Connie Chung has accepted an invitation from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government to be a fellow for the 1997 spring term.

Chung was co-anchor of CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and Connie Chung and anchor and correspondent on Eye to Eye with Connie Chung. Chung and her husband, Maury Povich, are developing a half-hour news and information program for launch in the fall of 1998, to be produced in partnership with DreamWorks. At the Shorenstein Center, she will write and do research on issues of press and public policy and participate in the Center's weekly seminars.

"Connie Chung was my colleague at CBS News during the Watergate crisis of the early 1970s," said Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center, "and I look forward to welcoming her to the Shorenstein Center, where she is intent on writing a reflective paper on her experiences at very senior levels of network news."

During a long and wide-ranging career in TV journalism, Chung did just about everything. She was an anchor for the CBS Evening News and Saturday Night With Connie Chung. Prior to joining CBS in 1989, she was a correspondent and anchor with NBC News. Her assignments included anchoring the Saturday edition of the NBC Nightly News, NBC News Digest, and several prime-time specials and a newsmagazine. She was also a substitute anchor on NBC Nightly News. From 1971-76, Chung worked at KNXT-TV (now KCBS-TV), the CBS-owned station in Los Angeles, as anchor for its evening newscasts. She was at CBS News as a national

correspondent in its Washington bureau since 1971. She began her career as a copyperson for Metromedia (now Fox) station WTTG-TV in 1969. Chung is the recipient of numerous distinctions, including three Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award.