Katie Couric

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 Kyle Drennen BARACK OBAMA: I think I messed up, I screwed up. COURIC: And political capital, right? COURIC: Until the very end of his presidency. COURIC: -for many, many months- COURIC: -and anti-lobbyists, so- COURIC: Yes, I think it's going on as we speak, Harry. COURIC: Your welcome.

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.

Columbus Dispatch  MN - Dec 26, 2008 After two years of relentlessly bad ratings news, Katie Couric finally has something she can smile about. The "CBS Evening News" anchor remains in third ... Bianculli Review: Plenty to Celebrate About 2008 Digital Post Production all 19 news articles

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...

ABC News  GA - Katie Couric seemed desperate to know what newspapers Sarah Palin reads. She hounded Palin to name more than one regulatory reform John McCain has ... ABC: McCain ‘Nasty & Bitter’; CBS: He’s Going Negative to Depress ... NewsBusters all 5,376 news articles

after every attempt to answer her loaded questions. Katie Couric would do well do review her own TV ratings, and consider who should really be embarrassed. Video: VP Debate Q & A CBS New York Times - CBS News all 1,288 news articles

By liza Now, how does this tie in to her interview with Katie Couric? Couric Why, in your view, is Roe v. Wade a bad decision? Couric: The cornerstone of Roe v. Wade. Couric: What other Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with? Couric: Can you think of any?

By Alex Koppelman Tuesday night, CBS News broadcast yet another interview that Katie Couric conducted with Sarah Palin. The results were somewhat better for Palin than they have been in the past, but she still gave one truly puzzling response, and a few evasive ones. COURIC: Can you name a few?

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 Justin Gardner I shared a quote from Ross Douthat yesterday about not wanting to link to any of the Couric interview videos, but now we have Kathleen Parker actively not wanting Palin to be linked to the Republican ticket at all. Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie C...

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?

Times Online  NY - Most recently this morning, in a web ad that uses Katie Couric to help land the blow. In a video clip from her evening-news show, Couric says, ... Odds And Ends New York Daily News Lingua publica Enter Stage Right all 1,769 news articles

By Brent Baker CBS Evening News, picking up after the VP speculation: NBC Nightly News, after Brian Williams' intro centered on the VP talk: WILLIAMS: Andrea Mitchell in our Washington news room tonight with the very latest on all of this. Andrea, Thanks.

By Justin McCarthy Throughout much of the rest of the interview, Couric complained about her negative press and denied rumors she is leaving her anchor position at CBS anytime soon. KATIE COURIC: Yeah, I was misquoted actually- COURIC: Five years actually. COURIC: No. I have no plans to be. COURIC: Very, uh huh.

CBS News  CA - The three networks are sending their top news stars - Katie Couric of CBS, Brian Williams of NBC and Charles Gibson of ABC - to meet up with and interview ... CBS Raises Anti-Obama Racism, McCain Distancing from 'Hard Right' NewsBusters all 594 news articles

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...

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 Tim Graham As Couric cited these poll numbers (from the Washington Post), she and Father Williams did not discuss one problem with the polls: that they include anyone telling the pollster they are Catholic, regardless of whether they attend church regularly -- or attend church at all.

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...

Talks between Katie Couric and her bosses at CBS News over her future as anchor of the “Evening News” have been amicable, with both sides agreeing that while the content of her broadcast is competitive, the program’s lagging ratings can’t be accepted for the long term. No decision has been...

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.