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Connie Chung Biography (1946-)

Full name, Constance Yu-Hwa Chung; born August 20, 1946, in Washington, DC; daughter of William Ling (a financial manager and former diplomat) and Margaret (maiden name, Ma) Chung; married Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich (a talk show host, news broadcaster, and producer), December 2, 1984; adopted children:Matthew Jay. Addresses: Manager: Geller Media Management, 250 West 57th St., Suite 213, New York, NY 10019.

Nationality

American

Gender

Female

Occupation

Broadcast journalist, writer

Birth Details

August 20, 1946

Washington, DC, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Appearances
• Series
• Anchor and reporter, NBC Nightly News, NBC, 1983-1989
• Anchor and reporter, Today Show, NBC, 1983-1989
• Anchor and reporter, News Digest, NBC, 1983-1989
• Anchor and reporter, NBC News at Sunrise, NBC, 1983-1989
• Chief correspondent, American Almanac, NBC, 1985
• Cohost, 1986 (news magazine), NBC, 1986
• Reporter, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS, 1989-1993
• Host, Saturday Night with Connie Chung (also known as West 57thStreet), CBS, 1989-1990
• Host, Face to Face with Connie Chung, CBS, 1990
• Anchor, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, CBS, 1993-1995
• Coanchor, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS, 1993-1995
• Correspondent, PrimeTime Live, ABC, 1997-2002
• Correspondent and coanchor, 20/20 (also known as ABC News 20/20), ABC, 1997-2002
• Also occasional anchor for ABC news programs, including ABC World NewsTonight (also known as ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings).
• Specials
• Terra Our World, Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting, 1980
• Herself, NBC's 60th Anniversary Celebration, NBC, 1986
• Correspondent, The Baby Business, NBC, 1987
• Correspondent, Scared Sexless, NBC, 1987
• David Letterman's Old Fashioned Christmas, NBC, 1987
• Men, Women, Sex and AIDS, NBC, 1987
• Correspondent, NBC News Report on America: Life in the Fat Lane, NBC, 1987
• Correspondent and anchor, Summer Showcase, NBC, 1988
• Correspondent, Campaign Countdown: The California Battleground, NBC, 1988
• Correspondent, Campaign Countdown: The Great Lakes Battleground, NBC, 1988
• Campaign Countdown: Is This Any Way to Elect a President?, NBC, 1988
• Anchor, Guns, Guns, Guns, NBC, 1988
• Correspondent, Everybody's Doing It, NBC, 1988
• Host, "Sarafina!" Words of Freedom ... Songs of Hope, 1988
• Exit poll reporter, Decision '88, NBC, 1988
• Reporter, NBC News Reports on America: Stressed to Kill, NBC, 1988
• Herself (in archive footage), Slaying the Dragon, 1988
• Anchor and reporter, Presidential Inauguration, NBC, 1989
• Coanchor, America on the Line, CBS, 1992
• Herself, Donahue: The 25th Anniversary, NBC, 1992
• Herself, The 12 Most Fascinating People of 1993, ABC, 1993
• Anchor, Space: Last Frontier or Lost Frontier?, CBS, 1994
• New York anchor, State of the Union: The President, Congress, and You, CBS, 1995
• Host and narrator, Knife to the Heart, PBS, 1997
• Episodic
• Herself, "TV or Not TV," Murphy Brown, CBS, 1989
• Film Appearances
• Network news interviewer, Brother's Keeper, 1992
• WRITINGS
• Television Specials
• NBC News Report on America: Life in the Fat Lane, NBC, 1987
• Everybody's Doing It, NBC, 1988
• Guns, Guns, Guns, NBC, 1988
• Summer Showcase, NBC, 1988

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

• Making Waves: The 50 Greatest Women in Radio and Television, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2001
• Malone, Mary, Connie Chung: Broadcast Journalist, Enslow Publishers, 1992

Periodicals

• New York Times Biographical Service, December 23, 1992, pp. 1648,
• People Weekly, June 5, 1995, pp. 50-52; July 3, 1995, pp. 40-41
• Time, May 31, 1993
• Variety, August 27, 2001, p. 20

Electronic

• American Decades (CD-ROM), Gale, 1998