Katie Couric

Katie Couric is one of the defining faces of American broadcast news for me. Anchoring Today, then becoming the first solo woman to anchor the CBS Evening News, was a genuine line in the sand for the industry. What I respect is that she didn't coast on that. She moved to 60 Minutes, into digital with Yahoo, then built Katie Couric Media and a daily newsletter when plenty of her peers were winding down. The Peabody, the Emmys, the Television Hall of Fame all track. I see her as someone who kept reinventing how she reaches an audience rather than clinging to one chair.

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Name (English)

Katie Couric

Name (Japanese)

ケイティ・クーリック

Reading

けいてぃ・くーりっく

Born

January 7, 1957 (age 69)

Origin

Arlington County, Virginia, United States

Height

162 cm

Occupation

journalist / news presenter / presenter / television producer / voice actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rooster

High school

Yorktown High School

University

University of Virginia

Awards & achievements

• Peabody Awards
• Daytime Emmy Award
• 2004 Television Hall of Fame
• 2013 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.katiecouric.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/katiecouric
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie%20Couric
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230739

Tags

• Virginia
• journalist
• news presenter
• presenter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.