Professional Biography

Benny Chang is a Mandarin-Chinese TV news writer and radio broadcasting announcer in the San Francisco Bay Area. His professional life started from instructional technology related career in 1991, when he served for Taiwan Army as a second lieutenant in Kinmen Island. As a Training Officer, Chang developed many training related projects; he also created training manuals by using computer-it was a pioneering work at that time.

After his discharge from Taiwan Army in 1993, Chang joined the Department of Radio, TV and Film at Shihshin University, Taipei, Taiwan as a teaching assistant. Chang taught the basic broadcasting production course, and often wrote syllabus, event proposals and professional articles for the RTF Department. He also planned and hosted his first radio show forum on vocal music at Shihshin Radio Station. In addition, he worked at Good News Radio Station as a part-time host and producer.

Chang left Shihshin University after two and half years, six months before the expiration of his contract. He joined Wealth Group, the most famous financial and economic publishing group in Taiwan, as a host and producer of a live radio program relating to finance, economy and stock markets. He was an executive producer of a TV stock program that broadcasted on CTS, one of the four biggest TV networks in Taiwan. During that period, Chang learned professional and valuable knowledge about news broadcasting and investment. Since he launched a program about investment knowledge, Chang had tried to arrange effective but useful topics for educating his audiences.

Chang migrated to the U.S. in 1998 and joined KPST 66 of San Francisco as a Mandarin-Chinese TV news reporter. He became the news editor after six months, and was in charge of news line-up and script pre-approval department. In 2000, he left KPST and switched to the Web media, e21time as a reporter and columnist. Chang, as a witness of the Internet boom, had reported many stories about information technology and e-commerce, while he was acquiring Internet related knowledge. Chang went back to KPST in 2001 as a news anchorman and the chief news editor, right after the e21times was shut down, and worked for the station until the company sold. Chang works for another Mandarin-Chinese TV station of the Bay Area, KTSF 26 as a news writer, and a Mandarin-Chinese Bible study radio program announcer (reader) of Family Radio, an international Christian radio network based on Oakland.

Chang received his BA degree in educational media and library sciences at Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan in 1992. With his instructional technology and media as background, he has decided to go back to graduate school for acquiring current knowledge in instructional technology, and completed his MA degree in instructional technology at San José State University, San José, California in May, 2003.