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Katie Couric
Katherine Anne Couric is an American journalist and presenter. She is founder of Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company. She also publishes a daily newsletter, Wake Up Call. Since 2016, she has hosted the podcast Next Question with Katie Couric.
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culture · American journalist (born 1957) · journalist · news presenter · presenter · television producer · voice actor · writer · film producer · children's writer · podcaster · talk show host · also Katie Couric, Katherine Anne Couric, Katy Couric, Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric, Couric
Born 7 January 1957 · Q230739
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2026· 13 entries
“We might be able to follow on the presidential candidates,”
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“I just want you to know I will always be proud to say”
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Women's Health: How Katie Couric is building stronger bones at 69 – the 6 resistance exercises she relies on
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Yahoo: Katie Couric Slams ’60 Minutes’ Shake-Up Under New Boss Bari Weiss: a ‘Total Embarrassment’
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Wonderwall: Katie Couric says '60 Minutes' bowing to administration pressure is a ’total embarrassment’
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People: Katie Couric Admits Fame ‘F---s with Your Head’ as She Reflects on Emmy-Winning Career in Television News
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People: All About Katie Couric’s 2 Daughters, Ellie and Carrie
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New York Daily News: Katie Couric reveals temporary amnesia erased hours of memory
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Public attention spiked: 10,310 Wikipedia readers in one day, 8.8× the usual 1,171, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Katie Couric reveals temporary amnesia erased hours of memory” (New York Daily News).
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Public attention spiked: 4,669 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4× the usual 1,171, with 0 article edits. Coverage that week: “Katie Couric calls out former '60 Minutes' boss, says she was 'gaslit'” (USA Today).
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USA Today: Katie Couric calls out former '60 Minutes' boss, says she was 'gaslit'
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AOL: Katie Couric, 69, Introduces Baby Granddaughter Virginia With Sweet First Photo
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2022· 1 entry
Couric revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer on June 21 of that year after a routine screening
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Katie Couric is married to Matt Lauer.” False.
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Appeared as a guest host for the game show Jeopardy
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2019· 1 entry
Served as executive producer on Netflix's true crime miniseries Unbelievable
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2018· 1 entry
Couric hosted a docudrama series titled America Inside Out with Katie Couric, which was telecast on the National Geographic Channel
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2017· 3 entries
FactCheck.org rated the claim “Katie Couric canceled an interview with Hillary Clinton because Clinton called former President Obama a racial slur.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Katie Couric banished Hillary Clinton from her set in August 2017 after Clinton used a racist word to describe President Obama.” False.
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Couric founded her own media company, Katie Couric Media
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2016· 2 entries
Starred as herself in Sully to recreate the 60 Minutes interview for the film
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Couric was an executive producer and narrator for the documentary Under the Gun, examining gun violence and gun control in the United States
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2015· 1 entry
Couric founded Katie Couric Media, a film production company which has partnered with National Geographic to produce several documentaries
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2014· 3 entries
And the series finale aired on July 30, 2014
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In an interview with former United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
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Couric was an executive producer and narrator for the documentary Fed Up, examining the food industry and obesity in the United States
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2013· 2 entries
A week after the original segment was aired, Couric posted an article on The Huffington Post responding to this criticism, in which she stated:
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Awarded Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for Katie (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
At Randolph-Macon College on June 1, 2013, and at Princeton University on June 1, 2009
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2011· 7 entries
It was announced that Couric's talk show would be called Katie
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ABC announced that Couric had signed a record US$40-million contract, and would begin hosting a daytime talk show for its Disney-ABC Domestic Television arm that would debut in September 2012; Couric would also contribut
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Couric guest-starred on the post-Super Bowl episode of Glee, playing herself interviewing Sue Sylvester after the cheerleading team lost the championship
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Couric became the Honorary National Chair of the National Parkinson Foundation's Moving Day campaign, a grassroots campaign to spotlight Parkinson's disease awareness on a national level
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Couric created her newly annual special The Year with Katie Couric, which is a program that marks the end of the year and covers some of the biggest newsmakers and news events of that year
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Gave the university commencement speech at Boston University and was awarded another doctoral degree, Doctor of Humane Letters
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At age 90 from complications due to Parkinson's disease
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2010· 2 entries
Couric received an honorary doctor of science degree for her efforts in raising awareness of colorectal cancer and for her commitment to advancing medical research from Case Western Reserve University, and later gave the
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Dealt with the issues that children go through when a parent dies
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2009· 1 entry
Couric was awarded the Emmy Governor's Award for her broadcasting career
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2008· 2 entries
Couric made a return visit to Today, almost two years to the day after leaving back on May 31, 2006
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“s official projection for the 2008 United States Presidential Election. The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric won the 2008 and 2009 Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast. In 2009, Couric was awarded the Emmy Governor”
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2005· 1 entry
As part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Couric broadcast her own mammogram on the Today show, in the hopes of recreating the "Couric Effect" around the issue of breast cancer
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Television Hall of Fame (2004).
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Couric was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame
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2003· 3 entries
Couric guest-hosted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno as part of a swap campaign, and had 45 percent more viewers than on other nights
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Traded places for a day with Tonight Show host Jay Leno
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In Archives of Internal Medicine, may have inspired many others to get checked as well: "Katie Couric's televised colon cancer awareness campaign was temporarily associated with an increase in colonoscopy use in two diff
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2001· 1 entry
Her sister Emily Couric, a Virginia Democratic state senator, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 54 on October 18, 2001.
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1997· 1 entry
Couric asked the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward about the Clinton "Chinagate" scandal: "Are members of the media, do you think, Bob, too scandal-obsessed, looking for something at every corner
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1994· 1 entry
Became co-anchor of Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric—an evening time weekly TV newsmagazine with Tom Brokaw—which was later terminated and folded into part of Dateline NBC, where her reports appeared regularly an
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1993· 1 entry
And Harry Potter: Behind the Magic in 2001
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1992· 1 entry
And in the NBC sitcom Will & Grace in late 2002, and made a cameo appearance on a Pawn Stars episode
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1989· 1 entry
Couric joined Today as national political correspondent, becoming a substitute co-host in February 1991, when Norville went on maternity leave
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1979· 2 entries
Was at the ABC News bureau in Washington, D
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With a bachelor's degree in American Studies
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1975· 1 entry
And was a Delta Delta Delta sorority sister
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-01-07.
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