Connie Chung

Connie Chung was born in Washington DC on August 20, 1946. Her family emigrated the year before from China and Connie was the youngest of ten children. Her father was an intelligence officer in the Chinese Nationalist Government.

She went to high school in Maryland went got her journalism degree from the University of Maryland in 1969. She married Maury Povich a talk show host, in 1984. When they married, Connie converted to Judaism. They adopted a son in 1995.

In the early 1970s, Chung was a correspondent for the CBS Evening News during the Watergate scandal. She left to anchor evening newscasts in Los Angeles. She also anchored primetime news updates.

Chung anchored NBC News at Sunrise in 1983. She also anchored the NBC Nightly News on Saturdays and filled in for Tom Brokaw at times during the week. She also co-hosted two news magazines with Roger Mudd.

Chung left NBC for CBS in 1989 and was the host of Saturday Night with Connie Chung and was the anchor for the CBS Sunday Evening News. She also co-anchored with Dan Rather. She became the second woman in history to co-anchor a network newscast in 1993.

In 1995, Chung left CBS and went to ABC to cohost 2020 with Charles Gibson. She began doing independent interviews. She interviewed Gary Condit on Primetime Thursday in 2001 about his relationship with Chandra Levi who had been murdered. Chung was also a guest host of Good Morning America but didn’t want to make it a permanent position.