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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• Palin to Couric: I CAN quit you + Bonus Videos!

  
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  By GottaLaff Blogger McCantWrite is giving "perky" Katie the cold shoulder. Shes not vindictive at all. I guess she was worried that Couric would ask her what she watches on Tee Vee: Sources tell Hotline OnCall that Katie Courics producer sent two requests to Sarah Palins publisher for interviews during the ...
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• NBCs Genie Out Of The Bottle: Letting Brian Be Brian

  
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  NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams has a problem.  Actually, a couple of them named Katie and Diane, but lets first tackle what appears to be an insurmountable obstacle:  himself.  Although Brian is at the top of the nightly news ratings, viewers dont view him as appealing. NBCs tried every which way ...
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• Reagan Never Went Rogue

  
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  As Sarah Palin embarks on a publicity tour for her book, conservative commentators have again taken to likening the former Alaska governor to the GOP’s revered conservative icon Ronald Reagan.  Palin, like Reagan, brands herself as an articulate conservative. Both Palin and Reagan were governors from Western ...
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• Saving the World, One Baby Butt at a Time

  
  LA Moms Blog — Authority: 132
  Its all Katie Courics fault. Im a full-time out-of-the-home working mother.  I have two little boys under 5.  I have an often demanding job and a total of 1.5 hours of commute time daily.  I have a giant mountain of laundry that never decreases in size, a body to exercise, four blogs to maintain, and an endless ...
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• Chapter Four – Going Rogue (Part 2 of 3)

  
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  Page 254 (Posted previously in sneak peek) A TV station in Alaska was willing to spend any amount to get a local reporter on the scene of the nomination to ask “simple, softball scripted questions,” but the campaign wouldn’t allow it. She was hoping the national media would pick up on the simple softball ...
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• Winners and Losers: The Going Rogue Edition

  
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  This week our favorite lady from Wasilla once again sucked the air out of the national conversation with the release of her mega-hyped memoir Going Rogue . So who were the winners and losers of Palinpalooza? WINNER Sarah Palin , who not only sold a ton of books and reemerged on the national stage (to the ...
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• Countdown Devotes Number One Story To Used Sarah Palin Jokes

  
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  Maybe Friday was an exceptionally slow news day. In fact, in a week of all Twilight ,  Oprah , and Going Rogue , real news did seem to cease. But does that really give Countdown — with Lawrence O’Donnell sitting in for Olbermann — license to forgo their headline story altogether in favor of a highlight ...
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• Sarah Palin finally acknowledges her ‘mistakes’ during 2008 vice-presidential campaign

  
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  Washington, Nov. 21 (ANI): Former US vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has acknowledged that she “made mistakes” while dealing with the media during the 2008 campaign.“There were mistakes being made in the campaign. I made mistakes in the campaign,” Palin said in an interview with Fox News’ Bill ...
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• Katie Couric - Look for Less

  
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• Palin’s Stunning Failure To Solve Riddle Confirms She Doesn’t Read Newspapers

  
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  WHAT IS BLACK AND WHITE AND ‘ READ ‘ ALL OVER? “A BLOODY ALASKAN WOLF, AFTER I’VE SHOT IT FROM A HELICOPTER.”
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• Obama comes up on his first year in office former Governor Palin still has more Executive experience.

  
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  What would the mainstream media’s response be if former governor Sarah Palin described China’s economic growth to an audience of students in Shanghai as “an accomplishment unparalleled in human history”? That is what the most inexperienced president in modern American history said in Shanghai this ...
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• Memo to CBS and Katie Couric: Release the unedited Palin video.

  
  Althouse — Authority: 755
  In "Going Rogue," Sarah Palin criticizes CBS for editing long interviews into the most damaging soundbites and making her look stupid and irritable. Theres an easy solution: Release the unedited video. There is a lot of material in the book making assertions about all sorts of trenchant comments Palin supposedly made. ...
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• Notebook: Military Obesity

  
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  A new Pentagon report concludes that almost three-quarters of potential recruits are unable to enlist. One major factor is obesity.
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• Poetry Friday: The Shine of Sapphire

  
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• Gainor Column: Ready to Pay Your $6 Trillion Climate Justice Bill?

  
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  The $1,000 bill has President Grover Cleveland’s face on it. The $100,000 bill has the dour image of President Woodrow Wilson. We’ve already seen President Barack Obama attach his name and face to the $787 billion stimulus bill. And if the left has its way, the face on the $6 trillion “climate justice” bill ...
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• Sarah Palin Creates Entire New Genre Of Rogue Indexes

  
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  One of the very first things to be noted about Sarah Palin’s memoir Going Rogue was that, in very un-Beltway tradition, it did not have an index. While the move on Palin’s part was obviously an intentional one — whether to drive D.C. types crazy and force them to read the whole book, or merely further prove ...
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• Notebook: Mammograms

  
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