Jennifer Chang

Jennifer Katherine Chang, born Becky Chang, is a freelance broadcast journalist known for her work with CBS Radio News. She has covered North and South Korea as a reporter for the U.S. network since 2006, reporting on such major stories as North Korea's first and second nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009, the execution and release of Christian South Korean hostages by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2007, North Korea's sentencing and release of detained U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee in 2009, and the ROKS Cheonan sinking in 2010.
Life and career
She is also an English-language news reporter who shoots all the video, including standups, of her own professional quality TV packages for Areum Broadcasting Network, a Seoul metropolitan area TV station; the writer and editor for that station's English newscast; and a researcher, translator and fixer for TV news programs of American television and radio network CBS. Prior to joining CBS Radio News, she worked as an English-language news reporter for Traffic Broadcasting System (TBS), a Seoul metropolitan area radio station, and a news writer and reporter for South Korea's English-speaking TV network, Arirang TV. She began her broadcasting career interning as a research associate and working as a production assistant for NBC in connection with the U.S. TV network's coverage of the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
Birth and education
A native of Boston, Massachusetts, she attended part of elementary school and all of high school and college in the U.S., as well as receiving her elementary and junior high school diplomas from South Korean schools, including one of Korea's top middle schools, Yewon School, and is fluent in English and Korean. A graduate of Wellesley College, she completed two years at MIT as an undergraduate student before embarking on a career in broadcasting. She also attended a graduate Broadcast Journalism program at Emerson College from 1998-1999.

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