Constance Yu-Hwa Chung was born on August 20,1946 and is an American journalist who has been a news anchor and reporter for the US television news networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC.
17 Facts About Connie Chung
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Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bulow and US Representative Gary Condit, whom Connie Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive.
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Connie Chung was named after singer and actress Constance Moore.
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Connie Chung received a degree in journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1969.
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Connie Chung was a Washington-based correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite in the early 1970s, during the Watergate political scandal.
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Later, Connie Chung left to anchor evening newscasts for KNXT, the network's owned and operated station in Los Angeles with Joe Benti.
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In 1983, Connie Chung returned to network news as anchor of NBC's new early program, NBC News at Sunrise, which was scheduled as the lead-in to the Today program.
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Connie Chung was anchor of the Saturday edition of NBC Nightly News and filled in for Tom Brokaw on weeknights.
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In 1989, Chung left NBC for CBS, where she hosted Saturday Night with Connie Chung and anchored the CBS Sunday Evening News.
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Connie Chung had become the object of some of the most ferocious criticism, justified or not, ever directed at any network anchor as a result of her now infamous interview with Speaker Newt Gingrich's mother, Kathleen.
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Consequently, after public outcry, and Rather's complaints, Connie Chung left the network after being removed as co-anchor of CBS Evening News.
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Connie Chung was a guest host of the morning program Good Morning America.
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Once CNN resumed regular programming, Connie Chung requested that CNN resume broadcasting her show as soon as possible.
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In July 2002, Connie Chung interviewed tennis player Martina Navratilova, who at that time had been a naturalized US citizen for more than 20 years, about her recent criticisms of the US political system.
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Connie Chung's interviews were largely gentle, but often they were punctuated by a rapid-fire barrage of sharp questions.
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Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bulow and US Representative Gary Condit, whom Connie Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance.
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Connie Chung has been married to talk show host Maury Povich since 1984 and they have one adopted son, Matthew Jay Povich, who they adopted on June 20,1995.