Connie Chung

Connie Chung is married to renowned American TV presented Maury Povich, with who she had co-hosted the show ‘Weekends with Maury and Connie’ on MSNBC. The couple adopted a son named Matthew in 1995.

Connie Chung was born as Constance Yu-Hwa Chung on 20 August 1946 in Washington DC in the United States. Her father’s name was William Ling Chung; he served as an intelligence officer in the Chinese Nationalist Government. Her mother’s name was Margaret. The couple had five children, Connie being the youngest one.

After she completed her graduation from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, she went to the study journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. She received her degree in 1969.

Connie Chung’s career began in the early 1970s, when she started working as a correspondent for the ‘CBS Evening News’ with Walter Cronkite. Later, she left the position after she was invited to work at the Los Angeles CBS affiliate KNXT, where she started working as the anchor of the CBS Newsbriefs.

She also made a film appearance in 1984. In the movie ‘Moscow on the Hudson,’ she appeared alongside the famous Robin Williams, playing the role of a reporter. The film was directed by Paul Mazursky. The story is about the defection of a Russian musician, played by Robin Williams, who works with the Moscow Circus. The film was reviewed positively by critics.

Meanwhile in her journalistic career, she had moved to NBC in 1983. Within a few years, she became one of the most popular TV journalists of the country.

Later in 1989, she signed a three-year deal with CBS. Then she launched a program called ‘Eye to Eye with Connie Chung.’ Though it received mixed reviews, it became quite popular. She was criticized by media critics, who said that she was focusing on entertainment over information. The series typically used to run around four to five stories in each one hour installment. However she quit in 1990 stating that she was leaving the program as she was planning to have a baby.

In 1992, she became the first person to interview Earvin Johnson Jr., popularly known as Magic Johnson, after he announced publicly that he was HIV positive.

Connie Chung gained much popularity as the host of the CBS news show ‘Eye to Eye With Connie Chung’ that aired from 1993 to 1995. Along with popularity, it also earned her some notoriety as she was criticized for not maintaining her professional decorum during an interview with the then-Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's mother, Kathleen.

Another one of her popular shows was the ‘Connie Chung Tonight,’ a television newsmagazine hosted by her. The show, which started airing in June 2002, was a moderate success. However, it was suspended with the start of the 2003 Iraq War as Chung was now required to take on other journalistic responsibilities related to the war.