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She also was very active in the [[National Hockey League]]'s [[Hockey Fights Cancer]] campaign, appearing in some [[public service announcement]]s and doing [[voice-over]]s for several others. Couric is currently a [[UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador]] for the United States.
She also was very active in the [[National Hockey League]]'s [[Hockey Fights Cancer]] campaign, appearing in some [[public service announcement]]s and doing [[voice-over]]s for several others. Couric is currently a [[UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador]] for the United States.


On October 7, 2005, Couric broadcast her own [[mammography|mammogram]] on the ''Today'' show, in the hopes of recreating the "Couric Effect" around the issue of [[breast cancer]]. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.<ref>http://nbcumv.com/release_detail.nbc/news-20051006000000-moreonquottoday.html</ref>
On October 7, 2005, Couric broadcast her own [[mammography|mammogram]] on the ''Today'' show, in the hopes of recreating the "Couric Effect" around the issue of [[breast cancer]]. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.<ref>http://nbcumv.com/release_detail.nbc/news-20051006000000-moreonquottoday.html</ref> Katie Couric is a HOE!!


Her sister [[Emily Couric]], a [[Virginia]] [[U.S. Democratic Party|Democratic]] state senator, died of [[pancreatic cancer]] at the age of 54 on October 18, 2001. Couric gave a eulogy at the funeral. She pointed out that it irritated Emily when people asked her if she was Katie Couric's sister. She told the mourners "I just want you to know I will always be proud to say 'I am Emily Couric's sister'." Couric has two other siblings, Clara Couric Bachelor and John M. Couric Jr.
Her sister [[Emily Couric]], a [[Virginia]] [[U.S. Democratic Party|Democratic]] state senator, died of [[pancreatic cancer]] at the age of 54 on October 18, 2001. Couric gave a eulogy at the funeral. She pointed out that it irritated Emily when people asked her if she was Katie Couric's sister. She told the mourners "I just want you to know I will always be proud to say 'I am Emily Couric's sister'." Couric has two other siblings, Clara Couric Bachelor and John M. Couric Jr.

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"Couric" redirects here. For her sister, the Virginia state senator, see Emily Couric.
Katie Couric
Couric in August 2010
Born
Katherine Anne Couric

(1957-01-07) January 7, 1957 (age 67)
Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Virginia
OccupationTelevision journalist
Years active1984–present
Notable credit(s)The Today Show
Dateline NBC
CBS Evening News
60 Minutes
@katiecouric
(Verified Account)
SpouseJay Monahan (1989–1998)
ChildrenElinor Tully "Ellie" Monahan
Caroline Couric Monahan

Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist, currently the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, and host of @katiecouric (her twitter handle), a webshow on CBSNews.com. She is the first solo female anchor of a weekday evening news program on one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks. Before CBS, she was a co-host of NBC's Today, a position she held from 1991 until 2006.

Early life and career

Couric was born in Arlington, Virginia, the daughter of Elinor Tullie (née Hene), a homemaker and part-time writer, and John Martin Couric Jr., a public relations executive and news editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D.C. Her mother was Jewish, but Couric was raised Episcopalian.[1] Couric's maternal grandparents, Bert Hene and Clara L. Froshin, were the children of Jewish immigrants from Germany.[2] In a report for Today, she traced her paternal ancestry back to a French orphan who emigrated to the U.S. in the nineteenth century and became a broker in the cotton business.

Couric attended Arlington, Virginia public schools: Jamestown Elementary, Williamsburg Middle School, and Yorktown High School[3] and was a cheerleader.[4] As a high school student, she was an intern at Washington, D.C. all-news radio station WAVA. She enrolled at her father's alma mater,[5] the University of Virginia, in 1975 and was a Delta Delta Delta sorority sister. Couric served in several positions at UVA's award-winning daily newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. During her third year at UVA, Couric was chosen to live as Head Resident of The Lawn, the heart of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village.[6] She graduated in 1979 with a bachelor's degree in English with a focus on American Studies.[7]

Television career

Couric's first job was at the ABC News bureau in Washington, D.C., later joining CNN as an assignment editor. Between 1984 and 1986, she worked as a general-assignment reporter for WTVJ in Miami, Florida. During the following two years, she reported for WRC-TV, the NBC owned-and-operated station in Washington, D.C., work which earned her an Associated Press award and an Emmy.

NBC

Couric joined NBC News in 1989 as Deputy Pentagon Correspondent. From 1989 to 1991, Couric was an anchor substitute and filled in for Bryant Gumbel as host of Today, Jane Pauley, and Deborah Norville as co-anchor of Today, Garrick Utley, Mary Alice Williams, and Maria Shriver as co-host of Sunday Today, and John Palmer, Norville, and Faith Daniels as anchor of the former NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise. She also subbed for Daniels, Norville, and John Palmer as the news anchor on Today'.

Today (1991–2006)

In 1989, Couric joined Today as national political correspondent, becoming a substitute co-host in February 1991 when Norville had a baby. Norville did not return and Couric became permanent co-anchor on April 5, 1991.[8] In 1994, she became co-anchor of Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric—an evening time weekly TV newsmagazine with Tom Brokaw—which was later canceled and folded into part of Dateline NBC, where her reports appeared regularly and she was named contributing anchor. She remained at Today and NBC News until May 31, 2006, when she announced that she would be going to CBS to anchor the CBS Evening News, becoming the first solo female anchor of the "big three" weekday nightly news broadcasts.[7]

Katie Couric has filled in for Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News. Couric has also filled in for Maria Shriver on the Sunday Edition of NBC Nightly News from 1989-1993.

Couric hosted or worked on a number of news specials, like Everybody's Business: America's Children in 1995. Similar entertainment specials were Legend to Legend Night: A Celebrity Cavalcade in 1993, and Harry Potter: Behind the Magic in 2001. Couric has also co-hosted the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games. She has broadcast with Bob Costas, beginning with the 2000 Summer Olympics. She did not co-host the 2006 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Turin, Italy because of a scheduling conflict with a live taping of Today. Brian Williams co-hosted with Bob Costas instead.

Couric has interviewed many international political figures and celebrities during her career, including Presidents Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and First Lady Barbara Bush. John F. Kennedy Jr. gave Couric his first and last interviews. Couric has won multiple television reporting awards through her career, including the prestigious Peabody Award for her series Confronting Colon Cancer. Couric has also interviewed former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Senator Hillary Clinton (her first television interview), Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, and Laura Bush.[8]

On May 28, 2008, Couric made a return visit to Today since leaving almost two years to the very day back on May 31, 2006. She made this appearance alongside her evening counterparts, NBC Nightly News' Brian Williams & ABC World News' Charles Gibson, to promote an organization called Stand Up to Cancer and raise cancer awareness on all three major television networks; ABC, CBS & NBC. Couric, Gibson and Williams made appearances together on all three major network morning shows, first on CBS's Early Show, then on NBC's Today and finally on ABC's Good Morning America.[7]

CBS

CBS Evening News (2006–present)

Couric in 2007

Couric announced on April 5, 2006 that she would be leaving the Today Show.[9] CBS officially confirmed later the same day that Couric would become the new anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News with her first broadcast set for September 5, 2006. Couric would also contribute to 60 Minutes and anchor prime time news specials for CBS. Couric would remain the highest-paid news anchor at $15 million per year.[10]

Couric made her first broadcast as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric on September 5, 2006. The program featured a new set, new graphics, and a new theme (composed by prolific movie score composer James Horner,[11] and featuring a voice over from Walter Cronkite). It was the first evening newscast to be simulcast live on the internet and local radio stations.

CBS had heavily hyped Couric's arrival at the network, hoping to revive the evening news format, but there were suggestions that it had backfired.[12] Although there was much interest during her first week as anchor,[13] CBS Evening News has remained a distant third in viewership, behind ABC World News and NBC Nightly News.[14][15][16] While Couric improved over Bob Schieffer, ABC's Charles Gibson has since been widening World News' lead over Evening News.[17]

The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric has won the 2008 and 2009 Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast. On March 29, 2009, Couric was awarded with the Emmy Governor's Award for her broadcasting career.

She has interviewed the likes of President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards just after their announcement that Mrs. Edwards' cancer had returned, Israeli Foreign Prime Minister Tzipi Livni, Norah Jones and Michael J. Fox.[18]

Couric led CBS News' coverage of the 2006 midterm elections, the 2008 Presidential election and conventions, and 2010 midterm elections. Couric was the first network anchor on the ground in Port au Prince after the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. After the BP oil spill Couric anchored from the Gulf Coast weekly and brought much attention to the disaster. She reported from Cairo's Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Revolution in 2011.

Couric was the only solo female evening news anchor in the United States, until December 21, 2009, when she was joined by Diane Sawyer, who succeeded the retiring Charles Gibson for ABC World News. Couric and Sawyer were previous rivals as the hosts of Today and Good Morning America, respectively.[19]

On April 3, 2011, The Associated Press reported that Couric would be leaving her anchor post at CBS Evening News.[20]

60 Minutes (2006–present)

Couric is a 60 Minutes correspondent and contributes six to eight stories a year for the program. Her most famous segment was the first interview with airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger.

The Palin interviews (2008)

The Sarah Palin interviews with Katie Couric were a series of interviews Couric conducted with 2008 U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. They were recorded and broadcast on television in several programs before the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Couric received the Walter Cronkite Award for Journalism Excellence for the interview.[21][22][23] Steve Schmidt, McCain's senior campaign strategist and advisor, later reflected on the interview, saying "I think it was the most consequential interview from a negative perspective that a candidate for national office has gone through."[24]

CBS Reports (2009–present)

Couric is the lead reporter for the current incarnation of the CBS Reports series, which airs across all CBS News platforms. The first series, "CBS Reports: Children of the Recession," won the Columbia School of Journalism's Alfred DuPont Award for Excellence in Journalism.[25] The second series, currently airing, is "CBS Reports: Where America Stands.

@katiecouric (2009–present)

Couric hosts a weekly, one-hour interview program on CBSNews.com. The launch of the webshow has signaled that Couric will stay at CBS for the foreseeable future.[26]

Her first guest was Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck. Subsequent interviews have included former Vice President Al Gore, actor Hugh Jackman, recording artist Shakira, First Lady Michelle Obama, and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, and teen singer Justin Bieber.

Public image

Couric has been called "America's Sweetheart" largely due to her co-anchor role for 15 years on The Today Show.[27] On May 12, 2003, Couric guest-hosted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as part of a swap campaign, and had 45 percent more viewers than on other nights. She has been the only guest host used by Jay Leno on either The Tonight Show with Jay Leno or his short lived The Jay Leno Show. Leno filled in for her on "The Today Show" that same day. CNN and the New York Daily News noted that instead of using Jay Leno's regular solid desk, "workers cut away the front of her desk to expose her legs while she interviewed American Idol judge Simon Cowell and Austin Powers star Mike Myers".[28]

Other work

In a media crossover to animated film, she was the voice of news-reporter "Katie Current" in the U.S. version of the film Shark Tale. She also made a cameo appearance as a prison guard at Georgia State Prison in Austin Powers in Goldmember. She guest-starred as herself on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown in 1992 and in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace in late 2002. On May 12, 2003, she traded places for a day with Tonight Show host Jay Leno. Couric also co-hosted NBC's live coverage of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade from 1991 until 2005. Katie Couric delivered the graduation speech at Princeton University on June 1, 2009.[29] She also works with Carmen Marc Valvo to help publicize the deadliness, yet preventability, of colorectal cancer. On May 16, 2010, Katie Couric received an honorary doctor of science degree for her efforts in raising awareness of colorectal cancer and for her commitment to advancing medical research from Case Western Reserve University, and later gave the university's 2010 convocation keynote address.[30] She hosted a Sesame Street special, "When Families Grieve." The special which aired on PBS on April 14, 2010 dealt with the issues that children go through when a parent dies. On February 6, 2011, Couric guest-starred on the post-Super Bowl episode of Glee, playing herself interviewing Sue Sylvester after the cheerleading team lost the championship.[31]

Personal life

Couric married Jay Monahan in 1989. She gave birth to her first daughter, Elinor Tully "Ellie" Monahan, on July 23, 1991; her second daughter, Caroline "Carrie" Couric Monahan, was born on January 5, 1996. Jay Monahan died of colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 42; as a result, Couric is a spokeswoman for colon cancer awareness. She underwent a colonoscopy on-air in March 2000, and, according to a study[32] published by Archives of Internal Medicine (July 14, 2003), inspired many others to get checked as well:

Katie Couric's televised colon cancer awareness campaign was temporarily associated with an increase in colonoscopy use in 2 different data sets. This illustrates the possibility that a well-known individual can draw attention and support to worthwhile causes.

She also was very active in the National Hockey League's Hockey Fights Cancer campaign, appearing in some public service announcements and doing voice-overs for several others. Couric is currently a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the United States.

On October 7, 2005, Couric broadcast her own mammogram on the Today show, in the hopes of recreating the "Couric Effect" around the issue of breast cancer. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.[33] Katie Couric is a HOE!!

Her sister Emily Couric, a Virginia Democratic state senator, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 54 on October 18, 2001. Couric gave a eulogy at the funeral. She pointed out that it irritated Emily when people asked her if she was Katie Couric's sister. She told the mourners "I just want you to know I will always be proud to say 'I am Emily Couric's sister'." Couric has two other siblings, Clara Couric Bachelor and John M. Couric Jr.

Couric was the honored guest at the 2004 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation fall gala.[34] As the Guest of Honor for the inaugural American Cancer Society Discovery Ball, Couric was recognized for her leadership in increasing cancer awareness and screening.[35]

Sources

  • Klein, Edward (2007), Katie: The Real Story, New York, N.Y., U.S.: Crown, ISBN 0307353516

References

  1. ^ Friedman, Roger (February 13, 2004). "Gibson's 'Passion' in Very 'Select' Theatres". FoxNews.com. Retrieved 2007-04-13.
  2. ^ "Ancestry of Katie Couric". About Genealogy: Couric Family Tree. About.com. p. 2. Retrieved 2007-04-13.
  3. ^ Ask the Expert: Katie Couric. Power to Learn. Cablevision.
  4. ^ Dellinger, Paul (April 14, 2006). "Radford man makes Katie Couric connection". The Roanoke Times. Retrieved 2007-04-28. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  5. ^ Klein 2007, p. 20
  6. ^ Klein 2007, p. 21
  7. ^ a b c "Katie Couric". CBS News. July 6, 2006. Retrieved January 30, 2010. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |year= / |date= mismatch (help)
  8. ^ a b "Katie Couric". NBC News. 2006. Archived from the original on April 27, 2006.
  9. ^ Katie Couric Leaving NBC for CBS | Women Lifestyle, Fashion, Health, Beauty and Personality
  10. ^ "CBS Corporation".
  11. ^ "James Horner". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-03-16.
  12. ^ Kurtz, Howard (December 14, 2009). "For Gibson, little regret, lots of faith in Sawyer". The Washington Post.
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  15. ^ Moore, Frazier (December 18, 2009). "ABC Newsman Charles Gibson's last day at work". Yahoo! News. Associated Press.
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  17. ^ Steinberg, Jacques; Carter, Bill (October 18, 2006). "As Couric Stays in Third, CBS Stresses the Positive". The New York Times.
  18. ^ "Katie Couric — CBS Evening News". CBSNews.com. July 6, 2006.
  19. ^ Sawyer to take over as anchor of ABC evening news; Seattle Times; September 2, 2009
  20. ^ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/03/ap/entertainment/main20050254.shtml
  21. ^ "Katie Couric's Sarah Palin Interview Wins Cronkite Award". March 10, 2009.
  22. ^ "2009 Cronkite Award Winners". March 10, 2009.
  23. ^ "Couric Wins Walter Cronkite Award". CBS News. March 11, 2009.
  24. ^ Steve Schmidt, Unplugged, April 27, 2009 interview with Hugh Hewitt (Townhall).
  25. ^ "The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards — The Journalism School Columbia University". www.journalism.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2010-01-18.
  26. ^ Katie Couric Staying with CBS For the Foreseeable Future; To Host Interview Show on CBSNews.com
  27. ^ Katie Couric: Groundbreaking TV Journalist — Life Portraits; Rachel A. Koestler-Grack; Published by Gareth Stevens, 2009; Pg. 88
  28. ^ Klein 2007, pp. 175
  29. ^ http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/02/02/22593/
  30. ^ http://blog.case.edu/case-news/2010/05/17/commencement2010
  31. ^ "Katie Couric to Appear on Glee". TVGuide.com. Retrieved December 2, 2010.
  32. ^ Colorectal Cancer And The Katie Couric Effect
  33. ^ http://nbcumv.com/release_detail.nbc/news-20051006000000-moreonquottoday.html
  34. ^ 2004 Friends for Life Fall Gala
  35. ^ Crain's Chicago Business
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