Joy Chang

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Video Journalist, BBC World Service

Taipei, Taipei City TW

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Joy Chang is a video journalist, producer and documentary filmmaker.

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Joy Chang is an award-winning video journalist, producer and documentary filmmaker. Previously based in New York and Hong Kong, she has covered stories on China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the US. Her reporting in the US focused on the Asian American communities, Hong Kong's overseas democracy advocacy and US-China relations. In Hong Kong, she spent much of her time covering the aftermath of the 2019 protests, with a focus on those who were arrested because of the demonstrations and their life after prison release. Joy is interested in Cross-Strait relations and the geopolitical developments in the Asia-Pacific region. Her mini-documentary about Kinmen, Taiwan's frontline islands with China, won her one Gold and two Bronze medals at the 2023 Telly Awards; she also won Best Documentary Video (Chinese) in the 2024 Human Rights Press Awards. Her work appeared in the BBC, South China Morning Post, The Wall Street Journal, Deutsche Welle, CBC News, Wainao (Radio Free Asia), VOA, Channel News Asia, Ketagalan Media, The New York Times, Taipei Times, and more. She is currently based in Taiwan.

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