Connie Chung on her new memoir, the future of women in journalism and Richard Nixon

Beat Check with The Oregonian

Connie Chung is an icon. It’s been almost 20 years since she was regularly on air, but she’s still a household name and a namesake for a generation of Asian American women.

Americans remember her as one of the faces of the news, from the 1970s through the early 2000s. She interviewed Nixon and Oregon’s one-time Olympic darling-turned-national villain, Tonya Harding and covered the events that rocked the country from the O.J. Simpson trial to the Oklahoma City bombing.

In “Connie: A Memoir” released Tuesday from Grand Central Publishing, Chung, now 78, tells her own story.

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