Connie Chung is one of a very small group of women who have achieved prominence in American network news.

Connie Chung’s illustrious news career has included stints at CBS, NBC and ABC. A University of Maryland graduate, Chung’s career began in 1969 at WTTG-TV in Washington, DC, where she started on the copy desk and rose to reporter. While at CBS news, Chung worked as a national correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite covering such historic events as the 1972 presidential campaign, Watergate and the Nixon/Brezhnev SALT I talks. She worked at NBC News for several years anchoring the weekend Nightly News, NBC News at Sunrise and several primetime specials. She returned to CBS News in 1989, anchoring the Emmy Award winning Face to Face with Connie Chung. In 1993, she co-anchored the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and Connie Chung. In 1997, Chung joined ABC News as co-anchor and correspondent for 20/20. Chung then anchored Connie Chung Tonight on CNN. Chung and her husband, TV talk show host Maury Povich, have one son and live in New York City. They also hosted a show on MSNBC, Weekends with Maury and Connie from 2003–2006.

The youngest of ten children (of whom she and four others survived) of high-ranking Republic of China diplomat from Taiwan, William Chung, she was born and raised in Washington, D.C. 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. She has been married to talk show host Maury Povich since 1984. Together, they have one son, Matthew Jay Povich, adopted on June 20, 1995.