Emily Chang is a CNN correspondent based in Beijing. Since joining the Beijing bureau in 2008, Chang has reported on a wide range of stories looking at social, political and economic aspects of China. Notably she reported daily throughout the 2008 Beijing Olympics bringing the atmosphere live as the Games began.
Her reports on the aftermath of the devastating Sichuan earthquake looked at the state of affairs in China one month after. She travelled to Fengkai in China to report on the devastating floods that forced millions to flee their homes, covered reactions from Beijing on the U.S. elections, spoke to families of children sickened by tainted milk and continues to bring insights into how China is coping in the global financial crisis. Prior to her move to China, Chang reported for CNN in London. Prominent interviews she has conducted include Former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, just before her assassination, and the network’s first interview with the parents of missing Madeleine McCann.
Before joining CNN in August 2007, Chang spent three years at KNSD, the NBC affiliate in San Diego, California where she also filed reports for MSNBC and NBC’s Newschannel. She covered a range of stories including drug and human trafficking at the US-Mexico border and California wildfires. Her body of work has been recognized by the US Congress and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and she has also won five Emmy Awards for news writing, health/science and consumer business reporting.
Chang also reported in Honolulu, Hawaii and Birmingham, Alabama. She launched her career as a News Associate in the prestigious NBC training program based in New York City where she worked for Dateline and the NBC Nightly News. She also helped produce coverage of the invasion of Iraq including the NBC special “The Road to Baghdad.”
Born and raised in Kailua, Hawaii, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University
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