Forum From the Archives: Pioneering Journalist Connie Chung on a Lifetime of Newsmaking

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🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Connie Chung was the first Asian person to anchor a national network news program in the US and the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News. For decades she covered major national stories from Watergate to the Oklahoma City bombing and interviewed presidents and foreign leaders. She also came up in newsrooms of the 1970s and 80s that were beset by rampant sexism. We listen back to our September conversation with Chung about what she calls her “glorious highs and deep lows in the news business” and why, until recently, she struggled to believe she’d found success. Chung’s memoir is “Connie.” Guests: Connie Chung, broadcast journalist; author, "Connie: A Memoir" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.5	Coming up on forum, we listened back to my September conversation with Connie Chung. The first Asian
1:11.7	American to anchor a national network news program in the U.S., she covered everything from Watergate
1:16.7	to the Oklahoma City bombing and landed coveted interviews, including Magic Johnson after he announced
1:22.3	he was HIV positive. But coming up in the 70s and 80s meant facing rampant sexism inside and outside the
1:29.8	newsroom. Hello, Ronnie. How are you, dear? Nice to see you. You're a pretty or never.
1:36.1	We talk with Chung about why only recently she's allowed herself to believe she'd found success.
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1:58.5	This is the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and Connie Chuck.
2:05.9	Untold numbers of Asian parents in the 70s, 80s, and 90s named their daughters after Connie Chung,
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