Juju Chang
Juju Chang is a multiple Emmy® Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline.” She also reports regularly for “Good Morning America,” “20/20” and “IMPACT x Nightline” on Hulu.
Chang’s decades-long career is notable for her in-depth personal narratives set against the backdrop of pressing national and international news. After the rise of hate crimes against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community during the pandemic, Chang co-anchored the ABC News Live special “Stop the Hate: The Rise in Violence Against Asian Americans” and the “20/20” special “Murder in Atlanta” following an Atlanta mass shooting.
Chang has done extensive reporting on true crime stories she’s followed for decades for both “IMPACT x Nightline” and “20/20.” This includes Chang’s coverage of intimate partner violence and criminalized survivorship in the Nikki Addimando murder trial featured in “20/20: Kill or Be Killed?,” her report on the twisted story of the notorious serial killer and the fallout with his family in “Deadly Smile: The Happy Face Killer,” the new evidence and support for the brothers serving life sentences for killing their parents in “Menendez Brothers: Monsters or Victims?” and many more.
Chang’s award-winning report “Trans and Targeted” on violence against transgender women of color caps a series of her stories on LGBTQ+ issues. Chang has won multiple GLAAD awards and conducted exclusive television interviews with transgender soldier Chelsea Manning and Lia Thomas, the transgender UPenn swimmer whose case highlighted the debate over trans athletes.
She has reported on mass shootings and gender-based violence, including a trip to Honduras for “Femicide: The Untold War” and through Central Africa on the front lines against Boko Haram and #bringbackourgirls.
Chang has profiled newsmakers and celebrities from Joe Biden to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Her extensive feature reporting covers parenting dilemmas, digital addictions and social media moguls like Dude Perfect and Selena Gomez.
A former news anchor for “Good Morning America,” Chang joined ABC News just after college as an entry-level desk assistant in 1987 and rose to become a producer for “World News Tonight.” After reporting for KGO-TV in San Francisco and the ABC News affiliate service NewsOne in Washington, D.C., she co-anchored the overnight show “World News Now.” Chang’s work has been recognized with numerous awards, including multiple Emmys and Gracies, as well as a DuPont, a Murrow and a Peabody. In 2017, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Front Page Awards.
Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Northern California, Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science and communication. She is married to WNET President and CEO Neal Shapiro and, together, they have three sons who identify as “50% Korean and 100% Jewish.”
Chang is a board member of 92NY, a founding board member of the Korean American Community Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For her work in the AANHPI community, Chang has received numerous honors, including the Justice in Action Award from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
