About Connie Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich is an American journalist who has been a news anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S. representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. In 1993, she became the second woman to co-anchor a network newscast, as part of CBS Evening News. During this time, Chung also served as the presenter for the Maryland Instructional Television series Terra: Our World, which won a Peabody Award. NBC also created two newsmagazines, American Almanac and 1986, which she co-hosted with Roger Mudd. In 1971, Chung became a Washington, D.C.–based correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite in the early 1970s during the Watergate political scandal.
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