Connie Chung talks facing doubt and being the only Asian American woman in the room

Asian American broadcast journalist Connie Chung appeared on TODAY, reflecting her 40 year career and encounters with racism and sexism.

At the beginning of her decades-long career in broadcast journalism, a network executive told Connie Chung that she’d never make it in the industry. 

“I was not only a woman, but I was Chinese,” Chung, 78, said on the NBC's TODAY show while promoting her new memoir, “Connie.”

Chung, who broke ground as the first Asian American and second woman to anchor a major network broadcast, said the doubts never stopped her. In her 40 years as a journalist, Chung anchored for almost every major network. She covered the Watergate scandal in her 20s and went on to interview everyone from Magic Johnson to Donald Trump to Bill Clinton. 

She was usually working opposite a white man, or in rooms surrounded by them. 

“Usually it was a ‘he’ who had delusions of grandeur, who talked too much, whose heads you couldn’t fit inside Madison Square Garden,” she said on TODAY.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/connie-chung-memoir-asian-american-woman-rcna171483

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