Katie Couric
Katherine Anne Couric [ ˈkʊɹɪk ], called "Katie" (born January 7, 1957 in Arlington , Virginia ) is an American journalist and correspondent .
Life
Couric was born in Arlington to Elinor and John Martin Couric Jr. She attended elementary and secondary schools in Arlington before enrolling in 1975 at the University of Virginia (UVA) majoring in English and history . She joined the Delta Delta Delta fraternity . During her studies she worked for the university newspaper The Cavalier Daily . In 1979 she completed her studies in American Studies .
Journalistic career
Couric's career began when she was recruited for ABC News in Washington, DC . She later moved to CNN as an editor . Between 1984 and 1986 she worked as a reporter for a television station called WTVJ in Miami , Florida . The following two years Couric worked for WRC-TV, a subsidiary of NBC in Washington. This work earned her an Associated Press award and an Emmy .
In 1989 she moved to NBC News, where she became a correspondent for the United States Department of Defense and also represented various hosts on the Today show . In 1990 Couric became political correspondent for the news program Today , where she initially represented the presenter Deborah Norville, whose successor as news anchor she was in April 1991. She later moderated the magazine NBC Now (later incorporated into Dateline NBC ) with Tom Brokaw , where her reports appeared regularly and she was also named as an author.
Starting in 2005 and through 2006, Today was increasingly competing with Good Morning America , which had gained popularity with Robin Roberts joining the existing presenters Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer as co-host. Couric therefore had the choice of either staying on Today as a presenter or taking the risk of switching to the CBS Evening News .
CBS
On 5 April 2006, its 15th anniversary as an announcer of the Today show , announced Couric, despite the offer of one annual salary of more than 20 million US dollars through NBC, its move to CBS as a spokeswoman for the main news CBS Evening News with the words :
“I wanted to tell all of you out there… that after listening to my heart and my gut, two things that have served me pretty well in the past, I've decided I'll be leaving Today at the end of May. [ …] I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. [...] Sometimes I think change is a good thing, although it may be terrifying to get out of your comfort zone, it's very exciting to start a new chapter in your life ”
“I want to let you all out there that after listening to my heart and gut - two things that have always helped me - I decided to leave Today at the end of May. […] I really feel like this as if we've become friends over the years. […] Sometimes I think that change is a good thing and although it is intimidating to leave safe ground, it is also exciting to start a new chapter in life. "
CBS confirmed that same evening that Couric would become the new spokesperson and editor-in-chief of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric , with her first broadcast scheduled for September 5, 2006. Couric would then also work on 60 Minutes and moderate prime-time specials. Couric would still be the highest paid newscaster with an annual salary of $ 15 million. Couric became the first woman to present the main weekday news from one of the three major broadcasters alone.
CBS's decision to raise Couric to the executive chair has been criticized by many. Mainly this was pegged to her alleged lack of hard journalism and evidence to become the sole spokesperson for the CBS Evening News . She was measured against her predecessors such as Dan Rather or Walter Cronkite , who was described several times in audience surveys as “The Most Trusted Man in America”.
Courics first appearance as a spokeswoman for the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric was on Tuesday, September 5, 2006. The shipment was from a newly established TV studio transferred, there was a new graphics and a new, by James Horner composed theme song with a voice -over by Walter Cronkite.
This was the first evening news to be broadcast simultaneously on the Internet and on the radio. The critics reacted mixedly to the first show, which had around 13.6 million viewers. That was the highest number for the CBS Evening News since February 1998 and roughly double the usual viewership. In mid-September 2006, the show reached number 1 in the weekly ratings, closely followed by NBC Nightly News .
From October onwards, however, the audience share dropped again rapidly and Couric's show dropped to third place behind the shows on NBC and ABC. This placed the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric in last place in all major markets. Senior executives at CBS as well as people in the immediate vicinity have publicly speculated that Couric could vacate their chair in January 2009, two years before the regular end of the contract.
Further stations
In 2011, Couric left CBS and returned to ABC News, where she worked as a correspondent until 2013 and ran various news programs and talk shows. In January 2014 she moved to Yahoo .
Couric has interviewed a wide variety of politicians and celebrities, including Gerald Ford , Jimmy Carter , George HW Bush , Bill Clinton , George W. Bush , Barbara Bush , Tony Blair , Hillary Clinton (her first television interview), Joanne K. Rowling, and Laura Bush . John F. Kennedy Jr. gave Couric his first and last interview.
She produced the diabetes documentary Fed Up (premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival ).
In 2019, Couric was executive producer on Netflix's own production Unbelievable .
criticism
The show Access Hollywood station's NBC Universal reported that Couric certain risky situations did not want the other journalists had taken upon himself. When asked whether she would travel to the Middle East , she is quoted as saying: “ I think the situation there is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two children, that's something I won't be doing ” (German: “I think die Situation there is so dangerous, and as a single parent with two children, that's something I won't do. ”) Access Hollywood later corrected this report as misleading, explaining Couric's statement by stating that CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier had just gone was injured in Iraq while Couric was her co-host on Today .
Katie Couric publishes a podcast entitled Katie Couric Commentary Notebook on the CBS Internet platform. In April 2007, one of these programs was caught in the media crossfire. The report, titled, "Is America ready for a President who grew up praying in a mosque?" , Quoted Couric from a post in the Los Angeles Times . The article quotes an acquaintance from Barack Obama's childhood who claims that Obama prayed in a mosque as a child . The video was later removed from the CBS website and the transcript of the video was added, citing an article in the Chicago Tribune .
In addition, Couric was often criticized for mixing journalistic reporting and entertainment.
Private
Couric had been married to Jay Monahan since 1989, who died of colon cancer in 1998 at the age of 42 . They have two daughters together. Her husband's cancer death made Couric a prominent advocate for colorectal cancer awareness. She underwent a colonoscopy in March 2000 as part of cancer screening , which was broadcast on television. Studies show that this action inspired third parties to get examined. She makes public announcements and voice-overs as part of the National Hockey League's Hockey Fights Cancer campaign . In October 2005 - October is known as National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in the US - she underwent a mammogram during the Today broadcast in order to use the “Couric Effect” on breast cancer . Her sister Emily Couric died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 54 .
Awards
Couric has received several awards for her journalistic work, including the Peabody Award for the series Confronting Colon Cancer. In 2004 she was honored by the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation for her work against cancer at a gala.
It is UNICEF - ambassador for the United States.
Trivia
In the original English version of the cartoon Big Sharks - Little Fish (English original title Shark Tale ) she lends her voice to the character of the reporter "Katie Current". She made a guest appearance as a Georgia State Prison guard in the movie Austin Powers in Gold Stand. She plays herself as an NBC reporter on an episode of the US sitcom Will & Grace .
On May 12, 2003, she hosted Jay Leno's Tonight Show as a guest , which saw an audience increase of 45%. CNN and the New York Daily News noted that instead of Jay Leno's usual table, there was another table that had studio workers removed from the front panel to reveal Couric's legs.
Web links
- Katie Couric at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Katie Couric's CV on CBS News
- Katie Couric on Newsgroper.com (satire)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biography of Katie Couric
- ↑ a b Ask the Expert: Katie Couric ( memento of the original from June 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Can we take Katie Couric as a hard-news journalist? , from The Seattle Times by Florangela Davila (April 7, 2006)
- ↑ CBS Corporation ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Is Couric ready for prime-time TV-news , from USA Today by Stephen Winzenburg (April 9, 2006)
- ↑ James Horner on the Internet Movie Database , accessed March 16, 2007
- ↑ Report of the NY Times
- ↑ Why Katie Couric is losing momentum by Jon Friedman, September 18, 2006, accessed April 28, 2007
- ↑ CBS Trailing ABC By 1 Million + ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Evening News Ratings of October 5, 2006 on: mediabistro.com
- ↑ Shister, Gail. “New producer brought in for 'CBS Evening News'” ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Philadelphia Inquirer March 9, 2007
- ^ Dana, Rebecca, "CBS, Couric Likely to Split," from the Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2008
- ↑ Emma Specter: Netflix's Unbelievable Is a Gutting, Painstaking Depiction of Sexual Assault. In: Vogue . September 13, 2019, accessed July 10, 2020 .
- ^ Access Hollywood
- ↑ Katie Couric: 'Is America ready for a President who grew up praying in a mosque?' dated April 10, 2007, accessed December 23, 2007
- ↑ Couric's "Notebook" rehashed debunked Obama rumors from Media Matters for America, accessed December 23, 2007
- ↑ Katie Couric's Notebook: Obama's Background by CBS News, published April 11, 2007, accessed December 26, 2007
- ↑ Colorectal Cancer And The Katie Couric Effect ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Katie Couric Gets On-Air Mammogram . People , July 10, 2005.
- ↑ 2004 Friends for Life Fall Gala ( memento of the original from October 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Couric, Katie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Couric, Katherine Anne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and correspondent |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Arlington , Virginia |