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Connie Chung, Wiki Biography
- Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich was born in Washington, D.C., USA, on 20 August 1946, the daughter of a Taiwanese diplomat.
- She is a journalist, notable for being the first woman to work for the “CBS Evening News” as a co-anchor, and also the first Asian to anchor a major newscast on the American network.
- The reporter has an approximate net worth of $15 million, and her money has been made available to numerous TV news networks, including CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and ABC News.
- The career of Chung now amounts to more than 40 years as a journalist and recently as a teacher/lecturer.
- In 1969, Connie Chung graduated with a degree in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park, and began her career at Washington’s WTTG-TV, where she worked as a reporter.
- She became a Washington-based CBS News correspondent in 1971; she secured an exclusive interview with President Richard Nixon during the Watergate crisis, which helped improve her career considerably.
- After leaving for Los Angeles, where she worked for KNXT, a CBS affiliate, her fame increased (now KCBS).
- In LA, the journalist was also a West Coast anchor for “CBS Newsbriefs.”
- Connie Chung signed a deal with CBS in 1989, where she became the host of’ Connie Chung’s Saturday Night.’
- She was the second woman to co-anchor a national news show, the “CBS Evening News,” four years later, in 1993.
- The journalist hosted a second project on CBS between 1993 and 1995, a 60-minute show called “Eye to Eye with Connie Chung.”
- Chung co-hosted the show “Weekends with Maury and Connie” with her partner, Maury Povich, from January to June 2006.
- The show broadcast by MSNBC ended with a controversial last edition dubbed by Chung “a giant self-parody.“
- Connie Chung is now teaching at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
- She is also the author of the article “The Business of Getting “The Get”: Prime Time Nailing an Exclusive Interview.”
- She was a Miss Universe competition judge in 2011.
- In 1984, Connie Chung married journalist and television host Maury Povich in her private life.
- The pair have an adopted son and two daughters from a previous marriage to Povich.
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Connie Chung, Quick Info
Full Name | Connie Chung |
Net Worth | $15 Million |
Date Of Birth | August 20, 1946 |
Place Of Birth | Washington, D.C. USA, |
Profession | American journalist, correspondent for CBS News, an anchor, |
Education | University of Maryland, College Park |
Nationality | American |
Spouse | Maury Povich (m. 1984-) |
Children | Matthew Jay Povich |
Parents | William Ling Chung, Margaret Ma |
Siblings | Josephine Chen |
Nicknames | Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich, |
IMDB | www.imdb.com/name/nm0161202 |
Awards | Special Classification for Outstanding News and Documentary Program Achievement – Programs |
TV Shows | Weekends with Maury and Connie (2006) |
Connie Chung, Quotes
- I was just going at this career – boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God – I forgot to get married!
Connie Chung, Important Facts
- She was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
- She was nominated for a 2013 New Jersey Hall of Fame for General Services.
- She received a teaching fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
- She was the first journalist to interview basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. She was also the first to interview congressman Gary Condit after his intern Chandra Levy disappeared.
- The youngest of 10, 5 of whom died in China. She has 4 older living sisters one is Josephine Chen.
- Met her future husband, Maury Povich, in 1968 at the local TV station in Washington, DC (WTTG), where she was a secretary and he was an anchorman.
- Attended the University of Maryland, where she first majored in Biology and then switched to Journalism.
- The only person in history (male or female) to have served as a substitute anchor for all three network nightly newscasts (NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (1970), CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite (1962) and ABC World News Tonight with David Muir (1953)); as well as all three network morning newscasts (Today (1952), CBS This Morning (1987) and Good Morning America (1975)).
- Daughter-in-law of Shirley Povich.
- Attended Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring Maryland
- Newscaster
- Son, Matthew Jay Povich, adopted in 1995
Connie Chung, Filmography
Title | Year | Status | Character | Role |
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Murphy Brown | 1989 | TV Series | Connie Chung | Actress |
Evening Magazine | 1977 | TV Series series producer – 1 episode | Producer | |
The Insider | 2016 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
Entertainment Tonight | 2014 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
The View | 2005-2014 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
Watch What Happens: Live | 2014 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
30 for 30 | 2014 | TV Series documentary | Herself – CBS News Anchor | Self |
Nancy & Tonya | 2014 | TV Movie documentary | Herself | Self |
Politics Nation with Al Sharpton | 2013 | TV Series | Herself – Guest Host | Self |
Clockwork Orange County | 2012 | Video documentary | Herself | Self |
Miss Universe 2011 | 2011 | TV Special | Herself – Judge | Self |
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire | 2009 | TV Series | Herself – Expert | Self |
Urban Struggle: The Battle of the Cuckoo’s Nest | 2008 | Video documentary voice | Self | |
Paula’s Party | 2008 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | 2006 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
The Colbert Report | 2006 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
Today | 2006 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
Connie Chung Tonight | 2002 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
Late Show with David Letterman | 1993-2002 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
Good Morning America | 2002 | TV Series | Herself – Substitute Co-Host | Self |
America.01 | 2001 | TV Series | Herself / Correspondent | Self |
Orlan, carnal art | 2001 | Documentary | Herself | Self |
ABC 2000: The Millennium | 1999 | TV Movie documentary | Self | |
20/20 | 1999 | TV Series documentary | Herself – Contributing Anchor | Self |
The Rosie O’Donnell Show | 1999 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
Knife to the Heart | 1997 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Narrator | Self |
Eye to Eye with Connie Chung | 1993 | TV Series | Herself (Host) (1993-1995) | Self |
Late Night with David Letterman | 1983-1992 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
The Howard Stern Show | 1990-1992 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
Face to Face with Connie Chung | 1990 | TV Series | Herself (Anchor) (1990) | Self |
Donahue | 1985-1990 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
The Arsenio Hall Show | 1990 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
Saturday Night with Connie Chung | 1989 | TV Series | Herself (Anchor) (1989-1990) | Self |
CBS This Morning | 1987 | TV Series | Herself – Substitute Co-Host (1990-1993) | Self |
Hour Magazine | 1987 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
1986 | 1986 | TV Series documentary | Herself – Co-Host | Self |
NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration | 1986 | TV Special documentary | Herself | Self |
American Almanac | 1985 | TV Movie | Herself | Self |
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1985 | TV Series | Herself | Self |
NBC News at Sunrise | 1983 | TV Series | Herself – Anchor (1983-1986) | Self |
CBS Evening News with Dan Rather | 1981 | TV Series | Herself – Substitute Anchor (1989-1995) / Co-anchor (1993-1995) | Self |
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite | 1975 | TV Series | Herself – Correspondent | Self |
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt | 1970 | TV Series | Herself – Substitute Anchor (1983-1989) | Self |
ABC World News Tonight with David Muir | 1953 | TV Series | Herself – Substitute anchor (1998-2002) | Self |
The Eighties | 2016 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself – CBS News / Herself – NBC News | Archive Footage |
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words | 2016 | Documentary | Herself | Archive Footage |
Traficant: The Congressman of Crimetown | 2015 | Documentary | Herself | Archive Footage |
Black Mass | 2015 | Herself (uncredited) | Archive Footage | |
Above the Fray: The Lessons of Dukakis ’88 | 2014 | Documentary short | Herself | Archive Footage |
Mad As Hell | 2014 | Documentary | Herself | Archive Footage |
Killer Legends | 2014 | Documentary | Herself – Newscaster | Archive Footage |
The ’80s: The Decade That Made Us | 2013 | TV Mini-Series documentary | Herself | Archive Footage |
Big Miracle | 2012 | Herself (uncredited) | Archive Footage | |
Ethos | 2011/I | Documentary | Herself – CBS News Reporter | Archive Footage |
30 for 30 | 2010 | TV Series documentary | Herself | Archive Footage |
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story | 2008 | Documentary | Herself – News Anchor | Archive Footage |
The O’Reilly Factor | 2008 | TV Series | Herself | Archive Footage |
911 Amateur | 2007 | Video documentary short | Herself – ABC Reporter | Archive Footage |
Maxed Out | 2006 | Documentary | Herself | Archive Footage |
Mademoiselle and the Doctor | 2004 | Documentary | Herself | Archive Footage |
Tupac: Resurrection | 2003 | Documentary | Herself | Archive Footage |
Brother’s Keeper | 1992 | Documentary | Herself (uncredited) | Archive Footage |
Slaying the Dragon | 1988 | TV Movie documentary | Herself (uncredited) | Archive Footage |
Connie Chung, Awards
Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie | Category |
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2000 | Emmy | News & Documentary Emmy Awards | Outstanding News and Documentary Program Achievement – Programs & Segments | ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999) | Won |
2000 | Emmy | News & Documentary Emmy Awards | Outstanding News and Documentary Program Achievement – Programs & Segments | ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999) | Nominated |