Career
A Chinese American, he was an award-winning broadcast journalist based in New York from 1989 to 2016. He was most recently a freelance correspondent for the Weekend Columbia Broadcasting System Evening News. He was a general assignment and investigative reporter for WNYW, the FOX affiliate in New New York
Before joining WCBS in 2005, Chang worked as a general assignment/investigative television reporter at W National Broadcasting Company-television Prior to that, he was the host of his own talk show, New York Hotline on Way of New York City-television Chang also worked as an investigative producer at American Broadcasting Company News and as a reporter at WLOX in Biloxi, Mississippi, KYW-television in Philadelphia, KUSA in Denver and WJBK in Detroit.
Chang is a native New Yorker, and grew up on the Upper West Side. He has a Bachelor"s degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1972) and a Master"s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1977).
The series of reports tracked suspected killers of children and cops who fled to the Dominican Republic, where they were protected by outdated extradition laws. The laws were changed.
In 2006. He is most proud of helping jail Byron De la Beckwith, the assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers 29 years after the heinous murder.
An active figure in the Asian American community, he has previously served both on the national and local New York Board of Directors for the AAJA. Chang"s writing has been published in the New York Times, the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News. In 2004 he was given an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from City University of New York New York Technical College.