Connie Chung, Emmy Award winning journalist, and her husband, fellow TV veteran Maury Povich, joined MSNBC in January 2006 to anchor a weekly, half-hour program, "Weekends with Maury and Connie".

Ms. Chung has a long history in TV news that began in 1969 in her hometown of Washington, D.C., where she worked at WTTG-TV Metromedia (now Fox), first as a copy person, then as a news writer and later, news reporter.

She joined CBS News in 1971 as a national correspondent for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. She was based in Washington, D.C., covering the 1972 presidential campaign of Senator George McGovern (D-S.D.), the 1972 Democratic National Convention, Watergate, the Vice-Presidency of Nelson Rockefeller, Capitol Hill and politics in general. In addition, she traveled overseas to report on the Nixon/Brezhnev SALT I talks and on President Nixon's final trip tot he Middle East.

In 1976, Ms. Chung moved to Los Angeles, where she spent seven years as an anchor at KNXT-TV (now CBS), the CBS-owned station.

In 1983, she joined NBC News as a correspondent and anchor. Her assignments included anchoring the Saturday edition of the "NBC Nightly News", "NBC News at Sunrise", "NBC News Digests", several primetime specials and a news magazine. While at NBC News, Ms. Chung was a subsitute anchor for "NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw". She was a floor correspondent at the 1984 political conventions and a podium correspondent during the 1988 conventions and provided political reporting and analysis during the presidential campaigns and election nights in 1984, 1986 and 1998.

Ms. Chung rejoined CBS in 1989 as anchor and correspondent of "Saturday Night With Connie Chung" and also anchored the Sunday edition of the "CBS Evening News". In 1990, she became the anchor of the Emmy-Award winning CBS News primetime magazine program, "Face to Face with Connie Chung". During this time, Ms. Chung conducted a series of exclusive interviews, including the first and only television interview of Joseph Hazelwood, the Captain of the Exxon Valdez; and the first interview with Los Angeles Lakers star Magic Johnson after his announcement that he was HIV positive.

From 1993 to 1995, Ms. Chung was co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and Connie Chung", and anchor and correspondent on "Eye to Eye with Connie Chung". During that time, she covered the historic Israel/PLO signing ceremony at the White House, the Israel/Jordan signing ceremony in the Middle East and she obtained an exclusive interview with Chinese leader Li Peng on the five year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Ms. Chung was a floor reporter for CBS coverage in 1990, 1992 and 1994.

During 1997, Ms. Chung was a Harvard fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In November 1997, she joined ABC News as co-anchor and correspondent on the ABC News primetime news magazine 20/20.

During the 1999-2000 20/20 season, Ms. Chung was awarded the Amnesty International Human Rights Award for her report that revealed that young women in Bangladesh are being brutally burned with acid in acts of revenge for turning down a man's advances.

Also, during the 1999-2000 20/20 season, Ms. Chung won several awards for "Justice Delayed", an investigative hour that uncovered new information in the 1966 murder of a black Mississippi man named Ben Chester White. As a result of the new information, the U.S. Justice Department re-opened the case after more than three decades and indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced Ernest Avants for the murder. He had lived freely since his acquittal on state murder charges in 1966.

In 2001, Ms. Chung conducted a criticallly acclaimed interview with controversial Congressman Gary Condit (D-Calif.) concerning the disappearance of his Capitol Hill intern Chandra Levy.

In January 2002, Ms. Chung joined CNN to anchor "Connie Chung Tonight". She left on-air duties at CNN in March 2003.

She has received three Emmy Awards, including two for Best Interview/Interviewer. In addition, she is the recipient of a George Foster Peabody Award, honors from American Women in Radio and Television and an Outstanding Young Woman of America Award.

Ms. Chung graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science degree. She also has honorary doctorate degrees from Brown University, Providence College, Wheaton College and Norwich University. She and Maury Povich live with their son, Matthew, in Manhattan.

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