Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich better known as Connie Chung, is an American journalist. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S. Repres...
Special Classification for Outstanding News and Documentary Program Achievement - Programs
TV Shows
Weekends with Maury and Connie (2006)
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I was just going at this career - boom, boom, boom! Then all of a sudden, at 38, Oh, my God - I forgot to get married!
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Fact
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She was nominated for the 2016 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.
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She was nominated for a 2013 New Jersey Hall of Fame for General Services.
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She received teaching fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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She was the first journalist to interview basketball legend Magic Johnson, after he went public about being HIV-positive. She was also the first to interview congressman Gary Condit, after his intern Chandra Levy disappeared.
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Youngest of 10, 5 of whom died in China. She has 4 older living sisters
one is Josephine Chen.
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Met her future husband, Maury Povich, in 1968 at the local TV station in Washington, DC (WTTG), where she was a secretary and he was an anchorman.
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Attended the University of Maryland, where she first majored in Biology and then switched to Journalism.