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This is Fresh Air, I'm Tanya Mosley. Say the name Connie Chung to anyone alive during the peak of television news, and really you don't have to say much else.

When Chung first appeared on TV in the 70s, And really you don't have to say much else.

When Chang first appeared on TV in the 70s,

it was the first time many Americans had seen an Asian woman,

not only reporting the news,

but setting the national conversation with her interviews with heads of state

and controversial figures. For three decades Chung has been a key player in every

major news cycle covering Capitol Hill, the White House, the Pentagon, and the State

Department. She's also interviewed influential people dominating the headlines

like in 1991 when she was the first journalist to sit down with Magic Johnson just a month after he announced his HIV status.

Connie Chang has written a new memoir that chronicles her expansive career.

And she also gives us a behind the scenes look

at what it took for her to climb to the top of this male dominated field.

Chung has a great sense of humor, and this I have to say is funny and also a little

salacious because Chang names names in this book from colleagues and news bosses who

crossed her or made her job much more difficult than it needed to be and start in local television news and she's worked for almost all of the major

television news outlets ABC CNN and CBS where she got her start and later became

the first woman to co-anch anchor the evening news with Dan Rather.

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