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...Connie Chung spoke about the struggle of minorities in journalism and her 27 years of news reporting at the Arco Forum last night...
...Chung, a former co-anchor of the CBS Evening News and a current fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, emphasized the difficulty of being a successful correspondent as a minority journalist...
...There were times when I felt life was difficult," Chung said, explaining that she underwent a "hazing period" as a young, female, Asian-American reporter in Washington...
...Chung described herself as part of the "second wave" of women to break into broadcasting in the early seventies, after Barbara Walters led the first group in the sixties. Over time, Chung said, she struggled to create a niche for herself in a field with few successful minorities...
According to a study published in 1996, 81 percent of TV news organizations don't employ minorities, said Chung. However, Chung said that she hopes her presence is making a difference...