How Connie Chung Learned to Stop Worrying and Get Personal: ‘I Was Uncomfortable, Frankly’

Connie Chung doesn’t like getting personal. “I was uncomfortable, frankly,” the 78-year-old news veteran tells TVNewser with a resigned smile while describing the “torturous” process of turning her life into a literal open book—specifically the new autobiography, Connie: A Memoir. It’s no surprise, then, that her first draft stuck to the “just the facts” approach Chung favors as a pioneering TV journalist whose career has spanned decades—and all three broadcast networks.But that’s not the version of her life that her editor wanted to read. “She told me, ‘You have to…

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