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People Just Want The Facts Says Award-Winning Journalist Connie Chung
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6:12Now PlayingConnie Chung, pioneer news anchor and reporter, was the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News, the flagship news broadcast on CBS. Also, Connie was the first Asian to anchor any news program on CBS, NBC, and ABC. Both were milestones in broadcast television history.
Connie Chung’s career began in 1969 in her hometown at WTTG-TV Metromedia (now Fox), first as a copy person, then newsroom secretary, then newswriter and news reporter.
In 1971, she joined CBS News as a national correspondent for the “CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite.” Based in Washington, D.C., she covered Capitol Hill, the White House, Pentagon, State Department, and politics in general.
She was assigned important beats: the 1972 presidential campaign of Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.), the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami and the Vice Presidency of Nelson Rockefeller. In addition, she covered the Nixon/Brezhnev SALT II talks in the Soviet Union and President Nixon’s final trip to the Middle East. Her most memorable story was the event of the decade, Watergate, the House Judiciary Committee hearings, and the subsequent resignation of President Richard Nixon.
She has received three Emmy Awards, including two for Best Interview/Interviewer. In addition, she is the recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award, honors from American Women in Radio and Television, Outstanding Young Woman of America, Wonder Woman Award and many more. She was named a “Giant of Broadcasting” by the International Radio-TV Society and Womankind’s “Woman of the Year” and has been inducted into the Asian Hall of Fame and the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
Connie Chung joins to discuss the future of broadcast journalism and the changing media landscape.
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