Editing Connie Chung (section)

===Early career===
Chung was a Washington, D.C.–based [[correspondent]] for the ''[[CBS Evening News]] with [[Walter Cronkite]]'' in the early 1970s during the [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] political scandal. Chung left to anchor evening newscasts for KNXT, a CBS [[owned and operated station]] in Los Angeles (now [[KCBS-TV]]). Her co-anchors at KNXT included [[Joseph Benti|Joe Benti]], [[Brent Musburger]] and [[Jess Marlow]].<ref>{{Citation |title=KNXT Klein& Chung Benti News Promos 1977 | date=March 18, 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB3_zYyYCko |access-date=May 11, 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' TV columnist said Chung "helped give Channel 2 an agreeable, respectable, middle-road identity".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Du Brow |first=Rick |date=January 25, 1992 |title=20 Years of Turmoil Take a Toll at KCBS News |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-01-25-ca-721-story.html |access-date=May 11, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> Chung also anchored CBS's primetime news updates (''CBS Newsbreak'') for West Coast stations from the KNXT studios at [[CBS Columbia Square|Columbia Square]] during her tenure there.

In early 2018, Chung was asked if she was sexually harassed in her career. She replied, "Oh, yeah! Oh, sure. Yeah. Every day. I mean, a lot. Especially when I started out".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2018/02/09/connie-chung-says-she-was-sexually-harassed-every-day/23357459/ |title=Connie Chung says she was sexually harassed 'every day' as she reacts to Matt Lauer and Charlie Rose scandals |publisher=AOL.com |date=February 9, 2018}}</ref> Later that year, following [[Christine Blasey Ford]]'s testimony to the [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Judiciary Committee]] alleging she was sexually assaulted by [[Brett Kavanaugh]], Chung wrote an open letter to Blasey-Ford in which Chung said she was assaulted in college by the doctor who delivered her, during an appointment when she approached him for birth control.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/connie-chung-says-she-was-sexually-assaulted-by-doctor-who-delivered-her/|title=Connie Chung says she was sexually assaulted by doctor who delivered her|date=October 3, 2018|work=[[CBS News]]|first=Sarah|last=Lynch Baldwin}}</ref>