I’m fascinated by Connie Chung’s true impact on television journalism. A few months ago, I enjoyed reading Connie, A Memoir (2024). Rather than attempt to track her down for an interview (difficult, but not impossible), I offer my analysis of Chung’s legacy and impact in a podcast episode. Tune in to The Epic Career of Connie Chung and my take on Connie Chung’s impact on television news. She’s a bona fide case study in the American Dream as well as tenacity and resilience.

My research for a 2017 podcast episode, The Women Who Reported Watergate, has stayed with me a long time. Affirmative action policies and the changing capability of TV journalism are important pieces of TV history. And, the fact that 60 Minutes‘ Lesley Stahl  and Connie Chung still hang out together occasionally is totally cool. They, along  with Barbara Walters (who Chung dishes about in her memoir), stepped  into the complex and fast-moving Watergate scandal coverage. TV news has never been the same and Chung’s memoir offers details and great stories. 

Connie Chung’s true impact on TV journalism lives on in the Asian women who bear her name, journalists who embrace her commitment to the truth and her first-hand account of TV news’ heyday.