birth_place status ethnicity credits gender article_title name occupation
seattle , washington married american of chinese descent '' times '' the new york times '' , '' seattle female laura chang
 laura chang editor , new york times booming blog
laura chang

laura chang -lrb- born in seattle , washington -rrb- is an american journalist who edits the booming blog of `` the new york times , '' a role she took on after spearheading the paper 's coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11 .
previously , she had been science editor since 2004 ; before that she was assistant science editor beginning in 1998 , then deputy science editor .
chang joined the `` times '' in 1990 .
she began as a copy editor on the national desk , then became assignment editor .
she also served as a special projects editor , where she handled projects on welfare reform , the erosion of privacy and the spread of e. coli contamination .
she was also the `` times '' editor who stayed up all night excerpting the unabomber manifesto .
