Connie Chung
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Chung in San Diego in 2008
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| Born |
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung August 20, 1946 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Connie Povich |
| Occupation | News presenter, reporter, journalist |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Spouse(s) | Maury Povich (m. 1984) |
| Children | 1 |
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| Chinese | 宗毓華 | ||||||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Zōng Yùhuá |
| Wade–Giles | Tsung Yühua |
| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Jung Yukwa |
| Jyutping | Zung Jukwaa |
Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (Chinese: 宗毓華; pinyin: Zōng Yùhuá; Cantonese Yale: Jung Yukwa; born August 20, 1946), known as Connie Chung, is an American journalist. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, 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 Earvin "Magic" Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. In 1993, she became only the second female to co-anchor a network newscast as part of CBS Evening News. She was removed in 1995 as CBS Evening News co-anchor after a controversial interview with a fireman, during rescue efforts at the Oklahoma City bombing, which seemed inappropriately combative and her interview tactics to get Newt Gingrich's mother to admit her unguarded thoughts about Hillary Clinton.
She is married to talk show host Maury Povich and they have one adopted son, Matthew Jay Povich.
The youngest of five children, Chung was born and raised in Washington, D.C. less than a year after her family immigrated. Her father, William Ling Chung, was an intelligence officer in the Chinese Nationalist Government.
She graduated from Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland and went on to receive a degree in journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park in 1969. She has been married to talk show host Maury Povich since 1984. Chung converted to Judaism upon marrying Povich. Chung has since become devoted to the faith, and attends synagogue with her family. Chung has noted publicly that she and Povich maintain a kosher lifestyle year round. Chung announced that she was reducing her workload in 1991 in the hopes of getting pregnant. Together, they have one son, Matthew, whom they adopted on June 20, 1995.
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