Katie Couric Biography
Katie Couric (Katherine Anne Couric) is a famous American journalist, producer, presenter, and author. In addition, she is the founder of Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company. Besides, she publishes a daily newsletter, Wake Up Call. Since 2013 to 2017, she was Yahoo’s Global News Anchor.
Katie Couric Age|Birthday
Couric is 65 years old as of 2022. In addition, she was born on 7 January 1957, in Arlington County, Virginia, United States. Therefore, she celebrates her birthday on 7th January every year.
Katie Couric Height |weight
Couric has an average height of 1.54 meter (5 feet 0 inches) tall.
Katie Couric Family |Parents | Siblings
Couric was born and brought up in Arlington, Virginia, as the daughter of Elinor Tullie (née Hene), a homemaker and part-time writer, and also John Martin Couric, Jr., who is a public relations executive and news editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D.C. Furthermore, her mother was Jewish, and later converted to Presbyterianism before the marriage.
Katie Couric Husband
Couric first married attorney John Paul “Jay” Monahan III in 1989. Besides, she gave birth to their first daughter, Elinor Tully “Ellie” Monahan, in Washington, D.C., on July 23, 1991; their second daughter, Caroline “Carrie” who was born in New York City on January 5, 1996. Later, her husband died of colorectal cancer in 1998 at the age of 42 years.
She then became a spokeswoman for colon cancer awareness after the death of her husband. Additionally, she underwent a colonoscopy on-air in March 2000, and, according to a study published (2003) in Archives of Internal Medicine, may have inspired several others to get checked as well: “her televised colon cancer awareness campaign was temporarily associated along with an increase in colonoscopy use in two different data sets. Besides, this illustrates the possibility that a best-known individual can draw attention and support to worthwhile causes.”
Katie Couric Career
She has been a television host at all of the Big Three television networks in the United States, and also in her early career she became an assignment editor for CNN. Additionally, she served for NBC News since 1989 to 2006, CBS News from 2006 to 2011, and ABC News since 2011 to 2014. She appeared as a guest host for the game show Jeopardy!, the first woman to host the flagship American version of the show in its history in 2021.
Moreover, her roles in television news, she hosted Katie, a syndicated daytime talk show produced by Disney–ABC Domestic Television since September 10, 2012, to June 9, 2014. Furthermore, some of her most important presenting roles such as co-host of Today, anchor of the CBS Evening News, and also as a correspondent for 60 Minutes. Her 2011 book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, became a New York Times bestseller. Besides, she was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2004.
NBC
In 1989, she joined NBC News as Deputy Pentagon Correspondent. Since 1989 to 1991, she became an anchor substitute. Additionally, she filled in for Bryant Gumbel as host of Today; Jane Pauley and Deborah Norville as co-anchor of Today; Garrick Utley, Boyd Matson, Maria Shriver, and Mary Alice Williams as co-host of Sunday Today; and Connie Chung, John Palmer, Norville, Bob Jamieson, Faith Daniels, Ann Curry, and Margaret Larson as anchor of the former NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise. Besides, she subbed for Daniels, Norville, and John Palmer as the news anchor on Today.
Return to ABC News
Since 2011 to 2013, she became a special correspondent for ABC News, a role she has incorporated into her talk show. Furthermore, her first appearance on the network was a Sarah Jessica Parker interview on Nightline. Additionally, she co-anchored coverage of the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, together with Diane Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour, Elizabeth Vargas, George Stephanopoulos, Barbara Walters, and Robin Roberts.
Additionally, she was hosting Today on NBC at the time of the attacks, and led CBS News’s coverage of the fifth anniversary. Besides, she guest co-hosted The View and Live! with Regis and Kelly. She as well interviewed Lady Gaga in primetime on Thanksgiving as part of A Very Gaga Thanksgiving. She hosted an unique primetime ABC news program highlighting Regis Philbin’s retirement, after Philbin’s 25-year tenure at ABC in November 2011.
Katie Couric Education
She attended Arlington Public Schools: Williamsburg Middle School, Jamestown Elementary, and Yorktown High School, and as well was a cheerleader. She was an intern at Washington, D.C. all-news radio station WAVA as a high school student. Couric enrolled at her father’s alma mater, the University of Virginia, in 1975 and became a Delta Delta Delta sorority sister. She worked in many positions at UVA’s award-winning daily newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. Throughout her fourth year at UVA, she was chosen to live as Senior Resident (SR) of The Lawn, the heart of Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village. Later, she graduated in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies.
Katie Couric Net worth| Salary
Couric has an estimated net worth of around $110 million. Furthermore, she receives an average salary of $10 Million approximately.
