Connie Chung Parents: Meet William Ling Chung, Margaret Ma

Connie Chung is an American journalist. Connie Chung is the daughter of Ling Chung and Margaret Ma.

Connie Chung, the youngest of ten children, was born and raised in Washington, D.C., less than a year after her family immigrated from China.

Her father, William Ling Chung, was a Chinese Nationalist Government intelligence officer, and five of her siblings died during the war. In 1969, she graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a degree in journalism.

Connie Chung began her career as a reporter in the early 1970s. As part of CBS Evening News in 1993, she became the second woman to co-anchor a network newscast.

Connie Chung has worked as a news anchor and reporter for 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 following the disappearance of Chandra Levy and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he revealed he was HIV-positive.