Pioneering Journalist Connie Chung on a Lifetime of Newsmaking

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🗓️ 30 September 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 talk to 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 new 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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1:00.7	Coming up on forum, pioneering journalist Connie Chung, the first Asian-American to anchor a national network news program in the U.S.
1:08.1	She covered everything from Watergate to the Oklahoma City bombing,
1:11.8	and landed coveted interviews, including Magic Johnson, after he announced he was HIV-positive.
1:17.7	But coming up in the 70s and 80s meant facing rampant sexism, inside and outside the newsroom.
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1:26.6	You're a pretty or never.
1:29.0	We talk with Chong about why.
1:31.2	Only recently that she's allowed herself to believe she's found success.
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