Connie Chung Biography
Connie Chung is a journalist, anchor, and reporter from the United States. She has worked as an anchor and reporter for television news networks such as CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC in the United States. She has interviewed celebrities such as Claus von Bülow and U.S. Representative Gary Condit.
Connie Chung Age
Connie Chung was born in Washington, D.C., United States on August 20, 1946. She is 77 years old.
Connie Chung Height
Connie is 5 feet 5 inches/1.62 m tall.
Connie Chung Family
Connie’s parents are William Ling Chung and her mother. She is the youngest of ten children, born less than a year after her family immigrated from China, and raised in Washington, D.C. Her father worked as an intelligence officer for the Chinese Nationalist Government, and five of her siblings died during the war. She is of Asian descent and holds US citizenship.
Connie Chung Husband
Connie has been married to her husband, talk show host Maury Povich, since 1984. During her marriage to Maury, she converted to Judaism. Connie has since become devoted to the faith, and she and her family attend synagogue. Matthew, their only child, was adopted on June 20, 1995.
Connie Chung Children
Connie and her husband, Maury, have one son, Mathew. On June 20, 1995, they adopted him.
Connie Chung Education
Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland was Connie’s alma mater. In 1969, she earned a journalism degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Connie Chung Salary
Connie receives an annual salary of $82,354.
Connie Chung’s Net Worth
Connie’s approximate net worth is $1 million.
Connie Chung Career
Connie Chung has worked as an anchor and reporter for the television news networks CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC in the United States. Connie has interviewed celebrities such as Claus von Bülow and U.S. Representative Gary Condit.
She interviewed him first after Chandra Levy went missing. Connie also interviewed basketball legend Magic Johnson after he revealed he was HIV-positive. Connie became the only woman to co-anchor a network newscast as part of CBS Evening News in 1993.
She was fired as CBS Evening News co-anchor in 1995 after a contentious interview with a firefighter during the Oklahoma City bombing rescue efforts. Her interview tactics to get Newt Gingrich’s mother to admit her unguarded thoughts about Hillary Clinton appeared inappropriately combative.
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