Dean Chang

Metro Editor - Go-to Man at the News Desk

Dean Chang, Metro Editor, joined The New York Daily News in 1990 at the age of 24. After seven years as a reporter, Chang was sweet-talked into becoming an editor by Pete Hamill, then the editor of The New York Daily News. Three months later, Pete was gone, and Chang was stuck on the desk. In his nine years on the City Desk, Chang has worked his way up from Deputy Metro Editor for criminal justice, supervising police and court coverage, to City Editor and now Metro Editor, a position he's held for three years - a lifetime, compared to the last six Metro Editors. His first job after graduating from the University at Albany, where he met his wife at the school paper, was covering horseracing for The Saratogian in Saratoga Springs, New York. Chang is convinced that had he stayed in that field, he would have become one of horseracing's most distinguished writers - but also one of the poorest, since they had tellers in the press box. Chang is married with three children.