Connie Chung Biography

Connie Chung, Journalist

Born as	Constance Yu-Hwa Chung
Occup.	Journalist
From	USA
Born	August 20, 1946 Washington, D.C., U.S.
Age	79 years

Connie was a correspondent in Washington, DC for the CBS Evening Information with Walter Cronkite in the 1970s, throughout the Watergate rumor. Later, Chung left for Los Angeles station and also run by CBS, KNXT (currently KCBS), which was the 2nd biggest in the nation (and also paying above) neighborhood market in Southern The golden state. Chung also secured the CBS Newsbriefs for stations on the west coast studios KNXT rather than Columbia throughout its mandate.

She returned to NBC when they began a new program (NBC News at Sunrise). Later, NBC produced American Almanac, which she co-hosts with Roger Mudd, after Mudd left NBC Nightly News, where he co-hosted for 2 years with Tom Brokaw.

Connie left NBC for CBS where she organized on Saturday night with Connie Chung, and also June 1, 1993, she ended up being the second woman (after Barbara Walters with ABC in 1976) to co-anchor the news of a significant nationwide network (the solo nationwide news support called the United States mosts likely to Katie Couric at CBS). While organizing the CBS Night Information, Chung additionally organized a side task on CBS, eye for eye with Connie Chung and also In person with Connie Chung. After this Chung jumped to ABC Information where she co-hosts the Monday version of 20/20 with Charles Gibson as well as began independent interviews, a field that will certainly soon become his trademark. She is wed to the speaker Maury Povich.

Our collection contains 17 quotes who is written / told by Connie.

Related authors: Katie Couric (Journalist), Walter Cronkite (Journalist), Tom Brokaw (Journalist), Roger Mudd (Journalist), Maury Povich (Celebrity), Barbara Walters (Journalist), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

Connie Chung Famous Works:

1993 Eye to Eye with Connie Chung (Non-fiction)

Source / external links:

Wikipedia

17 Famous quotes by Connie Chung

"I once bought an old car back after I sold it because I missed it so much and I had forgotten that it never ran. It was a British racing car. You know, because I just wanted it back. I could only remember what was good about it"

Connie Chung

"We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well"

Connie Chung

"I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there"

Connie Chung

"I now need to take a very aggressive approach to having a baby"

Connie Chung

"For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN"

Connie Chung

"Well, honestly, both my husband and I tend to ignore the tabloids. We see them every once in awhile or it comes to our attention that we are in a tabloid for one reason or another. But it's always false"

Connie Chung

"I mean, all the ratings wars are silly. But, I mean, someone has to be concerned about the ratings because it means, you know, it translates into revenue"

Connie Chung

"I think that they had afforded me many opportunities to do good work there, and I think I did. It was a wonderful four years. I really worked with some great people, terrific producers, terrific editors"

Connie Chung

"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

"As the youngest, I wanted to be my father's son and perpetuate the family name"

Connie Chung

"Our son is in school now. You know, he's six-and-a-half and so a big chunk of the day is taken up by school. So I'm hoping that I'll be able to certainly take him to school in the morning, maybe pick him up in the afternoon and come back to work"

Connie Chung

"I think, you know, it was something that I really wanted. I wanted so much to have a son or daughter. We adopted a son. And it was just the most wonderful thing. I think the only thing that was difficult for both Maury and myself were the sleepless nights"

Connie Chung

"Today, especially, when there are so many stations for viewers to choose from, if they want news, they always come to CNN and that's where I wanted to be"

Connie Chung

"You know, there are not only - all of the networks, and I mean every television news operation and print and radio and magazines, newspapers, all of them, are remiss in the diversity area. I mean, none of these organizations have reached a level of parity"

Connie Chung

"Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene"

Connie Chung

"I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages"

Connie Chung

"But, you know, sometimes - many - they all understand. That's the nice thing. They were all very happy for me and they understand why I decided to come to CNN. So in that respect, I know that they think it's the best thing for me to do"

Connie Chung