PERSON: Connie Chung

Journalist

Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (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.

The youngest of 10 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 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.

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