Ti-Hua Chang (1950- ) is an award-winning Chinese American broadcast journalist based in New York.
He is currently a general assignment and investigative reporter for WWOR-TV. Before joining WCBS in 2005, Chang worked as a general assignment/Investigative TV reporter at WNBC-TV. Prior to that, he was the host of his own talk show, New York Hotline, on WNYC-TV. Chang has also worked as an investigative producer at ABC News and as a reporter at WLOX in Biloxi, Mississippi, KYW-TV in Philadelphia, KUSA in Denver and WJBK in Detroit.
Chang is a native New Yorker who grew up on the Upper West Side. He has a Bachelors degree from the University of Pennsylvania (1972) and a Masters degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1977).
In 1996, Chang won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for his news documentary “Passport to Kill.” The series of reports tracked suspected killers of children and cops who fled to the Dominican Republic, where they were protected by outdated extradition laws. The laws were changed. In 2006 he won an Edward R. Murrow award for a story on police using high-tech equipment to spy on an amorous couple. He considers his best story the finding of four witnesses, which helped convict the killer of Civil Rights leader Medgar Evers.
Chang is also the recipient of four Emmys, Press Association awards in Philadelphia, Denver and Detroit, AP and UPI awards, and an Asian American Journalists Association award. An active figure in the Asian American community, he has previously served both on the national and local New York Board of Directors for the AAJA.
Chang’s writing has been published in the New York Times and the Detroit News.
