Katie Couric

In an interview to air on 60 Minutes, tennis great Andre Agassi talks candidly with Katie Couric about his life, career, and drug use while playing professional tennis.

By Brent Baker ABC anchor Charles Gibson set up the World News story: The entire story on the Thursday, November 5 NBC Nightly News, transcript provided by the MRC's Brad Wilmouth: BARRY RAND, AARP: This bill includes critical priorities for seniors.

By Brent Baker Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn't cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, “Fort Hood tr...

Katie Couric speaks with CBS News' David Martin at the Pentagon and correspondent Don Teague, reporting from the Ft. Hood army base in Texas.

gt;Update: At 4:49pmET Brian Williams began anchoring what would be a 20-minute special report for NBC stations which included remarks from Pres. Obama. CBS' Couric and ABC's Gibson also anchored special coverage of Obama's remarks.

Eight of CBS's 15 nods were nominations for segments on "60 Minutes." Four others were for "Evening News with Katie Couric."Two of CNBC's documentaries were nominated for awards as well as "Boom, Bust, Blame: The Inside Story of America's Economic Crisis" on CNBC.com.Two of Elisabeth Leam...

By Sadie In her Glamour Women of the Year interview with Katie Couric (video after jump), Michelle Obama was strong and on-message, giving some of the best advice we've heard (and Katie Couric does a Fran Drescher impression at 15 minutes). katiecouric: Michelle Obama [CBS]

By Brent Baker A year later, in July of 2008, Couric heralded: “Al Gore laid down a green gauntlet today.” And she couldn't resist reminding viewers that Gore's “environmental work earned him a Nobel prize” before she helpfully cued him up on energy policy: “It really is multi-tiered, isn't it? I mean, i...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Gore talked about those similarities during webcast interview with Katie Couric about his new book Our Choice, his follow-up to the film about global warming An Inconvenient Truth. Watch the interview: Watch CBS News Videos Online

By Brent Baker TVNewswer reported Monday that Katie Couric “will sit down this afternoon for an exclusive interview with former Vice President Al Gore in advance of the release of his new book, Our Choice, to be released tomorrow. Portions of the interview will air tonight on the CBS Evening News.” Full t...

By Noel Sheppard When Katie Couric and the folks at CBS start doubting what the Administration says about how effective February's economic stimulus package was, you know President Obama is in trouble. COURIC: Chip Reid reporting from the White House tonight. Thanks, Chip.

The biblical rain kept most of the moguls and media mavens away today. So, rather than people watch, I passed the time by flipping through the latest issue of Avenue featuring an ultra-glam Katie Couric on the cover. The glossy devotes eight (!) pages to the CBS Evening News anchor and photog...

Katie Couric may have become the first woman to anchor a national evening news broadcast in 2006, but Univision's Maria Elena Salinas has been co-anchoring one since 1987. Noticiero Univision," the broadcast Salinas co-anchors with Jorge Ramos, had its best season ever in 2008-2009, a...

By Ann Oldenburg Wow. I love the smell of estrogen in the afternoon," cracked Katie Couric as she took the stage at the Women's Conference. And because it's always a good idea to warm up the crowd with a joke, she told one:...

By Brent Baker KATIE COURIC: Politicians and the media have long had a contentious relationship. It's part of the American system, but we've never seen anything quite as intense as the feud between President Obama and the Fox News Channel. Our senior political correspondent Jeff Greenfield tunes in to...

The perception is that even their news is skewed toward opinion -- not when I watch it. It's a fair news organization. It's not my job to defend them. But I'm more likely to believe Shep Smith than Katie Couric or Brian Williams. Their news is advertiser-driven." And Fox's isn't? "We're better pe...

By Brent Baker With First Lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey now in Copenhagen, CBS anchor Katie Couric on Wednesday night declared “the 'Dream Team' pushing Chicago's bid for the 2016 Olympic summer games is nearly complete” and is now just awaiting “the team captain” -- that would be President Ba...

Couric has had a busy week with the launch of @katiecouric and high profile interviews with Ahmadinejad and First Lady Michelle Obama. And, as the Columbia Journalism Review notes, she's compensated well for it. Michael Massing says network salaries like hers are inviting a new set of que...

By Tim Graham Stanley also uncharitably placed Brian Williams in a self-pitying category: Mr. Williams, who ascended to the position of NBC anchor on the shoulders of an old boys’ club, now has to reposition himself as a member of a persecuted minority, the white male anchorman.

By Rich Noyes The TVNewser blog alerted me to Katie Couric’s “Notebook” item yesterday, in which she mocks the New York Times for making “not one, not two, but seven errors” in their remembrance of the late Walter Cronkite last week. TVNewser suggested Couric may have trying to get “payback” for an anti...

By The Huffington Post News Team Katie Couric slammed the New York Times for running an error-filled article about CBS News legend Walter Cronkite. In her "Notebook" on CBSNews.com on Friday,... Katie Couric slammed the New York Times for running an error-filled article about CBS News legend Walter Cronkite.

By Brent Baker NBC anhor Brian Williams set up the report on his newscast by trumpeting the “big deal” of Wal-Mart's support for Obama: “Today a big American name swung its support to President Obama. Wal-Mart has endorsed a key part of the President's plan to overhaul health care. And, as U.S. employers go,...

By Brent Baker In the taped interview aired on the Thursday, July 15, 2004 Today show, Couric cued up the couple: “I know you'll be celebrating your 27th wedding anniversary. And I understand you go through a romantic ritual every year to commemorate that date. Share it with us will you?” John Edwards answ...

By Brent Baker COURIC: But that does make cooperation pretty challenging. COURIC TO HOLDER: Did someone tell you to back off? COURIC: Does closing the gun show loophole fall into those categories? COURIC: What do you think of him making those remarks to begin with?

By Kyle Drennen KATIE COURIC: Tonight, 13 jobs a minute disappearing. BARACK OBAMA: These numbers demand action. COURIC: Anthony Mason has more now on the numbing numbers. OBAMA: The situation could not be more serious. COURIC: Alright. Anthony Mason. Thank you, Anthony.

By Jen Chung Photograph at left of Katie Couric and Captain Chesley Sullenberger by Sam Painter/CBS News; photograph at right of Couric interviewing the Flight 1549 crew by Aaron Tomlinson/CBS News Last night, 60 Minutes aired interviews with Flight 1549's pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, as well a...

By Verne Gay So, what did you think of "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" last night? First - ever - "Evening News" edition in prime time, 8:00 p.m., which makes it a landmark in the television news business. My thoughts:... So, what did you think of "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" last night? Fir...

By Noel Sheppard Salon's Camille Paglia believes that of all the print and television journalists that have ever interviewed her, CBS's Katie Couric was "definitively the stupidest." According to Paglia, "There's many a moose in Alaska with greater charm and pizazz" than that possessed by Couric.

By Geoffrey Dickens On Wednesday's "Today" show, Matt Lauer played a portion of his interview with Sarah Palin in Alaska where he asked Palin if his former "Today" co-anchor, Katie Couric, was "unfair," during her pre-election interview, to which Palin responded she found some of the questions, "a little...

By Felix Gillette “I’d like an hour,” said Ms. Couric. “I really would like more time,” said Ms. Couric. “Because I think time is not our friend at the Evening News.” “I’m having an election-night rehearsal,” she said. “I’ll be dressing as Katie Couric, anchorwoman.”

By Jeff Bercovici It will probably never climb out of third place in the evening news race, but CBS earned some big-time respect in the closing weeks of the election. Katie Couric dismantled Sarah Palin with such exquisite sympathy that no one but the most blinkered partisans could accuse her of acting in ba...

By Brent Baker Over video simply showing Barack Obama walking down the steps from his airplane, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric on Tuesday night juxtaposed how Obama “was given a police escort to his hotel,” as if that’s anything unusual for a presidential nominee under standard Secret Service p...

Is Sarah Palin Qualified to be one heart beat away from the Oval Office? I have included both installments of the Palin interview with Katie Couric in this post along with the Saturday Night Live spoof and some additional commentary. You have to see this to believe it. But first I offer a bit of...

By Geoffrey Dickens AMY POEHLER AS KATIE COURIC: You don't have any lifelines. The following is the full Mitchell piece as it occurred on the September 29, "Today" show: OBAMA: Thank you Fredericksburg! MITCHELL: McCain on ABC. AMY POEHLER AS KATIE COURIC: You don't have any lifelines.

By Megan Worst Of Sarah Palin's Katie Couric Interview (So Far) [Gawker] More Painful Palin Excerpts From Couric Interview [Daily Kos] Wasilla Watch: Sarah Palin and the Rape Kits [New York Times] Palin Accepted $25,000 in Gifts, Alaska Records Show [Washington Post]

By Eric Zorn CBS Video From tonight's installment of GOP veep candidate Sarah Palin's interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric. I'm limiting comments on this item to one word only. Adjectives preferred. And yes, "un-flippin'-believable" counts as one word. COURIC: Mock?

By Brent Baker KATIE COURIC: Earlier today, Senator, I spoke with your running mate, Sarah Palin, and she told me that if action is not taken, a Great Depression is quote “the road that America may find itself on.” Do you agree with that assessment?

By NB Staff The Big Three network news anchors are planning on traveling to Iraq with Sen. Obama, whereas McCain's Iraq trip in March was all but ignored. For example, Noyes noted, Katie Couric gave John McCain's Iraq trip a grand total of 10 seconds of coverage on the "Evening News," and yet she and...

Figuring out why the media love to harp on the New York Times is like figuring out, um, why the media love to harp on Katie Couric: There must be a reason, but it’s sort of ambiguous. Couric, like the Times, serves a worthwhile purpose: Delivering the news and instigating debate. But also like C...

Tom Brokaw got it right. As the first of 10 speakers at the memorial service Wednesday for Tim Russert, Mr. Brokaw promised the afternoon would be an “Irish-style” celebration with some tears, some laughs and “the occasional truth.” Then he broke the ice by acknowledging the largest contin...

By Kyle Drennen On Monday’s CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric hyped a new potential scandal for the Bush administration as she declared: "Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, a report due out tomorrow raises some serious questions about one of the most influential government agencies, the Environmenta...

By The Huffington Post News Editors Yesterday, I spoke to former "CBS Evening News" anchor Dan Rather about the recent travails of the current anchor of that program, namely Katie Couric and the recent reports that she will be leaving her $15-million-per-year contract early. Rather gave us some thoughts on Couric and the f...

By Marvin Kitman Bob Schieffer, 71, is an obvious choice. He can do the news from his leisure village. Schieffer's actually a serious news guy who has the right gravitas, and is the right demo. The only time The CBS Evening News ratings had gone up significantly in the last 12 years was when Schieffer took over a...

By david He didn’t give her much of a response. The night she told CBS brass of the job switch, she worked a full day and stayed through the night. Then, at 5:30am, she was awoke by a call from Kaplan, who was phoning from the control room to say he would match the offer she received and pay $5,000 more to kee...

By Brent Baker COURIC, cutting him off: Other than education. A portion of the obituary story on the April 6 World News on ABC: DAN HARRIS: As President of the National Rifle Association, he became one of the most-polarizing figures in American politics.

By Brent Baker COURIC: I knew you were gonna say that. COURIC, GIGGLING: But I'm talking about pure stamina. COURIC: Having said that, do you pop vitamins, do you mainline coffee? COURIC, GIGGLING: I don't know if I want to hear the back story on that!

By NB Staff An excerpt from "Couric weighs in on Iraq, Rather," by Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin in the September 26 Washington Examiner: Speaking at the National Press Club Tuesday evening, CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric pulled back the curtain on her personal views of both the war in Iraq a...

By NB Staff That's how MRC director of media analysis and NewsBusters senior editor Tim Graham described Katie Couric's recent conversation with Marvin Kalb in which the CBS anchor laid out her liberal opinions of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq.

By Eric Deggans Katie Couric (CBS Evening News anchor): $15 million Couric. Matt Lauer (NBC Today co-anchor): $12 million. Meredith Vieira (NBC Today co-anchor): $10 million. Keith Olbermann (MSNBC anchor): $4 million. Harry Smith (CBS The Early Show ...

By Marvin Kitman The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric made a big splash last week recording its smallest audience for the network's evening news since 1987. It's not surprising. Since her debut eight months ago, Couric's ratings have been going down so fast she's getting the bends.