Ailsa Chang

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Ailsa Chang
Born (1976-01-18) January 18, 1976 (age 48)
Education Stanford University (BA, JD)
University of Oxford (LLM)
Columbia University (MA)
OccupationJournalist
Employer NPR

Ailsa Chang (born January 18, 1976) [1] [2] is an American journalist. She’s a host of the NPR newsmagazine All Things Considered . She is a former host of Planet Money and previously covered United States Congress for NPR. Prior to joining NPR in 2012, Chang was an investigative journalist at NPR member station WNYC in New York City. Since starting as a radio reporter in 2009, she has received numerous national awards for investigative reporting.

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Early life and education

Chang grew up in Los Altos, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. [3] Her parents are from Taiwan. [4]

Chang is a graduate of Mountain View High School. [3] She earned a bachelor of arts degree in public policy from Stanford University in 1998 [5] and a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School in 2001. [6] She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oxford, earning a master's degree in media law. [7] In 2008, she completed a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University. [6]

Career

Chang served as law clerk to John T. Noonan, Jr., a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. [6]

After five years practicing law, Chang realized it wasn’t a good fit and quit her job. She was 30 years old. Looking for a way to fill her time while she figured out what came next, she volunteered as an unpaid intern at NPR member station KQED in San Francisco, where she was living at the time. [8] With a newfound a passion for journalism, she returned to school for a master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University. [8]

After journalism school, Chang joined NPR in 2008 as a Kroc Fellow in Washington D.C., [6] where she wrote an investigative report into the public defender system of Detroit. [9] The piece, which aired on NPR in 2009, was awarded the 2010 Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize. [10]

She returned to KQED as a reporter, before joining WNYC in 2009, where she covered criminal justice, terrorism and the courts. [5] At WNYC, Chang wrote an investigative report into "stop-and-frisk" search policies of New York City Police Department. [11] The series, which aired on NPR in 2011, earned her a silver baton in the 2012 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Awards. [5] [12]

Chang returned to NPR in 2012. She was a correspondent for Planet Money and also reported on U.S. Congress activities, specifically immigration, healthcare and gun control. [6] In 2018, she assumed co-host chair on the afternoon radio program All Things Considered . [6] Chang has also appeared as a guest on PBS NewsHour and other television programs for her legal reporting.

Awards

Personal life

Chang lives in Los Angeles, California, with her dog Mickey, a Shih Tzu, who she describes as “my absolute best friend in the whole wide world.” [13]

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