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Connie Chung

Biography

Connie Chung

Connie Chung, pioneer news anchor and reporter, was the first woman to co-anchor the "CBS Evening News," the flagship news broadcast on CBS. Connie was only the second woman to anchor any network evening broadcast in television history.

Connie Chung

Books by Connie Chung

by Connie Chung - Memoir, Nonfiction

Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her hometown of Washington, D.C. and soon thereafter began working at CBS News as a correspondent. Profoundly influenced by her family’s cultural traditions, yet growing up completely Americanized in the United States, Chung describes her career as an Asian woman in a white male-centered world. Chung pulls no punches as she provides a behind-the-scenes tour of her singular life. From showdowns with powerful men in and out of the newsroom to the stories behind some of her career-defining reporting and the unwavering support of her husband, Maury Povich, nothing is off-limits in this sharp, witty and definitive memoir --- good, bad or ugly.