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Canadian journalist
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(Ottawa, Canada)
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Biography
Introduction
Andrew Chang is a Canadian television journalist and one of three co-anchors of CBC Television's nightly flagship newscast The National.
Early life
Chang was born in Ottawa and studied journalism at Carleton University. 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.
Broadcasting career
Chang joined the CBC in 2004 at CBC Montreal as a researcher. 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.