About Connie Chung
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (née Chung; born August 20, 1946) 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. == Early life and education == The youngest of ten children, Chung was born in Washington, D.C., less than a year after her family emigrated from China, and was raised in Washington, D.C. Her parents were in an arranged marriage. Her father, William Ling Chung, was an intelligence officer in the Chinese Nationalist Government, and five of her siblings died during wartime. She was named after singer and actress Constance Moore. Chung attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 1969, she graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park with a degree in journalism. She was a summer intern for New York congressman Seymour Halpern. == Career == === Early career === Chung began her career as a copier at WTTG-TV until a position as newsroom secretary opened up. 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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