Katie Couric

Katie Couric is a broadcast journalist, and one of the most recognizable and popular television news personalities.

Born January 7, 1957 in Arlington, Virginia she graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 and became as a desk assistant at ABC News in Washington, D.C.  In 1980, Couric became an assignment editor, and for a short time a producer, at CNN. From 1984 through 1989 she worked at local affiliates, in Miami and Washington D.C. During that time, she won an Emmy and an Associated Press Award for her work. She joined NBC News in 1989, as national political correspondent, and became the permanent co-anchor of Today on April 5, 1991. Couric also did regular reports for Dateline NBC.

On September 5, 2006 she became the first solo female anchor of the weekday evening news on one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks. She currently serves as the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News. CBS Evening News with Katie Couric was given the 2008 Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast.

Katie Couric married John Paul Monahan in 1989, they had two daughters. After his death in 1998, due to colon cancer, she helped found the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, (NCCRA).

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• Katie Couric Dancing

  
  wisnuaji dot com — Authority: 521
  “Katie Couric Lets Lose On The Dance Floor,” reads one headline. Gawker calls it “Katie Couric’s Forbidden Dance of Gin.” The Katie Couric Dancing photos and an accompanying YouTube video of still images of Katie rocking to the beat are a bit dated - but anytime you can see the one time perky [...]
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• Going Vogue: Anna Wintour Meets Alaskan Winter

  
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  Question: What do Sarah Palin s new book and Vogue magazine have in common? Answer: Both are glossy, insubstantial, and full of lies. We know Sarah Palin isnt the biggest fan of Vogue , but we think shed do really well guest-editing her own issue. So weve worked up a sample cover in the style of our Cover Lies ...
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• Katie Courics Forbidden Dance of Gin

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  When CBS News anchor Katie Couric isnt asking Sarah Palin gotcha questions, shes doin Da Butt, or the Lambada, or whatever white ladies do when the Black Eyed Peas are on the sound system. More unbelievable images after the jump. UPDATE: Weve learned that these are from the after-party celebrating Courics debut as ...
  13 hours ago

• No That Isn’t Katie Couric

  
  Hip Hop Honey Online Magazine — Authority: 456
  I guess after all of those hard interviews and news stories you have to let the steam out some kind of way….
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• Katie Couric Gets Freaky On The Dance Floor

  
  Celebrity Scandals | Celebrity Gossip | Dickism.com — Authority: 145
  These pictures of Katie Couric getting freaky with her lesbian self on the dance floor remind me of some of those old horror films that used to keep me up for days when I was just a young little boy. What the hell was she thinking?
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• Katie Couric – Dance Like No One Is Watching

  
  EON — Authority: 489
  Most of you know Katie Couric as the news anchor for CBS, but what you don’t know is that Couric also likes to get her grove on the dance floor too. In a series of photos found on Facebook, Couric brings the laughs while busting a move on the dance floor. Gawker reports the photos are from the after-party ...
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• Katie Couric Dancing PHOTOS!

  
  lalate news - America's Fastest Growing Celebrity News Site! — Authority: 659
  PHOTOS! Katie Couric hit the flo and went low, low, low in new dancing Facebook pictures. Katie Couric’s dance pics are a blend of Seinfield’s Elaine dance meets T-Pain’s “Low”.In these pictures, Couric hit the flo and shows she can have fun while looking great at it. The news pictures unearthed by Gawker ...
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• Katie Couric Dance Photos Online; Katie Couric’s Funky Dance Pics, Video

  
  TV Crunch — Authority: 609
  Katie Couric dance pictures Katie Couric dance photos are making the rounds online and from what we can tell, Katie Couric is getting her dance groove on pretty good. If Katie Couric dance pictures are the most scandalous thing someone can dig up on the news anchor, she’s doing pretty well. The Katie Couric ...
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• O,Come All Ye Faithful

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 520
  Katie Couric makes a bizarre, shameless pimp for Obamas Senate health care bill on Mondays CBS Evening News.  Hark The Herald Angles Sing: Hat tip: NewsBusters  with the mutilation of  Twas The Night Before Christmas. "Edward R. Murrow is spinning in his grave." Vinney, Chickaboomers head joke writer
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• Bonehead Of The Day

  
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  “A page from my notebook” that someone else probably wrote. Third place and holding…
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• Shawty Got Low Low Low Low Low Low Low

  
  DAVID DUST — Authority: 515
  Gawker published these pictures of Katie Couric celebrating her first broadcast as CBS News anchor back in 2006. Looks like Couric drank up the entire bar and proceeded to get up on the good foot. Diva!
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• Hot Stuff

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 520
  Who leaked those Katie Couric super freak photos to Gawker ?  Apparently they were shot sometime after her September 2006 CBS News anchoress debut.  Has the catfight already started between Diane Sawyer and "the perky one" - as Sarah Palin dismisses Katie on her book pimp media tour?  Maybe the Hansel and ...
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• Embarrassing: Couric Recites Christmas Poem for ObamaCare

  
  JammieWearingFool — Authority: 724
  If there was even a shred of doubt the media is in the tank for the Democrats, this should remove it once and for all. Its hard to believe someone who pretends to be an objective news anchor would whore themselves out like this, but here it is. It wasnt seen on the actual CBS Evening News, but rather online. Still, ...
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• Katie Couric Dips it Low Backs it up Slow Shakes it all Around!

  
  In Yo Business! Cause somebody has to do it! — Authority: 149
  Katie Couric is not your typical stuff shirt news anchor. Take that Sarah Palin. LOL. Katie knows how to get loose at the appropriate time and in the appropriate places. Look at Katie, never thought you’d see her on the dance floor shaking it up like this did ya? Related posts: Sarah Palin to do ...
  18 hours ago

• In case you missed it: Katie Couric gets her freak on (pics)

  
  WagerWeb Entertainment — Authority: 525
  Photos of Katie Couric reportedly celebrating her September 2006 debut as anchor of the CBS Evening News have made their way onto Facebook. The pictures show Couric… hmmm… ‘letting loose’ on the dance floor. The photos of Couric dancing were said to have come from an Facebook album entitled, “Four ...
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• If Deepak Says Its True...

  
  Slant Eye For The Round Eye — Authority: 438
  From The Chopra To The Huff To The You: A recent Gallup poll showed that 67% of responders dont want Palin to run for president. Fear of Palin is ill-advised on two counts. First, fear is what the shadow wants. Without it, the shadow has no power. Second, the left needs to learn how to win graciously. The current ...
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• Katie Couric Does the Forbidden Dance…in Public

  
  EUR This N That | Urban Black News Blog — Authority: 509
  Katie Couric comes off as pretty rigid right?  She’s tight lipped, but, obviously, not tight hipped.  Looks like she just needed a little “encouragement” (aka Hennessy).  She even gets a little skanky in one of the pics below.The pics showed up on gawker.com from a “tipster” saying that she was partying ...
  22 hours ago

• CBS Catches Up with Conservatives and Realizes Obama Has Credibility Problem

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 834
  Long after conservatives and the American people figured it out, CBS on Monday night came to the realization President Barack Obama has a “credibility” problem fueled by the “disconnect” between Obamas promise to reduce the deficit as he pushes for massive new spending. Back in August, the CBS Evening News ...
  23 hours ago

• CAPTION THIS!

  
  Stuff Fly People Like — Authority: 150
  I can’t… Recently pics of Katie Couric celebrating her 2006 tittle of Anchor Woman @ the CBS Evening News Emerged on Facebook… CAPTION THIS! She’s is gettin it IN!!! LMAO! -Stay FLY! [ source ] Spread the Word!:
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• Katie Couric Dancing Photos

  
  Pop Crunch — Authority: 733
  Say hello to Katie Couric, Lord of The Dance. The roving reporters @ Gawker.com got their hot little hands on several Facebook images of respected journalist Katie Couric doing something similar to the “Stanky Leg” — and an assortment of other dances that should be outlawed for people over 40 — as she ...
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