This year TV news journalist Connie Chung wrote a new tell-all memoir. It's about breaking into the boys club of her industry, her marriage to Maury Povitch, and the big scoops of her career. The funny and off-the-cuff news icon spoke with Tonya Mosley. Also, jazz historian Kevin Whitehead remembers musicians who died this year.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. We're looking back at some of our favorite interviews of the year. Today, pioneering TV journalist Connie Chung. When Chung appeared on television back in the 70s, it was the first time many Americans had seen an Asian woman reporting the news and setting the national conversation with her interviews with heads of state and controversial figures.
For three decades, Chung was a key player in every major news cycle, covering Capitol Hill, the White House, the Pentagon, and the State Department. In 1991, she was the first journalist to get a sit-down interview with Magic Johnson, just a month after he announced his HIV status.
Connie Chung has worked for ABC, both NBC and MSNBC, CNN and CBS, where she got her start and later became the first woman to co-anchor the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and the second woman in the history of television news to anchor an evening newscast.
I spoke with Chung in September for her memoir, where she gives a behind-the-scenes look at what it took for her to climb to the top of the male-dominated field of TV news. Chung spills the tea on some well-known celebrities and politicians who hit on her, and she doesn't shy away from naming names of people who crossed her and sometimes made her job more difficult than it needed to be.
We also talk about one of the more challenging interviews with Donald Trump in 1990.
What Donald Trump does, of course, is make a lot of money and make sure everybody knows it. A yacht, a mansion, a bigger mansion, an airline, two casinos, a bigger casino.
That is really incredible. There's nothing like it. There's nothing like this place.
By now, his possessions are more familiar to us than what we have hanging in our own closets. His buildings? Well, you know which ones they are.
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