katie couric

Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric born January 7, 1957 she is an Emmy-award winning American journalist

She is the first solo female anchor of a weekday evening news program on one of the three traditional U.S. broadcast networks. Before CBS

Katie Couric has filled in for Tom Brokaw on NBC Nightly News. Couric has also filled in for Maria Shriver on the Sunday Edition of NBC Nightly News from 1989 to 1992, and also for John Palmer on the Saturday Edition of NBC Nightly News in 1989.

Couric is a 60 Minutes correspondent and contributes 6-8 stories a year for the program

becoming the first solo female anchor of the "big three" weekday nightly news broadcasts.

Her first guest was the popular and controversial Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck



