Andrew Chang

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Andrew Chang
Born (1982-12-15) 15 December 1982 (age 40)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater Carleton University
Career
Show The National
Network CBC Television
CountryCanada
Previous show(s)CBC News Vancouver at 6
CBC Montreal News at 6

Andrew Chang (born 15 December 1982) is a Canadian television journalist, best known as a co-anchor of CBC Television's nightly flagship newscast The National . [1]

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Early life

Chang was born on 15 December 1982 [2] [3] in Ottawa and graduated from Carleton University with a degree in journalism. [3] [4] He grew up speaking English in a family where his father spoke Cantonese and his mother spoke Mandarin. After moving to Quebec, he became fluent in French. [5]

Broadcasting career

Chang joined the CBC in 2004 at CBC Montreal as a researcher. He was a part of CBC's broadcast team for the 2014 Winter Olympics. [6] [7] From 2014 to 2017, he was anchor of CBC Vancouver's News at 6. For this work, he won the Best News Anchor, Local award at the Canadian Screen Awards in 2016 and 2018. On 1 August 2017, he was named co-host of The National . [1]

In June 2022, the CBC announced that Chang would be stepping away from The National, and moving to host a new daily program for the CBC's forthcoming streaming news service. [8] His program, About That, launched on CBC News Explore on November 30, 2022. [9]

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