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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• @katiecouric: Sapphire

  
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  Katie Courics intelligent and sensitive interview of "Push" author Sapphire on the new film "Precious" InfiniteBodyhttp://infinitebody.blogspot.com
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• Social Attachment, Motherhood, and Mental Illness

  
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  In early 2010, PBS will broadcast a 3-part series on emotions called “The Emotional Life,” exploring ways to improve relationships, cope with emotional issues, and become more positive, resilient individuals. Hosted by Harvard psychologist and best-selling author Daniel Gilbert, the documentary weaves together ...
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• Going Rogue: An American Life Or An American Lie?

  
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  Goody gumdrops! Sarah Palin’s exciting new book of lies and half-truths hits the shelves next week, but for those who can’t wait ’til Tuesday to get their memoir on, fear not, excerpts are already trickling out from several news agencies and other sources who’ve decided to “Go Rogue” and release their ...
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• McCain Campaign Adviser pushes back on Palin book (Romneybot Nicolle Wallace alert)

  
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  A former top adviser and spokeswoman to John McCains 2008 presidential campaign is pushing back against comments reportedly made by Sarah Palin in her new book. Nicolle Wallace tells CNN that Palins account of an ill-fated interview with CBSs Katie Couric during the 2008 presidential campaign is not true. Original ...
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• The First Ten Lies from Going Rogue

  
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  The First Ten Lies from Going Rogue is written by Geoffrey Dunn, who is an award winning journalist, filmmaker and historian. Excerpts from Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue have been released by several news agencies and other sources who have received advanced copies of the book. Dunn has giving us the first ten lies ...
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• Thats Rogue... not Rouge, boys

  
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  Sarah Palin, the former Alaska Governor and darling of the Conservatives & Tea Partiers everywhere has published her biography and its coming out next week. For those who know better, and Im not just referring to the ones who coined the moniker "Barracuda", the woman we saw on the campaign trail was indeed muzzled ...
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• Interview Done To Bolster Courics Self-Esteem: Palin

  
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  Ah, the joys of people reading early releases of upcoming books, and the joys of Sarah Palins somewhat strange comments. As the release of her new memoir, "Going Rogue," approaches, we now know that Palin agreed to her famous interview with Katie Couric out of pity. The interview with Couric became the stuff of ...
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• Powder To The People

  
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  McCain campaign Sarah Palin book reax .  John Weaver:  " Sarah Palin reminds me of Jimmy Stewart in the movie Harvey, complete with imaginary conversations. All books like these are revisionist and self-serving, by definition,” Weaver wrote in an email to POLITICO. “But the score-settling by someone who wants to ...
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• Palin slammed for using her autobiography for “petty and pathetic” score-settling

  
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  Washington, Nov. 14 (ANI): Senator John McCain’s aides have slammed Sarah Palin for criticizing the press strategy of the former presidential nominee’s campaign in her upcoming book. In her book, Palin charges that the staffers assigned to her by McCain’s team blocked her from speaking to the press aboard the ...
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• (Palin) Thought Katie Was Her Fan: You betch I was suprised (smary quotes from "McCain source")

  
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  Sarah Palin says she was blindsided by Katie Courics devastating interviews last year because John McCains aides lulled her into thinking the CBS anchorwoman was a fan. In Palins new book, "Going Rogue," the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee reveals that her handlers talked up Couric as a working mom - just like her ...
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• Another GTL™ Open Post Friday: Is Sarah Palin “Dumb”? Should 9/11 Terrorist “Mastermind” Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (”KSM”) Be Tried As A Civilian? Should The Obama Administration Legalize Illegal Mexican Aliens? SOUND OFF HERE

  
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  THE Gun Toting Liberal Reaches Out To His Fellow Commentators -Slash- Co-Bloggers And Readers To Furnish Their Opinions On Any Of The Above, Below, Or Anything Else Political One Wishes To O-Pine On…My apologies — it’s been quite awhile yet again since the last time I’ve... This is only a comment summary. ...
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• Notebook: Friday The 13th

  
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  As the year 2009 has three Fridays which fall on the 13th of the month, Katie Couric discusses those who fear this day and why it may not be as unlucky as once thought.
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• SARAH PALIN DIDN’T ANSWER KATIE COURIC’S QUESTIONS BECAUSE SHE WAS TOO BUSY PITYING HER & OTHER AWESOME LIES

  
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  OMG, this is fantastic.*  Sarah Palin’s Memoir ‘I Wear Rouge: An Idiot’s Guide To Taking Down A Campaign and Looking Fantastic!” (written by Lynn Vincent) doesn’t hit shelves till next Tuesday, but the AP has already got a copy and released some excerpts because they are The Media and must do Evil Things ...
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• Cum’on guys…she was just being nice and stuff.

  
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  McCain Adviser Denies Palin’s Claim She Granted Couric Interview Because She Pitied Couric’s Low Self Esteem
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• McCain Adviser Denies Palin’s Claim She Granted Couric Interview Because She Pitied Couric’s Low Self Esteem

  
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  One of the whackiest claims Sarah Palin makes in her new book is that she agreed to her disastrous interview with Katie Couric — a central event during Campaign 2008 — because a top McCain aide told her Couric had low self esteem, leading Palin to take pity on the CBS anchor.A ... The Daily Dish | By Andrew ...
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• Sarah Palin Media Blitz Touches on Bristol’s Teenage Pregnancy

  
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  Sarah Palin’s memoir, Going Rogue , is not officially released until Tuesday, but the media blitz has already started, and the 2008 Republican running mate of John McCain is not shying away from the subject of her daughter Bristol’s teenage pregnancy. The day after Sarah Palin’s vice-presidential candidacy ...
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• Sarah Palins Going Rogue: who the hell was managing the McCain campaign?

  
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  I hadn’t expected there’d be much that was interesting in Sarah Palin’s new book Going Rogue. Quick books (this was turned out in, what, about four months?) usually read like a bunch of boiler-plate set in Very Big Type to pad thin material to book length.But one thing you can say about our Sarah, she’s ...
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• Sarah Palins New Fantasy Novel Is Going to Be the Best Fantasy Novel

  
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  Aay! May! Zing! Matt Drudge somehow Drudged up a nice long chunk of excerpt from Sarah Palins soon-to-be-released book Ecce Sarah: Why I Am So America . And — please allow me to tell you what I I am going to tell you — it does not disappoint. Not at all. It reads like the best Sarah Palin fan fiction any Sarah ...
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• Sarah Palin is dumb.

  
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  By her own words , Sarah Palin is dumb. Here s the excerpt of pages 255-257 of "Going Rogue: An American Life" : By the third week in September, a “Free Sarah” campaign was under way and the press at large was growing increasingly critical of the McCain camp’s decision to keep me, my family ... Political ...
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• Palin Disputes APs Characterization Of Book [Rogue Rules]

  
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  Sarah Palin s book doesnt come out til next week, but recriminations and denials are already flying in every direction. Today: More on Katie Couric s alleged low-self esteem, and the APs close reading. An unnamed McCain aide is disputing Sarah Palins charge in Going Rogue that they gave Katie Couric access ...
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