Motivation: Anchor Woman Katie Couric

Katie Couric is an American journalist, currently the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, and host of @katiecouric, a webshow on CBSNews.com. She is the first solo female anchor of a weekday evening news program on one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks.

Born Katherine Anne Couric, on Jan 7, 1957, in Arlington, Virginia. The youngest of 4 young kids of John, right away a late publisher and open family executive, and his wife Elinor, Couric graduated from the University of Virginia in 1979 with a degree in American Studies. Just after college, she relocated to Washington, D.C., to proceed a career in air wave headlines reporting. Couric married Jay Monahan in 1989. 

Couric’s implausible success with Today one after another via the 1990s. In the summer of 1998, she sealed a four-year stipulate prolongation with NBC for $28 million. Her $7 million each year income towering her in to the ranks of the tip personalities in TV news, together with prime-time anchors Diane Sawyer, Brokaw, and Dan Rather. That same year, however, Couric faced surpassing tragedy in her personal life: Monahan, afterwards a authorised researcher with NBC News, died in Jan 1998 after a six-month conflict with colon cancer. He was 42. In the years after her husband’s death, Couric mounted an assertive debate to lift income for investigate and contrast in sequence to quarrel colon cancer. As partial of her efforts, Couric masterminded dual weeklong air wave array to lift recognition of the disease, even undergoing an on-air colonoscopy herself in sequence to stir upon viewers the significance of testing. By the finish of 2000, her debate had lifted some-more than $10 million. She launched the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA) to encourage preventive testing and new medical research.

In Jan 2002, Couric sealed a new stipulate with NBC for a reported $65 million over 4 and a half years, that authorised her to stay at the helm of Today as good as try alternative possibilities at the network. The understanding done Couric the world’s top paid TV personality. Couric one after another to have TV story in 2006. After fifteen years with the Today show, she sealed a understanding with CBS to turn the initial lady to anchor the dusk headlines alone. She would additionally minister to 60 Minutes and anchor budding time headlines specials for CBS. It was the initial dusk newscast to be simulcast live upon the Internet and internal air wave stations. The uncover drew around 13.6 million viewers, the top ratings for the uncover given Feb 1998.

In 2008, Couric won the Edward R. Murrow Award for most appropriate newscast, she was also named News Person of the Year by TV GUIDE in 2001. Other awards she has won include Daytime Emmys, an Associated Press Award and a National Headliner Award.

Katie now lives in New York with her Elinor and Caroline.

"I've always tried to stay true to my authentic self. Although it may be terrifying to get out of your comfort zone, it's also very exciting to start a new chapter in your life. I think if you're too busy worrying about the competition, you don't focus enough on what you're doing."
-Katie Couric








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