Connie Chung is
known as the first Asian and the second woman to anchor one of America’s major
network news programs. Connie Chung was born in Washington D.C on August 20th,
1946. Connie Chung went to the University of Maryland and received a
degree in Journalism. She started working her way up the journalism ladder when
she started her journalism career at Washington’s WTTG-TV. After two years of
working at Washington’s WTTG-TV, CBS hired Chung to work as a Washington-based
correspondent. At CBS, Chung had her first big interview: an exclusive sit-down
with President Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal. In 1983, Chung
transferred to NBC. With a three- year
deal with CBS, she started a program called Face-To-Face
with Connie Chung. At this time Connie Chung was one of the most popular journalists
in T.V news. After a couple months Chung
canceled the program, as she wanted to work on having a baby with her husband. In 1993, CBS hired Chung to be co-anchor of
the nightly news broadcast with Dan Rather.
Besides Barbara Walters, Chung was only the second woman to hold one of
the main network anchor chairs. In 1995, Chung got into trouble when she
interviewed Kathleen Gingrich and forced her to admit that her son called
Hilary Clinton “ a bitch.” Chung's
interview style was said to be very direct and it landed her in trouble many
times. Eventually, concerns over her interviewing style led her to be removed
from the co-anchor chair. Chung rejected
the offer for the lower position, and moved to ABC news in December 1997. She anchored the Friday Night News magazine 20/20 for a couple years, and then soon
after in 2002, she moved to CNN. She started to anchor a new show that was at competition
with Fox News. Unfortunately, the show was a disaster which caused Connie to
take a break from television for a little while. In 2006 she returned to T.V
with her husband with a show called Weekends
With Maury and Connie. However, it was canceled after 6 months. Chung later
in life accepted a teaching fellowship at the Kennedy School Of Government at
Harvard University.
"Connie
Chung Biography." Bio.com. A&E Networks Television, n.d. Web.
14 Nov. 2013.
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