Katie Couric
Katie Couric is the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, a 60 Minutes correspondent and anchor of CBS News primetime specials. Couric previously completed a 15-year run as co-anchor of NBC News’ “Today.” The Radio-Television News Directors Association honored the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric with the Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast in 2008 and 2009, and USC’s Annenberg School for Communication recently awarded Couric with the Walter Cronkite Award for Special Achievement for “National Impact on the 2008 Campaign.”
Couric has reported on and anchored newscasts and broadcasts for some of the biggest domestic and international stories and has conducted numerous exclusive interviews with President Obama, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, John and Elizabeth Edwards, Israeli Foreign Prime Minister Tzipi Livni and Michael J. Fox among many others. She led CBS’s critically acclaimed coverage of the historic 2008 Presidential election and also launched a series of webcasts giving viewers live, exclusive Web coverage of the election and the historic beginnings of Obama’s presidency. Over the past three years, Couric has anchored the broadcast from Iraq, Syria and Jordan and on-site during the California wildfires and the Minneapolis bridge collapse.
In 2000, Couric launched the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance in association with the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lilly Tartikoff, to fund new medical research in colorectal cancer. Following Couric’s on-air colonoscopy in 2000, a scientifically documented 20% increase in the number of colonoscopies performed across the country was dubbed “The Couric Effect” by researchers at the University of Michigan. In May 2008, Couric and her other network news counterparts participated in Stand Up To Cancer, an unprecedented effort that culminated in a one-hour, commercial-free, primetime program on ABC, CBS and NBC in Fall 2008.