Connie Chung

About Connie Chung

Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich (née Chung) is an American journalist who has been a news 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. Representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. In 1993, she became the second woman to co-anchor a network newscast as part of CBS Evening News.

Chung is of Chinese descent. She has been married to talk show host Maury Povich since 1984 and they have one adopted son, Matthew Jay Povich, who they adopted on June 20, 1995. Chung converted to Judaism at the time of her marriage to Povich.