Anchor Connie Chung was brought to tears at a screening of “Good Girls Revolt” at Hearst Tower.
Based on a book written by Chung’s sister-in-law Lynn Povich, the Amazon series is set in the ’60s and follows a group of female journalists at Newsweek who filed a class action lawsuit for discrimination.
“I was crying, this film hits so close to home for me,” Chung, who’s worked at NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN, told us. “Do you have a year to tell you what I have been through as a woman working in journalism? I went through hell. A lot of discrimination, everything you can think of. In the beginning, all of us got ‘women type’ stories. Like covering the first lady instead of the president.”
She further recalled of her start in news: “I would gather information and have to give it to somebody else and not get the byline. Or if I covered the White House, Capitol Hill, the Pentagon or State Department, I had to keep the seat warm for the big correspondent. It is better now, but women have not reached the level of parity yet because management is still white-male-oriented.”
Chung was at the screening — hosted by Elle’s Robbie Myers — with husband Maury Povich along with the show’s executive producer Lynda Obst and cast members Jim Belushi, Grace Gummer and Joy Bryant.
The new series debuts Oct. 28.