NBC News Yanks Yang All The Way To Chicago

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: NBC News moves correspondent John Yang to Chicago : John Yang is moving from NBC News' Washington bureau to NBC Tower, where he will join Kevin Tibbles as a Chicago-based correspondent, the network confirmed Wednesday. : "NBC is moving me from the city of big egos to the city of broad shoulders," Yang wrote in an e-mail to colleagues obtained by TV Newser, whose sister site, Fishbowl DC, broke the story. : Yang, who joined NBC as a White House correspondent in 2007, will shuttle between Washington and Chicago in August but hopes to be settled in here by the beginning of September. : Before NBC, Yang spent eight years as a correspondent for ABC News. A two-year tour of duty as a Jerusalem-based Middle East correspondent was sandwiched between stints working out of the Washington bureau. : He joined ABC in 1999 after nearly 10 years as a reporter and editor at The Washington Post. He previously worked for the Boston Globe, Time magazine and the Wall Street Journal. : Yang's roots are in the Midwest. He was born in Chillicothe, Ohio.

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