Breaking: Changes are afoot at ABC’s “Good Morning America,” as Juju Chang will soon leave the program to join “Nightline” as a correspondent and fill-in anchor, while ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor Josh Elliott joins the morning show as its newsreader.

The changes are the first major moves since James Goldston took over as senior EP of “GMA” in February.

“In her new position, Juju will play a leading part in a number of the 13 primetime hours that Nightline will produce this summer,” wrote ABC News president Ben Sherwood in an email to staff. “She will also make major contributions to 20/20, World News and GMA – as she has throughout her 23 year career at ABC News.”

The news was first reported by the NY Post.

Elliott will join fellow ESPN alum Robin Roberts on the morning show, along with ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, who contributes regular pieces to the program. Both ESPN and ABC are owned by the Walt Disney Company.

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MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts will host the NLGJA’s 16th annual Headlines and Headliners event in New York tonight. What makes this interesting is that Roberts is the first openly gay TV journalist to host the event which benefits the organization for gay and lesbian journalists.

“I am honored to be this year’s host,” Roberts tells TVNewser. “It is going to be a great night. I really believe in NLGJA and its work and I’m proud to be involved.”

Roberts, who joined MSNBC fulltime late last year, was named anchor of the 11am hour last month.

NLGJA’s annual New York benefit gathers big name TV, radio, print and online journalists –tonight that includes FNC’s Jamie Colby, Rick Reichmuth, Kimberly Guilfoyle and Rick Folbaum; from CBS Erica Hill, Chris Wragge, Marysol Castro and Troy Roberts; from CNN and HLN, Don Lemon and Jane Velez-Mitchell; from ABC News Sam Champion, and JuJu Chang; and Roberts’ MSNBC/NBC colleagues Chris Jansing, Natalie Morales, Contessa Brewer and Carl Quintanilla.

In the past, the New York benefit has been hosted by ABC’s Diane Sawyer, NBC’s Meredith Vieira, and CNN’s Soledad O’Brien. Tickets are still available. Go here for more info.

Musician Darius Rucker (remember Hootie & the Blowfish?) was on “GMA” earlier this week with Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Juju Chang, and Sam Champion to promote a special edition of “Your 3 Words” — a segment which is seen every Saturday on “Good Morning America” weekend where it debuted in the summer of 2007.

In this behind-the-scenes video, Rucker and the anchors reveal their three words.

ABC’s overnight show “World News Now” turns 19 this week, and is moving into a new studio.

There have been many great anchors on the broadcast throughout the years — including Aaron Brown, Lisa Mcree, Ryan Owens, Anderson Cooper, and Juju Chang.

An ABC spokesperson tells TVNewser that the show debuted a new set, and “World News Now”’s sister program, “America This Morning,” will debut its upgraded new look soon.

A look back at the show over its 19 years is after the jump…
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“Good Morning America” this week focuses on good old American jobs, according to The Daily News. GMA hosts and reporters will profile a different American job each day this week on ABC in their new segment, “Work with Me, GMA!”

This morning, Juju Chang followed two sisters in Milwaukee: a civil servant and a firefighter. Tomorrow, George Stephanopoulos will report on a steelworker in Ohio. On Wednesday, Robin Roberts will follow a fish wholesaler in Charleston, S.C. Sam Champion will work at a BBQ joint in Houston, Texas on Thursday. And then on Friday, Dan Harris will report on a winemaker in California. And Saturday, Ron Claiborne will work with a veterinarian in Virginia.

Video of the first installment with Bianna Golodryga along with Juju Chang’s installment of the segment: “Work with Me GMA!” is after the jump…
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Former NBC News president and current president of public media powerhouse WNET.org Neal Shapiro is the subject of the “Sunday Routine” in this weekend’s New York Times. Shapiro is married to ABC News “Good Morning America” news anchor Juju Chang.

As is usually the case with the profiles, the focus is on the Sunday leisure activites, but there are a few interesting tidbits for TV news addicts:

DID JUJU CONVERT? She converted when we got married. Now she’s twice as Jewish as I am.

PREPPING FOR THE WEEK All of us have a little Sunday night anxiety, the Sunday night blues where you’re already getting ready for Monday. My wife has to get up at 4 a.m., so before she goes to bed, we discuss the week, juggling the nanny, breakfast meetings, making sure we have full coverage for the kids, and figuring out when we’re going to see each other.

Tomorrow “Good Morning America” news anchor Juju Chang — along with about 40 of her ABC News colleagues — will participate in the Housatonic Valley Sprint Triathlon in Connecticut.

The quarter mile swim, 12.5 mile bike ride and 3.1 mile run will take place in Danbury and all the money raised by the ABC News team will go to Haiti earthquake victims. They’ve raised about $25,000 so far.

Want to see how Chang, a mother of three boys, prepared for the run/bike/swim?

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Tomorrow on “Good Morning America”, the first of several stories from GMA news anchor Juju Chang as she reports from her native South Korea.

Chang, who was born in Seoul, sat down with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, explored the country’s high tech revolution and reports on the economic progress being made 60 years after the Korean War and talks with American veterans of the war.

44-year-old Chang traveled with her mother, two sisters and a brother on this trip. In a piece that airs Tuesday, Chang visits a school she would have attended had the family stayed in South Korea.

Chang’s reports begin tomorrow, the 60th anniversary of the start of the Korean War.

First on TVNewser: “World News Now,” ABC’s middle-of-the-night news program, is about to see another change at the anchor desk. TVNewser has learned that Jeremy Hubbard, who joined the broadcast in 2008, is departing “World News Now” for a promotion to digital correspondent for ABC News. (Welcome back to daylight, Jeremy)

ABC News is hiring Rob Nelson, morning news anchor at CBS-affiliate WWL-TV in New Orleans, to co-anchor the program with Vinita Nair. No word yet on his official start date.

“World News Now” has been something of a revolving door for young, promising talent. Since the show’s launch in 1992, the newscast’s seen Anderson Cooper, Juju Chang, Alison Stewart, Aaron Brown, Kevin Newman, David Muir, and others pass through the anchor chair.

Breaking: ABC News has named Bianna Golodryga as the new co-anchor of the weekend edition of “Good Morning America.” Golodryga joins Bill Weir as well as Ron Claiborne (news anchor) and Marysol Castro (weather anchor). ABC News President David Westin sent an email to staff informing them of the news.

Her first day is tomorrow. She will continue to cover business and finance as a correspondent for the network.

There had been speculation with the departure of Kate Snow — who starts at “Dateline NBC” next week — that Golodryga, an internal candidate, would be the likely choice for the job. She had been a regular part of the fill-in rotation since Snow’s departure.

Golodryga had also reportedly been in consideration for the weekday newsreader position that eventually went to Juju Chang after Chris Cuomo moved to “20/20.”

She had recently made non-industry headlines for her engagement to Peter Orszag, director of the OMB.

She joined ABC News in 2007 after working at CNBC from 2001.