Constance Yu-Hwa 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. Chung converted to Judaism at the time of her marriage to talk show host Maury Povich. She and Povich have one son, Matthew, whom they adopted on June 20, 1995.
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Constance Yu-Hwa 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. 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, and her interview tactics to get Newt Gingrich’s mother to admit her unguarded thoughts about Hillary Clinton. Chung converted to Judaism at the time of her marriage to talk show host Maury Povich. She and Povich have one son, Matthew, whom they adopted on June 20, 1995. Chung announced that she was reducing her workload in 1991 in the hopes of getting pregnant. In early 2018, Chung was asked if she was sexually harassed in her career. She replied: ‘Oh, yeah! Oh, sure. Yeah. Every day. I mean, Especially when I started out.\’ Chung has since become devoted to the faith, and she attends synagogue with her family. Her father, William Ling Chung, was an intelligence officer in the Chinese Nationalist Government and five of her siblings died during wartime.
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. Chung was a Washington-based correspondent for theCBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite in the early 1970s, during the Watergate political scandal. Later, Chung left to anchor evening newscasts for KNXT, the network’s owned and operated station in Los Angeles. In 1989, Chungleft NBC for CBS, where she hosted Saturday Night with Connie Chung and anchored the CBS Sunday Evening News. On June 1, 1993, she became the second woman to co- Anchor a major network’s national weekday news broadcast. She eventually jumped to ABC News where she co-hosted the Monday edition of 2020 with Charles Gibson and began independent interviews, a field which would soon become her trademark.
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