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"Couric" wird hierher umgeleitet. Für ihre Schwester, die ehemalige Senatorin des Staates Virginia, siehe Emily Couric.
{{Short description|American journalist (born 1957)}}
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'''Katherine Anne Couric''' (/ˈkɜːrɪk/ ''KURR-ik''; geboren am 7. Januar 1957) ist eine amerikanische Journalistin und Moderatorin. Sie ist Gründerin von Katie Couric Media, einer Multimedia-Nachrichten- und Produktionsfirma. Außerdem gibt sie einen täglichen Newsletter, ''Wake Up Call,'' heraus. Von 2013 bis 2017 war sie der Global News Anchor von Yahoo. Couric war bei allen drei großen Fernsehsendern in den Vereinigten Staaten als Moderatorin tätig und arbeitete zu Beginn ihrer Karriere als Redakteurin für CNN. Von 1989 bis 2006 arbeitete sie für NBC News, von 2006 bis 2011 für CBS News und von 2011 bis 2014 für ABC News. Im Jahr 2021 trat sie als Gastmoderatorin in der Spielshow ''Jeopardy!'' auf und war damit die erste Frau in der Geschichte der amerikanischen Flaggschiff-Version der Show.
'''Katherine Anne Couric''' ( ; born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and presenter. She is founder of Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company. She also publishes a daily newsletter, ''Wake Up Call''. From 2013 to 2017, she was Yahoo's Global News Anchor. Couric has been a television host at all of the Big Three television networks in the United States, and in her early career she was an assignment editor for [[CNN]]. She worked for [[NBC News]] from 1989 to 2006, CBS News from 2006 to 2011, and ABC News from 2011 to 2014. In 2021, she appeared as a guest host for the game show ''Jeopardy!'', the first woman to host the flagship American version of the show in its history.


Zusätzlich zu ihren Rollen in den Fernsehnachrichten war Couric von September 2012 bis Juni 2014 Gastgeberin von ''Katie'', einer syndizierten Tages-Talkshow, die von Disney-ABC Domestic Television produziert wurde. Zu ihren wichtigsten Rollen als Moderatorin gehören die Co-Moderation von ''Today'', die Moderation der ''CBS Evening News'' und ihre Tätigkeit als Korrespondentin für ''60 Minutes''. Courics Buch aus dem Jahr 2011, ''The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives'', war ein Bestseller ''der New York Times''. Im Jahr 2004 wurde Couric in die Television Hall of Fame aufgenommen.
In addition to her roles in television news, Couric hosted ''Katie'', a syndicated daytime talk show produced by Disney–ABC Domestic Television from September 2012 to June 2014. Some of her most important presenting roles include co-host of ''Today'', anchor of the ''CBS Evening News'', and as a correspondent for ''60 Minutes''. Couric's 2011 book, ''The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives'', was a ''[[New York Times]]'' bestseller. In 2004, Couric was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.


== Frühes Leben und Karriere ==
==Early life and career==
Katherine Anne 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, and converted to Presbyterianism before the marriage. Couric's maternal grandparents, Bert Hene and Clara L. Frohsin, were the children of Jewish emigrants from Germany. Couric's father had French, English, Scottish, and German ancestry. She was raised Presbyterian. In a report for ''Today'', she traced her patrilineal ancestry back to a French orphan who immigrated to the U.S. in the 19th century, and became a broker in the cotton business.


Katherine Anne Couric wurde in Arlington, Virginia, als Tochter von Elinor Tullie (geb. Hene), einer Hausfrau und Teilzeitschriftstellerin, und John Martin Couric Jr. geboren, einem PR-Manager und Nachrichtenredakteur bei der ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' und der United Press in Washington, D.C. Ihre Mutter war Jüdin und konvertierte vor der Heirat zum Presbyterianismus. Courics Großeltern mütterlicherseits, Bert Hene und Clara L. Frohsin, waren die Kinder jüdischer Emigranten aus Deutschland. Der Vater von Couric war französischer, englischer, schottischer und deutscher Abstammung. Sie wurde presbyterianisch erzogen. In einem Bericht für ''Today'' führte sie ihre väterliche Abstammung auf ein französisches Waisenkind zurück, das im 19. Jahrhundert in die USA einwanderte und dort als Baumwollhändler tätig war.
Couric attended Arlington Public Schools: Jamestown Elementary, Williamsburg Middle School, and Yorktown High School, and was a cheerleader. 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, the University of Virginia, in 1975, and was a Delta Delta Delta sorority sister. Couric served in several positions at UVA's daily newspaper, ''The Cavalier Daily''. During her fourth year at UVA, Couric was chosen to live as Senior Resident of The Lawn, the heart of [[Thomas Jefferson]]'s Academical Village. She graduated in 1979, with a bachelor's degree in American Studies.


Couric besuchte die öffentlichen Schulen in Arlington: Jamestown Elementary, Williamsburg Middle School und Yorktown High School, und war Cheerleaderin. Als Highschool-Schülerin war sie Praktikantin beim Radiosender WAVA in Washington, D.C., der ausschließlich Nachrichten sendet. 1975 schrieb sie sich an der Universität von Virginia, der Alma Mater ihres Vaters, ein und wurde Schwester der Schwesternschaft Delta Delta Delta. Couric arbeitete in verschiedenen Positionen bei der preisgekrönten Tageszeitung der UVA, ''The Cavalier Daily''. Während ihres vierten Studienjahres an der UVA wurde Couric ausgewählt, als Senior Resident (SR) in The Lawn zu wohnen, dem Herzen von Thomas Jeffersons Academical Village. Sie schloss ihr Studium 1979 mit einem Bachelor-Abschluss in Amerikanistik ab.
==Television career==


== Karriere im Fernsehen ==
===Career beginnings===
Couric's first job in 1979 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 the then-CBS affiliate 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.


=== Anfänge der Karriere ===
===NBC===


Ihren ersten Job hatte Couric 1979 im ABC-Nachrichtenbüro in Washington, D.C., später ging sie als Redakteurin zu CNN. Zwischen 1984 und 1986 arbeitete sie als Reporterin für die damalige CBS-Filiale WTVJ in Miami, Florida. In den folgenden zwei Jahren berichtete sie für WRC-TV, den von NBC betriebenen Sender in Washington, D.C., eine Arbeit, die ihr einen Associated Press Award und einen Emmy einbrachte.
Couric joined ''[[NBC News]]'' in 1989 as Deputy Pentagon Correspondent. From 1989 to 1991, Couric was an anchor substitute. She filled in for Bryant Gumbel as host of ''Today''; Jane Pauley and [[Deborah Norville]] as co-anchor of ''Today''; Boyd Matson, [[Garrick Utley]], Mary Alice Williams, and Maria Shriver as co-host of Sunday ''Today''; Chris Wallace, [[Garrick Utley]] and Tim Russert as anchor of Meet The Press, Scott Simon, Mike Schneider (news anchor) , Jack Ford, Jackie Nespral, Giselle Fernandez and Jodi Applegate as co-host of "Weekend Today''; Connie Chung, Bob Jamieson, John Palmer, Norville, Faith Daniels, Margaret Larson, Ann Curry, and Linda Vester 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''.


=== NBC ===
During Couric's ''Today''  interview with presidential candidate Ross Perot on June 11, 1992, viewer phone calls were included.  She deflected his bewilderment when a phone caller slipped the following question by the program's technical crew: “Have you ever had the desire to mind-meld with Howard Stern’s penis?”


Couric kam 1989 als stellvertretende Pentagon-Korrespondentin zu ''NBC News''. Von 1989 bis 1991 war Couric Ersatzmoderatorin. Sie vertrat Bryant Gumbel als Moderator von ''Today''; Jane Pauley und Deborah Norville als Co-Moderatoren von ''Today''; Boyd Matson, Garrick Utley, Mary Alice Williams und Maria Shriver als Co-Moderatoren von Sunday ''Today''; und Connie Chung, Bob Jamieson, John Palmer, Norville, Faith Daniels, Margaret Larson und Ann Curry als Moderatoren der ehemaligen NBC News-Sendung ''NBC News at Sunrise''. Sie vertrat auch Daniels, Norville und John Palmer als Nachrichtensprecher bei ''Today''.
Couric returned to NBC to co-host the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies with Mike Tirico, and to provide additional Winter Olympic coverage and athlete interviews. During the opening ceremony she suggested, erroneously, that the Dutch use their skates as a normal mode of transportation during wintertime, prompting criticism and bemusement from the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands and others. Couric apologized that her intended compliment did not "come out" as intended, which the Embassy accepted, and invited her to the Netherlands for a tour.


Während Courics ''&quot;Today&quot;''-Interview mit dem Präsidentschaftskandidaten Ross Perot am 11. Juni 1992 wurden die Anrufe der Zuschauer mit einbezogen. Sie lenkte seine Verblüffung ab, als einem Anrufer die folgende Frage des technischen Teams der Sendung entglitt: &quot;Hatten Sie jemals das Verlangen, mit dem Penis von Howard Stern zu verschmelzen?&quot;
====''Today'' (1991–2006)====
[[File:Katie Couric hosting the 63rd Annual Peabody Awards.jpg|thumb|right|Couric hosting the 63rd Annual Peabody Awards]]In 1989, Couric joined ''Today'' as national political correspondent, becoming a substitute co-host in February 1991, when Norville went on maternity leave. Norville did not return and Couric became permanent co-anchor on April 5, 1991. 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 terminated and folded into part of ''Dateline NBC'', where her reports appeared regularly and she was named the anchor. She remained at ''Today'' and NBC News for fifteen years 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.


Couric kehrte zu NBC zurück, um gemeinsam mit Mike Tirico die Eröffnungszeremonie der Olympischen Winterspiele 2018 zu moderieren und weitere Berichte und Interviews mit Athleten zu liefern. Während der Eröffnungsfeier deutete sie fälschlicherweise an, dass die Niederländer ihre Schlittschuhe im Winter als normales Fortbewegungsmittel benutzen, was zu Kritik und Belustigung seitens der US-Botschaft in den Niederlanden und anderer führte. Couric entschuldigte sich dafür, dass ihr beabsichtigtes Kompliment nicht wie beabsichtigt &quot;rüberkam&quot;, was die Botschaft akzeptierte, und lud sie zu einer Tour durch die Niederlande ein.
While at NBC, Couric occasionally filled in for [[Tom Brokaw]] and [[Brian Williams]] on ''NBC Nightly News''. From 1989 to 1993, Couric also filled in for Connie Chung, Maria Shriver and for [[Garrick Utley]] and later [[Brian Williams]] and John Seigenthaler on the Weekend Edition of ''NBC Nightly News''. In addition, during her time on ''Today'', she served as a host of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for 14 years from 1991 to 2005. On June 17, 1997, Couric asked the ''Washington Post''’s Bob Woodward about the Clinton "Chinagate" scandal: "Are members of the media, do you think, Bob, too scandal-obsessed, looking for something at every corner?"


==== ''Heute'' (1991-2006) ====
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.


1989 kam Couric als nationale politische Korrespondentin zu ''Today'' und wurde im Februar 1991 Co-Moderatorin, als Norville in Mutterschaftsurlaub ging. Norville kehrte nicht zurück und Couric wurde am 5. April 1991 ständige Co-Moderatorin. 1994 wurde sie Co-Moderatorin von ''Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, einem'' wöchentlichen Abendnachrichtenmagazin mit Tom Brokaw, das später eingestellt und in ''Dateline NBC'' eingegliedert wurde, wo ihre Berichte regelmäßig erschienen und sie zur Moderatorin ernannt wurde. Sie blieb fünfzehn Jahre lang bei ''Today'' und NBC News, bis sie am 31. Mai 2006 bekannt gab, dass sie zu CBS geht, um die CBS-Abendnachrichten zu moderieren, und damit die erste weibliche Alleinmoderatorin der drei großen Nachrichtensendungen am Wochentag wird.
Couric has interviewed many international political figures and celebrities, including presidents Gerald 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.


Während ihrer Zeit bei NBC sprang Couric gelegentlich für Tom Brokaw und Brian Williams bei den NBC ''Nightly News ein''. Von 1989 bis 1993 sprang Couric auch für Maria Shriver und für Garrick Utley und später für Brian Williams und John Seigenthaler bei der Wochenendausgabe der ''NBC Nightly News ein''. Darüber hinaus moderierte sie während ihrer Zeit bei ''Today'' 14 Jahre lang, von 1991 bis 2005, die jährliche Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Am 17. Juni 1997 fragte Couric Bob Woodward von der ''Washington Post'' über den Clinton-Skandal &quot;Chinagate&quot;: &quot;Glauben Sie, Bob, dass die Medienmitglieder zu sehr von Skandalen besessen sind und an jeder Ecke nach etwas suchen?&quot;
Couric has won multiple television reporting awards throughout her career, including the Peabody Award for her series ''Confronting Colon Cancer''. Couric has also interviewed former British Prime Minister [[Tony Blair]], U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (her first television interview), Harry Potter author [[J.K. Rowling]], and Laura Bush.


Couric moderierte oder arbeitete an einer Reihe von Nachrichtensendungen, wie ''Everybody's Business: Amerikas Kinder'' im Jahr 1995. Ähnliche Unterhaltungsspecials waren ''Legend to Legend Night: A Celebrity Cavalcade'' im Jahr 1993 und ''Harry Potter: Behind the Magic&quot;'' im Jahr 2001. Couric war auch Co-Moderatorin der Eröffnungsfeierlichkeiten der Olympischen Spiele. Seit den Olympischen Sommerspielen 2000 hat sie gemeinsam mit Bob Costas moderiert.
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]] & [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] World News' Charles Gibson, to promote an organization called ''Stand Up to Cancer'' and raise cancer awareness on all three major television networks; [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[CBS]] & [[NBC]]. Couric, Gibson and [[Brian Williams|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 [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]'s ''Good Morning America''.


Couric hat viele internationale politische Persönlichkeiten und Prominente interviewt, darunter die Präsidenten Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton und George W. Bush sowie die First Lady Barbara Bush. John F. Kennedy Jr. gab Couric sein erstes und letztes Interview.
Couric returned for a week-long stint as co-host of Today in January 2017 to mark Matt Lauer's 20th anniversary as anchor of the program.


Couric hat im Laufe ihrer Karriere mehrere Preise für Fernsehberichte gewonnen, darunter den angesehenen Peabody Award für ihre Serie ''Confronting Colon Cancer''. Couric hat auch den ehemaligen britischen Premierminister Tony Blair, die US-Außenministerin Hillary Rodham Clinton (ihr erstes Fernsehinterview), die Harry-Potter-Autorin J.K. Rowling und Laura Bush interviewt.
===Move to CBS News===


Am 28. Mai 2008 kehrte Couric zu ''Today'' zurück, nachdem sie die Sendung fast auf den Tag genau vor zwei Jahren, am 31. Mai 2006, verlassen hatte. Sie trat zusammen mit ihren Kollegen von NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams, und ABC World News, Charles Gibson, auf, um für eine Organisation namens ''Stand Up to Cancer zu'' werben und das Bewusstsein für Krebs in allen drei großen Fernsehsendern, ABC, CBS und NBC, zu erhöhen. Couric, Gibson und Williams traten gemeinsam in allen drei großen Morgensendungen auf, zuerst in der ''Early Show'' von CBS, dann in der ''Today Show'' von NBC und schließlich in der ''Good Morning America'' von ABC.
====''CBS Evening News'' (2006–2011)====
[[File:Couric.PNG|thumb|right|Couric in 2007]]
Couric announced on April 5, 2006, that she would be leaving ''Today''. CBS confirmed later the same day that Couric would become the new anchor and managing editor of ''CBS Evening News''. Couric would also contribute to ''60 Minutes'' and anchor prime-time news specials for CBS. Couric earned US$15 million per year while at CBS, a salary that made her the highest paid journalist in the world, a salary similar to Barbara Walters' at ABC. She made her first broadcast as anchor and managing editor of the ''CBS Evening News with Katie Couric'' on September 5, 2006.


Couric kehrte im Januar 2017 für eine Woche als Co-Moderatorin von Today zurück, um Matt Lauers 20-jähriges Jubiläum als Moderator der Sendung zu feiern.
CBS heavily promoted Couric's arrival at the network, hoping to revive the evening news format, but there were suggestions{{From whom?|date=February 2024}} that it backfired. Although there was much interest during her first week as anchor, ''CBS Evening News'' remained a distant third in viewership, behind ''ABC World News'' and ''NBC Nightly News''. While Couric's ratings improved over her predecessor, Bob Schieffer, ABC's Charles Gibson widened World News' lead over Evening News.


=== Wechsel zu CBS News ===
Couric also announced CBS News's official projection for the 2008 United States Presidential Election.


==== ''CBS-Abendnachrichten'' (2006-2011) ====
The ''CBS Evening News with Katie Couric'' won the 2008 and 2009 Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast. In 2009, Couric was awarded the Emmy Governor's Award for her broadcasting career.


Couric gab am 5. April 2006 bekannt, dass sie ''Today'' verlassen würde. CBS bestätigte später am selben Tag, dass Couric die neue Moderatorin und Chefredakteurin der ''CBS Evening News'' werden würde. Couric würde auch einen Beitrag zu ''60 Minutes leisten'' und zur Hauptsendezeit Nachrichtensendungen für CBS moderieren. Couric verdiente während ihrer Zeit bei CBS 15 Millionen US-Dollar pro Jahr, ein Gehalt, das sie zur bestbezahlten Journalistin der Welt machte, ein Gehalt ähnlich dem von Barbara Walters bei ABC. Ihre erste Sendung als Moderatorin und leitende Redakteurin der ''CBS Evening News with Katie Couric'' hatte sie am 5. September 2006.
She has interviewed presidents, cabinet members, celebrities, and business executives around the world, including President Barack Obama, Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]], Former President [[George W. Bush]], Former Secretary of State [[Condoleezza Rice]], John Edwards just after the announcement that his then-wife Elizabeth's cancer had returned, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Norah Jones and Michael J. Fox.


CBS warb intensiv für Courics Ankunft beim Sender, in der Hoffnung, das Format der Abendnachrichten wiederzubeleben, aber es gab Hinweise darauf, dass dies nach hinten losging. Obwohl sie in ihrer ersten Woche als Moderatorin auf großes Interesse stieß, blieben die ''CBS-Abendnachrichten'' bei den Einschaltquoten hinter den ''ABC World News'' und den ''NBC Nightly News auf dem'' dritten Platz. Während sich die Einschaltquoten von Couric gegenüber ihrem Vorgänger Bob Schieffer verbesserten, baute Charles Gibson von ABC den Vorsprung der World News gegenüber den Evening News aus.
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. In April 2011, she led CBS News' coverage from London for the Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton.


Couric verkündete auch die offizielle Prognose von CBS News für die Präsidentschaftswahlen 2008 in den Vereinigten Staaten.
Couric was the only solo female evening news anchor in the United States, until December 21, 2009, when [[Diane Sawyer]] 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.


Die ''CBS Evening News mit Katie Couric'' wurden 2008 und 2009 mit dem Edward R. Murrow Award für die beste Nachrichtensendung ausgezeichnet. Im Jahr 2009 wurde Couric mit dem Emmy Governor's Award für ihre Karriere im Rundfunk ausgezeichnet.
In early 2011, Couric announced that she would be leaving her anchor post at ''CBS Evening News'' when her contract expired. Couric made her final broadcast in the ''CBS Evening News'' chair on Thursday, May 19, 2011.


Sie führte Interviews mit Präsidenten, Kabinettsmitgliedern, Prominenten und Geschäftsleuten aus der ganzen Welt, darunter Präsident Barack Obama, Außenministerin Hillary Clinton, der ehemalige Präsident George W. Bush, die ehemalige Außenministerin Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards kurz nach der Bekanntgabe, dass der Krebs seiner damaligen Frau Elizabeth zurückgekehrt war, die israelische Außenministerin Tzipi Livni, Norah Jones und Michael J. Fox.
====''60 Minutes'' (2006–2011)====
Couric was a ''60 Minutes'' correspondent and contributed eight to ten stories a year for the program. She was the first to interview pilot Chesley Sullenberger after the "Miracle on the Hudson" airplane landing. She also interviewed Valerie Plame, [[Robert Gates]] and [[Michelle Rhee]] for the program.


Couric leitete die Berichterstattung von CBS News über die Zwischenwahlen 2006, die Präsidentschaftswahlen und -kongresse 2008 sowie die Zwischenwahlen 2010. Nach dem Erdbeben in Haiti 2010 war Couric die erste Moderatorin des Senders vor Ort in Port au Prince. Nach der BP-Ölpest berichtete Couric wöchentlich von der Golfküste und sorgte für viel Aufmerksamkeit für die Katastrophe. Während der ägyptischen Revolution im Jahr 2011 berichtete sie vom Tahrir-Platz in Kairo. Im April 2011 leitete sie die Berichterstattung von CBS News aus London über die Hochzeit von Prinz William, Herzog von Cambridge, und Catherine Middleton.
====Palin interviews (2008)====
The Sarah Palin interviews with Katie Couric were a series of interviews Couric taped with 2008 U.S. Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The interviews were repeatedly broadcast on television before the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Couric received the Walter Cronkite Award for Journalism Excellence for the interviews. 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..."


Couric war bis zum 21. Dezember 2009 die einzige weibliche Moderatorin der Abendnachrichten in den Vereinigten Staaten, als Diane Sawyer den scheidenden Charles Gibson bei ''ABC World News ablöste''. Couric und Sawyer waren zuvor als Moderatorinnen von ''Today'' bzw. ''Good Morning America'' Konkurrentinnen.
====''CBS Reports'' (2009–2011)====
[[File:Defense.gov photo essay 110408-F-DQ383-026.jpg|thumb|Couric with U.S. Defense Secretary [[Robert Gates]] in Mosul, Iraq, April 8, 2011]]
Couric was the lead reporter for two ''CBS Reports'' series, which aired across all CBS News platforms. The first series, "CBS Reports: Children of the Recession", highlighted the pain suffered by the youngest of the then ongoing Great Recession's victims. The series won the Columbia School of Journalism's Alfred DuPont Award for Excellence in Journalism. The second series, which aired in early 2010, was "CBS Reports: Where America Stands", which featured veteran CBS News correspondents reporting on major issues facing the United States in the decade ahead with research by the CBS News Polling Unit.


Anfang 2011 kündigte Couric an, dass sie ihren Posten als Moderatorin bei den ''CBS-Abendnachrichten'' aufgeben würde, wenn ihr Vertrag ausläuft. Am Donnerstag, den 19. Mai 2011, machte Couric ihre letzte Sendung auf dem Stuhl der ''CBS-Abendnachrichten''.
====''@katiecouric'' (2009–2011)====
Couric hosted a weekly, one-hour interview program on CBSNews.com. Her first guest was [[Fox News|Fox News Channel]] host Glenn Beck. Subsequent interviews included former U.S. vice president [[Al Gore]], actor Hugh Jackman, recording artist [[Shakira]], First Lady Michelle Obama, [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']] columnist [[Thomas Friedman]], singer Justin Bieber, actress Jane Lynch, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, actor Daniel Radcliffe, [[Bill Gates]], former White House Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, national Tea Party movement leader Michael Johns, football player Drew Brees, and author Malcolm Gladwell.


==== ''60 Minuten'' (2006-2011) ====
===Return to ABC News===


Couric war Korrespondentin bei ''60 Minutes'' und schrieb acht bis zehn Beiträge pro Jahr für die Sendung. Sie war die erste, die den Piloten Chesley Sullenberger nach der Landung des Flugzeugs &quot;Miracle on the Hudson&quot; interviewte. Außerdem interviewte sie Valerie Plame, Robert Gates und Michelle Rhee für die Sendung.
====ABC News (2011–2013)====
From 2011 to 2013, Couric was a special correspondent for ABC News, a role she has incorporated into her talk show. Her first appearance on the network was a Sarah Jessica Parker interview on ''Nightline''. Couric co-anchored coverage of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, alongside [[Diane Sawyer]], Christiane Amanpour, [[Barbara Walters]], Elizabeth Vargas, [[George Stephanopoulos]], and Robin Roberts. Couric was hosting ''Today'' on ''[[NBC]]'' at the time of the attacks, and led CBS News's coverage of the fifth anniversary. Couric also guest co-hosted ''The View'' and ''Live! with Regis and Kelly''. Couric interviewed Lady Gaga in primetime on Thanksgiving as part of ''A Very Gaga Thanksgiving''. In November 2011, Couric hosted a special primetime ABC news program highlighting Regis Philbin's retirement, after Philbin's 25-year tenure at ABC.


==== Palin-Interviews (2008) ====
Similar to colleague [[Barbara Walters]], Couric anchors specials for the network and for the newsmagazine ''20/20''. While she contributes to the news program all throughout the year, in 2011, Couric created her newly annual special ''The Year with Katie Couric'', which is a program that marks the end of the year and covers some of the biggest newsmakers and news events of that year. This is a collaboration with ''People'' magazine, which also reflects events in the world of news, sports, politics, and major headlines that helped shape the world. This is very similar to that of Walters's iconic ''Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People'', a year end program that marks the end of the year and acknowledges the people that had the most impact on the year at hand with interviews on their perspective of the year. As part of the special, Couric interviews fellow members of the media that can provide some insight on some events that occurred.


Die Sarah-Palin-Interviews mit Katie Couric waren eine Reihe von Interviews, die Couric mit der republikanischen Vizepräsidentschaftskandidatin 2008, Sarah Palin, aufnahm. Die Interviews wurden vor den US-Präsidentschaftswahlen 2008 wiederholt im Fernsehen ausgestrahlt. Couric wurde für diese Interviews mit dem Walter Cronkite Award for Journalism Excellence ausgezeichnet. Steve Schmidt, McCains leitender Wahlkampfstratege und Berater, sagte später über das Interview: &quot;Ich glaube, es war das folgenreichste Interview aus einer negativen Perspektive, das ein Kandidat für ein nationales Amt durchlaufen hat...&quot;
From April 2 to 6, 2012, Couric substituted for co-anchor Robin Roberts on ABC's ''Good Morning America'', her first stint at hosting a morning news show since leaving ''Today''.


==== ''CBS-Berichte'' (2009-2011) ====
====''Katie'' (2012–2014)====
On June 6, 2011, [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] announced that Couric had signed a record US$40-million contract, and would begin hosting a daytime talk show for its Disney-ABC Domestic Television arm that would debut in September 2012; Couric would also contribute to ABC News programming. On August 22, 2011, it was announced that Couric's talk show would be called ''Katie''. ''Katie'' is the second web show that Couric has been affiliated with, the first being ''@katiecouric'' on the ''CBS Evening News''. {{Context inline|date=February 2024}} The first episode aired on September 10, 2012.


Couric war die leitende Reporterin für zwei ''CBS'' Reports-Serien, die auf allen CBS News-Plattformen ausgestrahlt wurden. Die erste Serie, &quot;CBS Reports: Children of the Recession&quot; (Kinder der Rezession), beleuchtete das Leid der jüngsten Opfer der damals noch andauernden Großen Rezession. Die Serie wurde von der Columbia School of Journalism mit dem Alfred DuPont Award for Excellence in Journalism ausgezeichnet. Die zweite Serie, die Anfang 2010 ausgestrahlt wurde, war &quot;CBS Reports: Where America Stands&quot;, in der erfahrene CBS News-Korrespondenten über die wichtigsten Themen berichten, mit denen die Vereinigten Staaten im kommenden Jahrzehnt konfrontiert sein werden, und die von der CBS News Polling Unit ausgewertet werden.
Couric has incorporated her affiliation with the ABC News Division with her ABC Daytime show by having news colleagues Christiane Amanpour, Deborah Roberts, Mike Boettcher, Matt Gutman, [[Richard E. Besser|Richard Besser]], Marci Gonzalez, Jim Avila, Dan Abrams, Josh Elliott, Brian Ross, ABC News weather anchors Sam Champion and Ginger Zee, as well as ''ABC World News'' anchors Diane Sawyer and David Muir correspond on ''Katie'' for important news events. On the domestic end of her affiliation, Couric has had as guests ''The View'' co-host Whoopi Goldberg, Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan of ''Live! with Kelly and Michael'', as well as some cast members of the soap opera ''General Hospital''.


==== ''@katiecouric'' (2009-2011) ====
Disney-ABC Domestic Television renewed ''Katie'' for a second season starting in fall 2013. However, in October 2013, ''The Hollywood Reporter'' wrote that ''Katie'' was close to cancellation because of a low Q Score, low ratings, and a reported disdain of her core female audience. The syndicated show averaged a 1.7 household rating during its first season and a 1.8 in the 2013–14 season. In December 2013, Disney–ABC Domestic Television announced that ''Katie'' had been canceled. The last show was taped on June 12, 2014 and the series finale aired on July 30, 2014.


Couric moderierte eine wöchentliche, einstündige Interview-Sendung auf CBSNews.com. Ihr erster Gast war der Moderator des Fox News Channel, Glenn Beck. Danach interviewte sie unter anderem den ehemaligen Vizepräsidenten Al Gore, den Schauspieler Hugh Jackman, die Sängerin Shakira, die First Lady Michelle Obama, den Kolumnisten der New York Times Thomas Friedman, den Sänger Justin Bieber, die Schauspielerin Jane Lynch, die Talkshow-Moderatorin Ellen DeGeneres, den Schauspieler Daniel Radcliffe, Bill Gates, den ehemaligen Stabschef des Weißen Hauses Rahm Emanuel, den Anführer der nationalen Tea-Party-Bewegung Michael Johns, den Footballspieler Drew Brees und den Autor Malcolm Gladwell.
===Yahoo! / ABC News (2014–2017)===
In November 2013, Yahoo! CEO [[Marissa Mayer]] announced she had hired Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo! News. Couric debuted in the new role on January 13, 2014, in an interview with former United States Secretary of Defense [[Robert Gates]]. She later interviewed United States Secretary of State [[John Kerry]].
In March 2015, in an effort to collaborate and to consolidate their news pools, Yahoo News and ABC News has expanded their partnership to include specials and features, with Couric and other Yahoo editors to appear in daily segments on ''Good Morning America''. The extended partnership secured Couric as having a spot in the ABC News division, as a special contributor.


=== Zurück zu ABC News ===
In her book ''Going There'', Couric admitted to editing a 2016 interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The edits included removing portions of Ginsburg's statements that were critical of NFL protestors kneeling during the national anthem. Couric stated that her intent was to "protect" Ginsburg from her potentially unpopular comments as they were "unworthy of a crusader for equality".


==== ABC-Nachrichten (2011-2013) ====
In June 2017, after Verizon purchased Yahoo! and combined it into Oath, Couric decided to end her contract at Yahoo! News, preferring to work with them on a "project basis" only, while she continues to expand her own production company.


Von 2011 bis 2013 war Couric Sonderkorrespondentin für ABC News, eine Rolle, die sie in ihre Talkshow übernommen hat. Ihr erster Auftritt für den Sender war ein Interview mit Sarah Jessica Parker in ''Nightline''. Couric war Co-Moderatorin der Berichterstattung über den zehnten Jahrestag der Anschläge vom 11. September, neben Diane Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour, Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Vargas, George Stephanopoulos und Robin Roberts. Couric moderierte zum Zeitpunkt der Anschläge die Sendung ''Today'' auf ''NBC'' und leitete die Berichterstattung von CBS News über den fünften Jahrestag. Couric war außerdem Gastmoderatorin bei ''The View'' und ''Live! with Regis and Kelly''. Couric interviewte Lady Gaga zur Hauptsendezeit an Thanksgiving als Teil von ''A Very Gaga Thanksgiving''. Im November 2011 moderierte Couric eine spezielle ABC-Nachrichtensendung zur Hauptsendezeit, in der sie den Rücktritt von Regis Philbin nach dessen 25-jähriger Zugehörigkeit zu ABC hervorhob.
===Public image===
Couric has been dubbed "America's Sweetheart," largely due to her co-anchor role for 15 years on ''The Today Show''. 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'' or his short-lived ''The Jay Leno Show''. Leno filled in for her on ''Today'' that same day. [[CNN]] and the New York ''Daily News'' noted that instead of using 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".


Ähnlich wie ihre Kollegin Barbara Walters moderiert Couric Sondersendungen für den Sender und für das Nachrichtenmagazin ''20/20''. Während sie das ganze Jahr über Beiträge für die Nachrichtensendung liefert, schuf Couric 2011 ihr neues jährliches Special ''The Year with Katie Couric'', eine Sendung, die das Ende des Jahres markiert und einige der größten Nachrichtenmacher und -ereignisse des Jahres abdeckt. Es handelt sich um eine Zusammenarbeit mit dem People-Magazin, das ebenfalls Ereignisse aus der Welt der Nachrichten, des Sports, der Politik und der großen Schlagzeilen, die die Welt geprägt haben, widerspiegelt. Die Sendung ähnelt der kultigen ''Barbara-Walters-Sendung &quot;10 Most Fascinating People&quot;'', in der zum Jahresende die Menschen gewürdigt werden, die das vergangene Jahr am stärksten beeinflusst haben, indem sie aus ihrer Sicht befragt werden. Im Rahmen der Sendung befragt Couric auch Medienkollegen, die einen Einblick in einige Ereignisse des Jahres geben können.
===Other work===
In a media crossover to animated film, Couric was the voice of news-reporter "Katie Current" in the US version of the film ''Shark Tale''. She has also made cameo appearances in ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' (as a Georgia State Prison guard) and an episode of ''General Hospital'' (as a journalist pretending to be a doctor: a storyline she helped create). She guest-starred as herself on the CBS sitcom ''Murphy Brown'' in 1992 and in the NBC sitcom ''Will & Grace'' in late 2002, and made a cameo appearance on a ''Pawn Stars'' episode. 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. She received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 2005. Couric delivered the graduation speech at her alma mater University of Virginia on May 20, 2012, at Randolph-Macon College on June 1, 2013, and at [[Princeton University]] on June 1, 2009. She also works with Carmen Marc Valvo to help publicize the deadliness, yet preventability, of colorectal cancer. On May 16, 2010, 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. In 2016, she starred as herself in ''Sully'' to recreate the ''60 Minutes'' interview for the film.


Vom 2. bis 6. April 2012 vertrat Couric die Co-Moderatorin Robin Roberts bei der ABC-Sendung ''Good Morning America'' und moderierte damit zum ersten Mal seit ihrem Ausscheiden bei ''Today'' eine Morgensendung.
In 2011, she gave the university commencement speech at Boston University and was awarded another doctoral degree, Doctor of Humane Letters. She has also 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. Sylvester sarcastically referred to Couric as "Diane Sawyer" during the segment.


==== ''Katie'' (2012-2014) ====
Couric is the author of two children's books and a non-fiction collection of essays. Her children's books ''The Brand New Kid'' (2000) and ''The Blue Ribbon Day'' (2004) were illustrated by Marjorie Priceman and published by Doubleday. ''The Brand New Kid'' topped the ''New York Times'' best seller list for children's picture books, and was adapted into a 2006 musical by Melanie Marnich and Michael Friedman. Couric's third book, ''The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives'', was published by Random House in 2011. The book is a collection of essays compiled over the past year by Couric; contributors include New York City Mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]], [[Queen Rania of Jordan]], and former ''Today Show'' colleague Matt Lauer. Couric said that a 2010 convocation keynote address she gave inspired her to write the book. To this end, all profits of the book will be donated to Scholarship America.


Am 6. Juni 2011 gab ABC bekannt, dass Couric einen 40-Millionen-Dollar-Rekordvertrag unterzeichnet hat und ab September 2012 eine Talkshow für den Disney-ABC-Fernsehsender moderieren wird. Am 22. August 2011 wurde bekannt gegeben, dass Courics Talkshow den Namen ''Katie'' tragen würde. ''Katie'' ist die zweite Webshow, an der Couric beteiligt ist; die erste war ''@katiecouric'' bei den ''CBS Evening News''. Die erste Folge wurde am 10. September 2012 ausgestrahlt.
In December 2013, Couric ran a segment on the HPV vaccine which critics accused of being too sympathetic to the scientifically unsupported claims that this vaccine was dangerous. For example, Seth Mnookin accused her broadcast of employing false balance. In addition, Alexandra Sifferlin, of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine, compared Couric to Jenny McCarthy, a well-known anti-vaccine celebrity. On December 10, 2013, a week after the original segment was aired, Couric posted an article on ''The Huffington Post'' responding to this criticism, in which she stated:


Couric hat ihre Zugehörigkeit zur ABC News Division in ihre ABC Daytime Show integriert, indem sie Nachrichtenkollegen wie Christiane Amanpour, Deborah Roberts, Mike Boettcher, Matt Gutman, Richard Besser, Marci Gonzalez, Jim Avila, Dan Abrams, Josh Elliott, Brian Ross, die ABC News Wettermoderatoren Sam Champion und Ginger Zee sowie die ''ABC World News'' Moderatoren Diane Sawyer und David Muir als Korrespondenten für ''Katie'' bei wichtigen Nachrichtenereignissen eingeladen hat. Im Inland hatte Couric als Gäste die ''The'' View-Ko-Moderatorin Whoopi Goldberg, Kelly Ripa und Michael Strahan von ''Live! with Kelly and Michael sowie'' einige Darsteller der Seifenoper ''General Hospital''.
{{blockquote|I felt it was a subject well worth exploring. Following the show, and in fact before it even aired, there was criticism that the program was too anti-vaccine and anti-science, and in retrospect, some of that criticism was valid. We simply spent too much time on the serious adverse events that have been reported in very rare cases following the vaccine. More emphasis should have been given to the safety and efficacy of the HPV vaccines.}}


Disney-ABC Domestic Television verlängerte ''Katie'' für eine zweite Staffel, die im Herbst 2013 beginnen sollte. Im Oktober 2013 schrieb ''The Hollywood Reporter'' jedoch, dass ''Katie'' aufgrund eines niedrigen Q-Scores, niedriger Einschaltquoten und einer angeblichen Verachtung ihres weiblichen Stammpublikums kurz vor der Absetzung stand. Die syndizierte Sendung erreichte in ihrer ersten Staffel eine durchschnittliche Einschaltquote von 1,7 und in der Saison 2013/14 von 1,8. Im Dezember 2013 gab Disney-ABC Domestic Television bekannt, dass ''Katie'' abgesetzt wurde. Die Produktion sollte bis Juni 2014 fortgesetzt werden.
Throughout the 2010s, Couric served as executive producer on several films. In 2014, Couric was an executive producer and narrator for the documentary ''Fed Up'', examining the food industry and obesity in the United States. In 2016, Couric was an executive producer and narrator for the documentary ''Under the Gun'', examining gun violence and gun control in the United States. The documentary was criticized for having an eight-second pause for "dramatic effect" inserted instead of the answer given to a question Couric posed to a gun-rights group in Virginia. Couric posted a response on the documentary's website stating, "I take responsibility for a decision that misrepresented an exchange I had with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL)", and she included a transcript of the response she received. Later that year, the VCDL filed a defamation lawsuit for $12 million against Couric and the film's director, Stephanie Soechtig, for continuing to promote and distribute the film without correcting the pause. The lawsuit was dismissed after a Virginia judge determined that the film scene was neither false nor defamatory. In 2015 Couric founded Katie Couric Media, a film production company which has partnered with National Geographic to produce several documentaries. The first of these, ''Gender Revolution'', premiered in 2017. She was also an executive producer of ''Flint'', a 2017 Lifetime drama about the Flint, Michigan, water crisis. In 2018, Couric hosted a docudrama series titled ''America Inside Out with Katie Couric'', which was telecast on the National Geographic Channel.


=== Yahoo! / ABC News (2014-2017) ===
Couric is a member of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]]. She is also a member of
the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.


Im November 2013 gab Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer bekannt, dass sie Couric als Global Anchor von Yahoo! News eingestellt hat. Couric debütierte in ihrer neuen Rolle am 13. Januar 2014 in einem Interview mit dem ehemaligen US-Verteidigungsminister Robert Gates. Später interviewte sie den Außenminister der Vereinigten Staaten John Kerry. Im März 2015 erweiterten Yahoo News und ABC News ihre Partnerschaft, um zusammenzuarbeiten und ihre Nachrichtenpools zu konsolidieren, und boten Couric und anderen Yahoo-Redakteuren die Möglichkeit, in täglichen Beiträgen auf ''Good Morning America'' aufzutreten, um Sondersendungen und Features zu produzieren. Die erweiterte Partnerschaft sicherte Couric einen Platz in der ABC News-Abteilung, als spezielle Mitarbeiterin.
In 2019, she served as executive producer on Netflix's true crime miniseries ''Unbelievable''.


In ihrem Buch ''Going There'' gab Couric zu, 2016 ein Interview mit Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Richterin am Obersten Gerichtshof, bearbeitet zu haben. Dabei wurden unter anderem Teile von Ginsburgs Äußerungen entfernt, die sich kritisch über die NFL-Protestler äußerten, die während der Nationalhymne knieten. Couric erklärte, sie habe Ginsburg vor ihren potenziell unpopulären Äußerungen &quot;schützen&quot; wollen, da diese &quot;einer Vorkämpferin für Gleichberechtigung unwürdig&quot; seien.
Couric signed on to serve as a substitute host of ''Jeopardy!'' in January 2021 following the death of Alex Trebek. Her episodes aired from March 8 to March 19.


Im Juni 2017, nachdem Verizon Yahoo! aufgekauft und in Oath zusammengeführt hatte, beschloss Couric, ihren Vertrag mit Yahoo! News zu beenden, und zog es vor, nur noch auf &quot;Projektbasis&quot; mit ihnen zusammenzuarbeiten, während sie ihre eigene Produktionsfirma weiter ausbaut.
==Personal life and charitable work==
===Family and relationships===
Couric married attorney John Paul "Jay" Monahan III in 1989. in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 1991; their second daughter, Caroline "Carrie" was born in New York City on January 5, 1996. Her husband died of colorectal cancer in 1998 at the age of 42. In September 2013, she became engaged to financier John Molner after a two-year relationship. Couric married Molner in a small, private ceremony at her home in The Hamptons on June 21, 2014. The two star in the online cooking series ''Full Plate with Katie & John'', appearing on the Sur La Table website.


=== Öffentliches Bild ===
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 Batchelor and John M. Couric Jr.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}


Couric wurde &quot;America's Sweetheart&quot; genannt, vor allem wegen ihrer 15-jährigen Co-Moderatorenrolle bei der ''Today Show''. Am 12. Mai 2003 war Couric im Rahmen einer Tauschkampagne Gastmoderatorin in ''der Tonight Show mit Jay Leno'' und hatte 45 Prozent mehr Zuschauer als an anderen Abenden. Sie war die einzige Gastmoderatorin, die von Jay Leno entweder in der ''Tonight Show'' oder in seiner kurzlebigen ''The Jay Leno Show'' eingesetzt wurde. Leno vertrat sie am selben Tag bei ''Today''. CNN und die New York ''Daily News'' berichteten, dass anstelle von Lenos normalem Schreibtisch die Vorderseite ihres Tisches weggeschnitten wurde, um ihre Beine freizulegen, während sie den ''American'' Idol-Juror Simon Cowell und den ''Austin'' Powers-Star Mike Myers interviewte&quot;.
During a January 15, 2021 appearance on ''Real Time with Bill Maher'', Couric revealed that she is distantly related to William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States.


=== Andere Arbeiten ===
===Cancer and advocacy===
On September 28, 2022, Couric revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer on June 21 of that year after a routine screening. She underwent surgery for the disease in July and began radiation treatment on September 7.


In einem Medien-Crossover zum Zeichentrickfilm war Couric die Stimme der Nachrichtenreporterin &quot;Katie Current&quot; in der US-Version des Films ''Shark Tale''. Außerdem hatte sie Cameo-Auftritte in ''Austin Powers in Goldmember'' (als Wärterin im Staatsgefängnis von Georgia) und in einer Folge von ''General Hospital'' (als Journalistin, die sich als Ärztin ausgibt: ein Handlungsstrang, den sie mit entwickelt hat). 1992 hatte sie eine Gastrolle in der CBS-Sitcom ''Murphy Brown'' und Ende 2002 in der NBC-Sitcom ''Will &amp; Grace'' und hatte einen Cameo-Auftritt in einer Folge von ''Pawn Stars''. Am 12. Mai 2003 tauschte sie für einen Tag den Platz mit dem Moderator der ''Tonight Show,'' Jay Leno. Couric war außerdem von 1991 bis 2005 Co-Moderatorin der Live-Übertragung der Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade auf NBC. Im Jahr 2005 wurde sie mit dem Golden Plate Award der American Academy of Achievement ausgezeichnet. Couric hielt die Abschlussrede an ihrer Alma Mater, der University of Virginia, am 20. Mai 2012, am Randolph-Macon College am 1. Juni 2013 und an der Princeton University am 1. Juni 2009. Außerdem arbeitet sie mit Carmen Marc Valvo zusammen, um auf die tödliche, aber vermeidbare Gefahr von Darmkrebs aufmerksam zu machen. Am 16. Mai 2010 erhielt Couric von der Case Western Reserve University die Ehrendoktorwürde für ihre Bemühungen, das Bewusstsein für Darmkrebs zu schärfen, und für ihr Engagement, die medizinische Forschung voranzutreiben, und hielt später die Eröffnungsrede der Universität 2010. Im Jahr 2016 spielte sie die Hauptrolle in Sully, um das 60-Minuten-Interview für den Film nachzustellen.
Couric had become a spokeswoman for colon cancer awareness ever since her first husband had died from the disease. She underwent a colonoscopy on-air in March 2000, and, according to a study published in 2003 in ''Archives of Internal Medicine'', may have 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 two different data sets. This illustrates the possibility that a well-known individual can draw attention and support to worthwhile causes." On October 7, 2005, as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Couric broadcast her own mammogram on the ''Today'' show, in the hopes of recreating the "Couric Effect" around the issue of breast cancer. 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.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}


Im Jahr 2011 hielt sie die Eröffnungsrede an der Boston University und erhielt einen weiteren Doktortitel, den Doctor of Humane Letters. Sie war auch Gastgeberin der Sesamstraßen-Sendung &quot;Wenn Familien trauern&quot;. Das Special, das am 14. April 2010 auf PBS ausgestrahlt wurde, befasste sich mit den Problemen, die Kinder durchmachen, wenn ein Elternteil stirbt. Am 6. Februar 2011 hatte Couric einen Gastauftritt in der Nach-Super-Bowl-Folge von ''Glee'', in der sie sich selbst spielte, als sie Sue Sylvester interviewte, nachdem das Cheerleader-Team die Meisterschaft verloren hatte. Sylvester bezeichnete Couric in dem Beitrag sarkastisch als &quot;Diane Sawyer&quot;.
Couric was the honored guest at the 2004 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation fall gala. 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. In 2011, Couric became the Honorary National Chair of the National Parkinson Foundation's Moving Day campaign, a grassroots campaign to spotlight Parkinson's disease awareness on a national level. Couric's father died in 2011 at age 90 from complications due to Parkinson's disease.


Couric ist die Autorin von zwei Kinderbüchern und einer Sachbuchsammlung mit Essays. Ihre Kinderbücher ''The Brand New Kid'' (2000) und ''The Blue Ribbon Day'' (2004) wurden von Marjorie Priceman illustriert und von Doubleday veröffentlicht. ''The Brand New Kid&quot;'' stand an der Spitze der New York Times-Bestsellerliste für Kinderbilderbücher und wurde 2006 von Melanie Marnich und Michael Friedman als Musical verfilmt. Courics drittes Buch, ''The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives (Lektionen aus außergewöhnlichen Leben''), wurde 2011 von Random House veröffentlicht. Das Buch ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die Couric im Laufe des vergangenen Jahres zusammengestellt hat; zu den Autoren gehören der Bürgermeister von New York City, Michael Bloomberg, Königin Rania von Jordanien und der ehemalige Today-Show-Kollege Matt Lauer. Couric sagte, dass eine Grundsatzrede, die sie 2010 bei einer Einberufung hielt, sie zu diesem Buch inspirierte. Zu diesem Zweck werden alle Gewinne des Buches an Scholarship America gespendet.
==Bibliography==
*{{cite book|last1=Couric|first1=Katie|title=The Brand New Kid|date=2000|publisher=Doubleday|location=New York|isbn=978-0385500302}}
*{{cite book|last1=Couric|first1=Katie|title=The Blue Ribbon Day|date=2004|publisher=Doubleday|location=New York|isbn=978-0385512923|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/blueribbonday00cour}}
*{{cite book|last1=Couric|first1=Katie|title=The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives|date=2011|publisher=Random House|location=New York|isbn=978-0812992779}}
*{{cite book|last1=Couric|first1=Katie|title=Going There|date=2021|publisher=Little, Brown and Company|location=New York|isbn=978-0316535861}}


Im Dezember 2013 strahlte Couric einen Beitrag über den HPV-Impfstoff aus, dem Kritiker vorwarfen, den wissenschaftlich nicht untermauerten Behauptungen, dieser Impfstoff sei gefährlich, zu viel Sympathie entgegenzubringen. Seth Mnookin warf ihr beispielsweise vor, ihre Sendung sei unausgewogen. Außerdem verglich Alexandra Sifferlin vom ''Time'' Magazine Couric mit Jenny McCarthy, einer bekannten Anti-Impf-Prominenten. Am 10. Dezember 2013, eine Woche nach der Ausstrahlung des ursprünglichen Beitrags, veröffentlichte Couric einen Artikel in der ''Huffington Post'', in dem sie auf diese Kritik antwortete:
==See also==
* New Yorkers in journalism


<blockquote>Ich hielt es für ein Thema, das es wert war, erforscht zu werden. Nach der Sendung, und eigentlich schon vor der Ausstrahlung, gab es Kritik, dass die Sendung zu impf- und wissenschaftsfeindlich sei, und im Nachhinein betrachtet war ein Teil dieser Kritik berechtigt. Wir haben einfach zu viel Zeit auf die schwerwiegenden unerwünschten Ereignisse verwendet, die in sehr seltenen Fällen nach der Impfung aufgetreten sind. Die Sicherheit und Wirksamkeit der HPV-Impfstoffe hätte stärker in den Vordergrund gerückt werden müssen.
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==Sources==
*{{Citation |last=Klein |first=Edward |title=Katie: The Real Story |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r16sg3luQpkC |place=New York |publisher=Crown |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-307-35351-1}}
* Weller, Sheila (2015). ''The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour—and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News''.
* NBC News April 26, 2011


In den 2010er Jahren war Couric als ausführende Produzentin an mehreren Filmen beteiligt. Im Jahr 2014 war Couric ausführende Produzentin und Sprecherin des Dokumentarfilms ''Fed Up'', der sich mit der Lebensmittelindustrie und Fettleibigkeit in den Vereinigten Staaten befasst. Im Jahr 2016 war Couric ausführende Produzentin und Sprecherin des Dokumentarfilms ''Under the Gun'', der sich mit Waffengewalt und Waffenkontrolle in den Vereinigten Staaten beschäftigt. Der Dokumentarfilm wurde kritisiert, weil anstelle der Antwort auf eine Frage, die Couric einer Gruppe von Waffenrechtlern in Virginia gestellt hatte, eine achtsekündige Pause für einen &quot;dramatischen Effekt&quot; eingefügt wurde. Couric antwortete daraufhin auf der Website des Dokumentarfilms mit den Worten: &quot;Ich übernehme die Verantwortung für eine Entscheidung, die einen Austausch, den ich mit Mitgliedern der Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) hatte, falsch wiedergegeben hat&quot;, und fügte eine Abschrift der Antwort bei, die sie erhielt. Später im selben Jahr reichte die VCDL eine Verleumdungsklage in Höhe von 12 Millionen Dollar gegen Couric und die Regisseurin des Films, Stephanie Soechtig, ein, weil sie den Film weiterhin beworben und vertrieben hatte, ohne den Fehler zu korrigieren. Die Klage wurde abgewiesen, nachdem ein Richter in Virginia festgestellt hatte, dass die Filmszene weder falsch noch verleumderisch war. 2015 gründete Couric Katie Couric Media, eine Filmproduktionsfirma, die in Zusammenarbeit mit National Geographic mehrere Dokumentarfilme produziert hat. Der erste dieser Filme, ''Gender Revolution'', wurde 2017 uraufgeführt. Sie war auch ausführende Produzentin von ''Flint'', einem Lifetime-Drama aus dem Jahr 2017 über die Wasserkrise in Flint, Michigan. Im Jahr 2018 moderierte Couric eine Doku-Drama-Serie mit dem Titel ''America Inside Out with Katie Couric'', die auf dem National Geographic Channel ausgestrahlt wurde.
==External links==
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Couric ist Mitglied des Council on Foreign Relations. Sie ist auch Mitglied des Verwaltungsrats der Peabody Awards, die vom Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication der University of Georgia verliehen werden.
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2019 war sie als ausführende Produzentin an der Netflix-Miniserie &quot;Unbelievable&quot; über wahre Verbrechen beteiligt.


Couric wurde im Januar 2021 nach dem Tod von Alex Trebek als Ersatzmoderatorin von ''Jeopardy!'' verpflichtet. Ihre Episoden wurden vom 8. bis 19. März ausgestrahlt.
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== Persönliches Leben und Wohltätigkeitsarbeit ==


=== Familie und Beziehungen ===
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Couric heiratete 1989 den Rechtsanwalt John Paul &quot;Jay&quot; Monahan III. Am 23. Juli 1991 brachte sie in Washington, D.C., ihre erste Tochter Elinor Tully &quot;Ellie&quot; Monahan zur Welt; ihre zweite Tochter Caroline &quot;Carrie&quot; wurde am 5. Januar 1996 in New York City geboren. Ihr Ehemann starb 1998 im Alter von 42 Jahren an Darmkrebs. Im September 2013 verlobte sie sich nach einer zweijährigen Beziehung mit dem Finanzier John Molner. Couric heiratete Molner in einer kleinen, privaten Zeremonie in ihrem Haus in den Hamptons am 21. Juni 2014. Die beiden spielen die Hauptrolle in der Online-Kochserie ''Full Plate with Katie &amp; John'', die auf der Website von Sur La Table erscheint.
 
Ihre Schwester Emily Couric, eine demokratische Senatorin des Staates Virginia, starb am 18. Oktober 2001 im Alter von 54 Jahren an Bauchspeicheldrüsenkrebs. Couric hielt bei der Beerdigung eine Trauerrede. Sie wies darauf hin, dass es Emily irritierte, wenn Leute sie fragten, ob sie die Schwester von Katie Couric sei. Sie sagte den Trauernden: &quot;Ich möchte nur, dass ihr wisst, dass ich immer stolz darauf sein werde, sagen zu können: 'Ich bin die Schwester von Emily Couric'.&quot; Couric hat zwei weitere Geschwister, Clara Couric Batchelor und John M. Couric Jr.
 
Während ihres Auftritts bei ''Real Time with Bill Maher am'' 15. Januar 2021 verriet Couric, dass sie mit William Henry Harrison, dem neunten Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten, entfernt verwandt ist.
 
=== Krebs und Anwaltschaft ===
 
Am 28. September 2022 gab Couric bekannt, dass bei ihr am 21. Juni desselben Jahres bei einer Routineuntersuchung Brustkrebs diagnostiziert worden war. Im Juli wurde sie wegen der Krankheit operiert und begann am 7. September mit einer Strahlenbehandlung.
 
Couric war zu einer Sprecherin für Darmkrebs geworden, seit ihr erster Ehemann an der Krankheit gestorben war. Im März 2000 unterzog sie sich im Fernsehen einer Darmspiegelung, und laut einer 2003 in ''Archives of Internal Medicine'' veröffentlichten Studie hat sie möglicherweise viele andere dazu inspiriert, sich ebenfalls untersuchen zu lassen: &quot;Katie Courics im Fernsehen ausgestrahlte Aufklärungskampagne über Darmkrebs wurde in zwei verschiedenen Datensätzen vorübergehend mit einem Anstieg der Inanspruchnahme von Darmspiegelungen in Verbindung gebracht. Dies veranschaulicht die Möglichkeit, dass eine bekannte Person Aufmerksamkeit und Unterstützung für lohnenswerte Anliegen erregen kann.&quot; Am 7. Oktober 2005 strahlte Couric im Rahmen des National Breast Cancer Awareness Month ihre eigene Mammographie in der Today-Show aus, in der Hoffnung, den &quot;Couric-Effekt&quot; rund um das Thema Brustkrebs zu erzeugen. Sie war auch sehr aktiv in der Kampagne &quot;Hockey Fights Cancer&quot; der Nationalen Eishockeyliga, in der sie in einigen Werbespots auftrat und für mehrere andere als Sprecherin fungierte.
 
Couric war der Ehrengast der Herbstgala 2004 der Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Als Ehrengast des Eröffnungsballs der American Cancer Society wurde Couric für ihre führende Rolle bei der Förderung des Bewusstseins für Krebs und der Krebsvorsorge ausgezeichnet. Im Jahr 2011 wurde Couric Ehrenvorsitzende der Moving-Day-Kampagne der National Parkinson Foundation, einer Basis-Kampagne, die das Bewusstsein für die Parkinson-Krankheit auf nationaler Ebene schärfen soll. Courics Vater starb 2011 im Alter von 90 Jahren an den Komplikationen der Parkinson-Krankheit.
 
== Quellen ==
 
Klein, Edward (2007), Katie: Die wahre Geschichte, New York: Crown, ISBN 978-0-307-35351-1
 
Weller, Sheila (2015). ''The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour - und der (andauernde, unvollkommene, komplizierte) Siegeszug der Frauen in den TV-Nachrichten''.
 
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Katie Couric
Couric in 2012
Geboren
Katherine Anne Couric

(1957-01-07) January 7, 1957 (age 68)
Arlington, Virginia, U.S.
EducationUniversity of Virginia (BA)
Occupation(s)Journalist, presenter, author
Years active1979–present
Notable credit(s)Today
CBS Evening News
60 Minutes
Katie
Yahoo! News
Spouses
Jay Monahan
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(m. 1989; died 1998)​
John Molner
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(m. 2014)​
Children2
RelativesEmily Couric (sister)
Jeff Wadlow (nephew)
AwardsTelevision Hall of Fame (2004)
Websitekatiecouric.com

Katherine Anne Couric ( ; born January 7, 1957) is an American journalist and presenter. She is founder of Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company. She also publishes a daily newsletter, Wake Up Call. From 2013 to 2017, she was Yahoo's Global News Anchor. Couric has been a television host at all of the Big Three television networks in the United States, and in her early career she was an assignment editor for CNN. She worked for NBC News from 1989 to 2006, CBS News from 2006 to 2011, and ABC News from 2011 to 2014. In 2021, she appeared as a guest host for the game show Jeopardy!, the first woman to host the flagship American version of the show in its history.

In addition to her roles in television news, Couric hosted Katie, a syndicated daytime talk show produced by Disney–ABC Domestic Television from September 2012 to June 2014. Some of her most important presenting roles include co-host of Today, anchor of the CBS Evening News, and as a correspondent for 60 Minutes. Couric's 2011 book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, was a New York Times bestseller. In 2004, Couric was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.

Early life and career

Katherine Anne 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, and converted to Presbyterianism before the marriage. Couric's maternal grandparents, Bert Hene and Clara L. Frohsin, were the children of Jewish emigrants from Germany. Couric's father had French, English, Scottish, and German ancestry. She was raised Presbyterian. In a report for Today, she traced her patrilineal ancestry back to a French orphan who immigrated to the U.S. in the 19th century, and became a broker in the cotton business.

Couric attended Arlington Public Schools: Jamestown Elementary, Williamsburg Middle School, and Yorktown High School, and was a cheerleader. 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, the University of Virginia, in 1975, and was a Delta Delta Delta sorority sister. Couric served in several positions at UVA's daily newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. During her fourth year at UVA, Couric was chosen to live as Senior Resident of The Lawn, the heart of Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village. She graduated in 1979, with a bachelor's degree in American Studies.

Television career

Career beginnings

Couric's first job in 1979 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 the then-CBS affiliate 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. She filled in for Bryant Gumbel as host of Today; Jane Pauley and Deborah Norville as co-anchor of Today; Boyd Matson, Garrick Utley, Mary Alice Williams, and Maria Shriver as co-host of Sunday Today; Chris Wallace, Garrick Utley and Tim Russert as anchor of Meet The Press, Scott Simon, Mike Schneider (news anchor) , Jack Ford, Jackie Nespral, Giselle Fernandez and Jodi Applegate as co-host of "Weekend Today; Connie Chung, Bob Jamieson, John Palmer, Norville, Faith Daniels, Margaret Larson, Ann Curry, and Linda Vester 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.

During Couric's Today interview with presidential candidate Ross Perot on June 11, 1992, viewer phone calls were included. She deflected his bewilderment when a phone caller slipped the following question by the program's technical crew: “Have you ever had the desire to mind-meld with Howard Stern’s penis?”

Couric returned to NBC to co-host the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremonies with Mike Tirico, and to provide additional Winter Olympic coverage and athlete interviews. During the opening ceremony she suggested, erroneously, that the Dutch use their skates as a normal mode of transportation during wintertime, prompting criticism and bemusement from the U.S. Embassy in the Netherlands and others. Couric apologized that her intended compliment did not "come out" as intended, which the Embassy accepted, and invited her to the Netherlands for a tour.

Today (1991–2006)

Couric hosting the 63rd Annual Peabody Awards

In 1989, Couric joined Today as national political correspondent, becoming a substitute co-host in February 1991, when Norville went on maternity leave. Norville did not return and Couric became permanent co-anchor on April 5, 1991. 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 terminated and folded into part of Dateline NBC, where her reports appeared regularly and she was named the anchor. She remained at Today and NBC News for fifteen years 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.

While at NBC, Couric occasionally filled in for Tom Brokaw and Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News. From 1989 to 1993, Couric also filled in for Connie Chung, Maria Shriver and for Garrick Utley and later Brian Williams and John Seigenthaler on the Weekend Edition of NBC Nightly News. In addition, during her time on Today, she served as a host of the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for 14 years from 1991 to 2005. On June 17, 1997, Couric asked the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward about the Clinton "Chinagate" scandal: "Are members of the media, do you think, Bob, too scandal-obsessed, looking for something at every corner?"

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.

Couric has interviewed many international political figures and celebrities, including presidents Gerald 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 throughout her career, including the Peabody Award for her series Confronting Colon Cancer. Couric has also interviewed former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (her first television interview), Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, and Laura Bush.

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.

Couric returned for a week-long stint as co-host of Today in January 2017 to mark Matt Lauer's 20th anniversary as anchor of the program.

Move to CBS News

CBS Evening News (2006–2011)

Couric in 2007

Couric announced on April 5, 2006, that she would be leaving Today. CBS confirmed later the same day that Couric would become the new anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News. Couric would also contribute to 60 Minutes and anchor prime-time news specials for CBS. Couric earned US$15 million per year while at CBS, a salary that made her the highest paid journalist in the world, a salary similar to Barbara Walters' at ABC. She made her first broadcast as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric on September 5, 2006.

CBS heavily promoted Couric's arrival at the network, hoping to revive the evening news format, but there were suggestions[from whom?] that it backfired. Although there was much interest during her first week as anchor, CBS Evening News remained a distant third in viewership, behind ABC World News and NBC Nightly News. While Couric's ratings improved over her predecessor, Bob Schieffer, ABC's Charles Gibson widened World News' lead over Evening News.

Couric also announced CBS News's official projection for the 2008 United States Presidential Election.

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

She has interviewed presidents, cabinet members, celebrities, and business executives around the world, including President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Former President George W. Bush, Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, John Edwards just after the announcement that his then-wife Elizabeth's cancer had returned, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Norah Jones and Michael J. Fox.

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. In April 2011, she led CBS News' coverage from London for the Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton.

Couric was the only solo female evening news anchor in the United States, until December 21, 2009, when Diane Sawyer 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.

In early 2011, Couric announced that she would be leaving her anchor post at CBS Evening News when her contract expired. Couric made her final broadcast in the CBS Evening News chair on Thursday, May 19, 2011.

60 Minutes (2006–2011)

Couric was a 60 Minutes correspondent and contributed eight to ten stories a year for the program. She was the first to interview pilot Chesley Sullenberger after the "Miracle on the Hudson" airplane landing. She also interviewed Valerie Plame, Robert Gates and Michelle Rhee for the program.

Palin interviews (2008)

The Sarah Palin interviews with Katie Couric were a series of interviews Couric taped with 2008 U.S. Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The interviews were repeatedly broadcast on television before the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Couric received the Walter Cronkite Award for Journalism Excellence for the interviews. 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..."

CBS Reports (2009–2011)

Couric with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Mosul, Iraq, April 8, 2011

Couric was the lead reporter for two CBS Reports series, which aired across all CBS News platforms. The first series, "CBS Reports: Children of the Recession", highlighted the pain suffered by the youngest of the then ongoing Great Recession's victims. The series won the Columbia School of Journalism's Alfred DuPont Award for Excellence in Journalism. The second series, which aired in early 2010, was "CBS Reports: Where America Stands", which featured veteran CBS News correspondents reporting on major issues facing the United States in the decade ahead with research by the CBS News Polling Unit.

@katiecouric (2009–2011)

Couric hosted a weekly, one-hour interview program on CBSNews.com. Her first guest was Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck. Subsequent interviews included former U.S. vice president Al Gore, actor Hugh Jackman, recording artist Shakira, First Lady Michelle Obama, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, singer Justin Bieber, actress Jane Lynch, talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, actor Daniel Radcliffe, Bill Gates, former White House Chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, national Tea Party movement leader Michael Johns, football player Drew Brees, and author Malcolm Gladwell.

Return to ABC News

ABC News (2011–2013)

From 2011 to 2013, Couric was a special correspondent for ABC News, a role she has incorporated into her talk show. Her first appearance on the network was a Sarah Jessica Parker interview on Nightline. Couric co-anchored coverage of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, alongside Diane Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour, Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Vargas, George Stephanopoulos, and Robin Roberts. Couric was hosting Today on NBC at the time of the attacks, and led CBS News's coverage of the fifth anniversary. Couric also guest co-hosted The View and Live! with Regis and Kelly. Couric interviewed Lady Gaga in primetime on Thanksgiving as part of A Very Gaga Thanksgiving. In November 2011, Couric hosted a special primetime ABC news program highlighting Regis Philbin's retirement, after Philbin's 25-year tenure at ABC.

Similar to colleague Barbara Walters, Couric anchors specials for the network and for the newsmagazine 20/20. While she contributes to the news program all throughout the year, in 2011, Couric created her newly annual special The Year with Katie Couric, which is a program that marks the end of the year and covers some of the biggest newsmakers and news events of that year. This is a collaboration with People magazine, which also reflects events in the world of news, sports, politics, and major headlines that helped shape the world. This is very similar to that of Walters's iconic Barbara Walters' 10 Most Fascinating People, a year end program that marks the end of the year and acknowledges the people that had the most impact on the year at hand with interviews on their perspective of the year. As part of the special, Couric interviews fellow members of the media that can provide some insight on some events that occurred.

From April 2 to 6, 2012, Couric substituted for co-anchor Robin Roberts on ABC's Good Morning America, her first stint at hosting a morning news show since leaving Today.

Katie (2012–2014)

On June 6, 2011, ABC announced that Couric had signed a record US$40-million contract, and would begin hosting a daytime talk show for its Disney-ABC Domestic Television arm that would debut in September 2012; Couric would also contribute to ABC News programming. On August 22, 2011, it was announced that Couric's talk show would be called Katie. Katie is the second web show that Couric has been affiliated with, the first being @katiecouric on the CBS Evening News. [needs context] The first episode aired on September 10, 2012.

Couric has incorporated her affiliation with the ABC News Division with her ABC Daytime show by having news colleagues Christiane Amanpour, Deborah Roberts, Mike Boettcher, Matt Gutman, Richard Besser, Marci Gonzalez, Jim Avila, Dan Abrams, Josh Elliott, Brian Ross, ABC News weather anchors Sam Champion and Ginger Zee, as well as ABC World News anchors Diane Sawyer and David Muir correspond on Katie for important news events. On the domestic end of her affiliation, Couric has had as guests The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg, Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan of Live! with Kelly and Michael, as well as some cast members of the soap opera General Hospital.

Disney-ABC Domestic Television renewed Katie for a second season starting in fall 2013. However, in October 2013, The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Katie was close to cancellation because of a low Q Score, low ratings, and a reported disdain of her core female audience. The syndicated show averaged a 1.7 household rating during its first season and a 1.8 in the 2013–14 season. In December 2013, Disney–ABC Domestic Television announced that Katie had been canceled. The last show was taped on June 12, 2014 and the series finale aired on July 30, 2014.

Yahoo! / ABC News (2014–2017)

In November 2013, Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer announced she had hired Couric as Global Anchor of Yahoo! News. Couric debuted in the new role on January 13, 2014, in an interview with former United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. She later interviewed United States Secretary of State John Kerry. In March 2015, in an effort to collaborate and to consolidate their news pools, Yahoo News and ABC News has expanded their partnership to include specials and features, with Couric and other Yahoo editors to appear in daily segments on Good Morning America. The extended partnership secured Couric as having a spot in the ABC News division, as a special contributor.

In her book Going There, Couric admitted to editing a 2016 interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The edits included removing portions of Ginsburg's statements that were critical of NFL protestors kneeling during the national anthem. Couric stated that her intent was to "protect" Ginsburg from her potentially unpopular comments as they were "unworthy of a crusader for equality".

In June 2017, after Verizon purchased Yahoo! and combined it into Oath, Couric decided to end her contract at Yahoo! News, preferring to work with them on a "project basis" only, while she continues to expand her own production company.

Public image

Couric has been dubbed "America's Sweetheart," largely due to her co-anchor role for 15 years on The Today Show. 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 or his short-lived The Jay Leno Show. Leno filled in for her on Today that same day. CNN and the New York Daily News noted that instead of using 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".

Other work

In a media crossover to animated film, Couric was the voice of news-reporter "Katie Current" in the US version of the film Shark Tale. She has also made cameo appearances in Austin Powers in Goldmember (as a Georgia State Prison guard) and an episode of General Hospital (as a journalist pretending to be a doctor: a storyline she helped create). She guest-starred as herself on the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown in 1992 and in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace in late 2002, and made a cameo appearance on a Pawn Stars episode. 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. She received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 2005. Couric delivered the graduation speech at her alma mater University of Virginia on May 20, 2012, at Randolph-Macon College on June 1, 2013, and at Princeton University on June 1, 2009. She also works with Carmen Marc Valvo to help publicize the deadliness, yet preventability, of colorectal cancer. On May 16, 2010, 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. In 2016, she starred as herself in Sully to recreate the 60 Minutes interview for the film.

In 2011, she gave the university commencement speech at Boston University and was awarded another doctoral degree, Doctor of Humane Letters. She has also 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. Sylvester sarcastically referred to Couric as "Diane Sawyer" during the segment.

Couric is the author of two children's books and a non-fiction collection of essays. Her children's books The Brand New Kid (2000) and The Blue Ribbon Day (2004) were illustrated by Marjorie Priceman and published by Doubleday. The Brand New Kid topped the New York Times best seller list for children's picture books, and was adapted into a 2006 musical by Melanie Marnich and Michael Friedman. Couric's third book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, was published by Random House in 2011. The book is a collection of essays compiled over the past year by Couric; contributors include New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Queen Rania of Jordan, and former Today Show colleague Matt Lauer. Couric said that a 2010 convocation keynote address she gave inspired her to write the book. To this end, all profits of the book will be donated to Scholarship America.

In December 2013, Couric ran a segment on the HPV vaccine which critics accused of being too sympathetic to the scientifically unsupported claims that this vaccine was dangerous. For example, Seth Mnookin accused her broadcast of employing false balance. In addition, Alexandra Sifferlin, of Time magazine, compared Couric to Jenny McCarthy, a well-known anti-vaccine celebrity. On December 10, 2013, a week after the original segment was aired, Couric posted an article on The Huffington Post responding to this criticism, in which she stated:

I felt it was a subject well worth exploring. Following the show, and in fact before it even aired, there was criticism that the program was too anti-vaccine and anti-science, and in retrospect, some of that criticism was valid. We simply spent too much time on the serious adverse events that have been reported in very rare cases following the vaccine. More emphasis should have been given to the safety and efficacy of the HPV vaccines.

Throughout the 2010s, Couric served as executive producer on several films. In 2014, Couric was an executive producer and narrator for the documentary Fed Up, examining the food industry and obesity in the United States. In 2016, Couric was an executive producer and narrator for the documentary Under the Gun, examining gun violence and gun control in the United States. The documentary was criticized for having an eight-second pause for "dramatic effect" inserted instead of the answer given to a question Couric posed to a gun-rights group in Virginia. Couric posted a response on the documentary's website stating, "I take responsibility for a decision that misrepresented an exchange I had with members of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL)", and she included a transcript of the response she received. Later that year, the VCDL filed a defamation lawsuit for $12 million against Couric and the film's director, Stephanie Soechtig, for continuing to promote and distribute the film without correcting the pause. The lawsuit was dismissed after a Virginia judge determined that the film scene was neither false nor defamatory. In 2015 Couric founded Katie Couric Media, a film production company which has partnered with National Geographic to produce several documentaries. The first of these, Gender Revolution, premiered in 2017. She was also an executive producer of Flint, a 2017 Lifetime drama about the Flint, Michigan, water crisis. In 2018, Couric hosted a docudrama series titled America Inside Out with Katie Couric, which was telecast on the National Geographic Channel.

Couric is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

In 2019, she served as executive producer on Netflix's true crime miniseries Unbelievable.

Couric signed on to serve as a substitute host of Jeopardy! in January 2021 following the death of Alex Trebek. Her episodes aired from March 8 to March 19.

Personal life and charitable work

Family and relationships

Couric married attorney John Paul "Jay" Monahan III in 1989. in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 1991; their second daughter, Caroline "Carrie" was born in New York City on January 5, 1996. Her husband died of colorectal cancer in 1998 at the age of 42. In September 2013, she became engaged to financier John Molner after a two-year relationship. Couric married Molner in a small, private ceremony at her home in The Hamptons on June 21, 2014. The two star in the online cooking series Full Plate with Katie & John, appearing on the Sur La Table website.

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 Batchelor and John M. Couric Jr.[citation needed]

During a January 15, 2021 appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher, Couric revealed that she is distantly related to William Henry Harrison, the ninth president of the United States.

Cancer and advocacy

On September 28, 2022, Couric revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer on June 21 of that year after a routine screening. She underwent surgery for the disease in July and began radiation treatment on September 7.

Couric had become a spokeswoman for colon cancer awareness ever since her first husband had died from the disease. She underwent a colonoscopy on-air in March 2000, and, according to a study published in 2003 in Archives of Internal Medicine, may have 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 two different data sets. This illustrates the possibility that a well-known individual can draw attention and support to worthwhile causes." On October 7, 2005, as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Couric broadcast her own mammogram on the Today show, in the hopes of recreating the "Couric Effect" around the issue of breast cancer. 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.[citation needed]

Couric was the honored guest at the 2004 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation fall gala. 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. In 2011, Couric became the Honorary National Chair of the National Parkinson Foundation's Moving Day campaign, a grassroots campaign to spotlight Parkinson's disease awareness on a national level. Couric's father died in 2011 at age 90 from complications due to Parkinson's disease.

Bibliography

  • Couric, Katie (2000). The Brand New Kid. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385500302.
  • Couric, Katie (2004). The Blue Ribbon Day. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 978-0385512923.
  • Couric, Katie (2011). The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives. New York: Random House. ISBN 978-0812992779.
  • Couric, Katie (2021). Going There. New York: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 978-0316535861.

See also

  • New Yorkers in journalism

Sources

  • Klein, Edward (2007), Katie: The Real Story, New York: Crown, ISBN 978-0-307-35351-1
  • Weller, Sheila (2015). The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour—and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV News.
  • NBC News April 26, 2011

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