Some public figures achieve immortality with buildings or monuments named after them. Veteran broadcaster Connie Chung has a namesake brand of marijuana, as well as hundreds of Asian-American women as a living legacy.
In this image taken from video, television journalist Connie Chung sits for an interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in New York. FILE - Connie Chung , right, works with Jane Pauley, Nov. 11, 1983, in New York, as she prepares to take over as hostess of NBC television’s Today Show, as Pauley is taking maternity leave.
Clearly, a career in television news had a greater impact than she knew. Chung, now 78, tells stories about her life in a newChung’s career took her from Washington reporting for a fabled CBS News bureau in the 1970s through anchor jobs in Los Angeles and at NBC News and anwith Dan Rather at the “CBS Evening News” in the 1990s to dodging the Barbara Walters-Diane Sawyer rivalry at ABC News.
Quickly out of college and two years in local news, Chung earned a job at CBS, in part because there was pressure in the late 1960s and early 1970s to make television a little less of a white man’s world. Chung became a news anchor locally in Los Angeles and, in the 1980s, at NBC News. Yet she said she was saddled too often with what were considered “women’s stories,” about miniskirts at the beginning of her career to celebrity profiles and tabloid fodder like “Scared Sexless,” about AIDS, at NBC.
She moved back to CBS News and, with Dan Rather struggling in the ratings as “CBS Evening News” anchor in 1993, was named his co-anchor. It seemed like a career peak, but Chung wrote that she had an inkling of what was to come in her first meeting with Rather, when he said, “now you are going to have to start reading the newspaper.”
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