[citation needed] Yang moved on to Time, where he worked as a correspondent from 1981 to 1986, and he also served as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal[2] from 1986 to 1990.

[4] In November 1999, Yang left The Post when he was offered a job as a Washington, D.C.–based correspondent at ABC News.

[4][2] He covered every major development of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,[2] including suicide bombings and Israeli military operations in Palestinian territories.

[2] In April 2005, Yang covered the death of Pope John Paul II, working with the ABC News team that also won an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for its coverage of the event.

[9] In 2013, while working for NBC News' Chicago bureau, he bought a three-bedroom condominium in the Lake View neighborhood.