts of World News Now and World News This Morning. Most recently, Chang has reported for 20/20, and her recent stories include interviews of Barry White, Internet billionaire Mark Cuban and a piece on video voyeurism on the Web. She also hosts a show for ABC Productions called SheTV, which features health and lifestyle information for women and airs on the Discovery Health Network. From 1998 to 1999, Chang reported primarily for World News Tonight, covering such stories as the U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya, Hurricane Georges and the anniversary of the nuclear accident in Chernobyl. From 1997 to 1998 she was a correspondent for ABCNEWS, reporting primarily for the weekend news.
Chang was based in Washington, D.C., from 1996 to 1997, where she covered the White House, Capitol Hill and the 1996 presidential election for NewsOne, ABC's affiliate news service. She also covered a number of major national stories, including the TWA and ValuJet plane crashes.
Prior to NewsOne, Chang was a reporter for KGO-TV in San Francisco from 1995 to 1996. Between 1991 and 1995, she served as a producer and off-air reporter for ABCNEWS, producing spot news and "American Agenda" stories for World NewsTonight. She was a producer of the World News Tonight series on women's health, which won a duPont-Columbia Award. Her off-air reporting assignments included the 1992 presidential campaign. During the Gulf War in 1991, she was based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
Chang joined ABCNEWS in 1987 and has covered a variety of national and international stories, including the devastation caused by Hurricane Georges in the Caribbean, the aftermath of the United States embassy bombing in Kenya and the burial of Czar Nicholas Romanoff in Russia. She also reported from the Ukraine on the long-term effects of Chernobyl.
Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in political science and communications. At Stanford, she was awarded the Edwin Cotrell Political Science Prize.
She was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Sunnyvale, California. Chang is married to Neal Shapiro, and they are the proud parents of a baby boy, Jarrett whom they reside with in New York City.
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