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Katie Couric

Award-Winning Journalist and Advocate for Social Change, Inspiring Conversations on Current Affairs and Cancer Prevention
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Gender: Female
Nationality: United States
Languages: English
Travels from: United States

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    • Media Pioneer: The first woman to solo anchor the CBS Evening News and co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer, raising nearly $800 million for cancer research.
    • Founder of Katie Couric Media: Launched in 2017, KCM produces documentaries, podcasts, and content focused on social issues like gender equality and sustainability.
    • Acclaimed Author and Speaker: Known for her memoir Going There and her ability to engage audiences with stories from her legendary journalism career.

    Biography

    Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist, New York Times best-selling author and a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer® (SU2C). Since its launch in 2008, Stand Up To Cancer has raised nearly $800 million to support cutting-edge collaborative science and its research has contributed to the FDA approval of ten new cancer therapies, including treatments for breast, colorectal, ovarian, pancreatic and prostate cancers, and difficult-to-treat leukemias in children and young adults.

    In 2017, she founded Katie Couric Media (KCM), which has developed a number of media projects, including a daily newsletter, a podcast, digital video series and several documentaries. KCM works with purpose driven brands to create premium content that addresses important social issues like gender equality, environmental sustainability and mental health.

    Previous documentaries produced by KCM include: America Inside Out with Katie Couric, a six-part series for National Geographic; Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric, for National Geographic; Under the Gun, which aired on EPIX; and Fed Up, available on iTunes, Amazon and YouTube. Couric was also the executive producer of Unbelievable on Netflix and is developing other scripted projects.

    Couric was the first woman to solo anchor a network evening newscast, serving as anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News from 2006 to 2011 following 15-years as co-anchor of NBC’s Today show. She also hosted a syndicated show and served as the Yahoo Global News Anchor until 2017.

    She has won a duPont-Columbia, a Peabody, two Edward R. Murrows, a Walter Cronkite Award, and multiple Emmys. She was twice named one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people and was a Glamour Magazine woman of the year three times. She has also received numerous awards for her cancer advocacy work; honored by both the Harvard and Columbia schools of public health, the American Cancer Society and The American Association of Cancer Researchers.

    In addition to writing The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, Couric’s newest book and memoir, Going There, was released in October 2021.

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    One of the most personable figures in broadcasting, Katie Couric sits down for a memorable Q&A session. She shares with audiences her insight into the lives of individuals in the news today, the stories behind the headlines and her memorable interviews with the world’s most highly respected figures gleaned from her roles as anchor of the CBS Evening News and NBC’s Today.

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    Katie Couric has courageously and unselfishly promoted the power of prevention to save lives. We all honor her as a public-health hero.

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    Going There

    This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life – a story she’s never shared, until now. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, “Television can put you in a box; the flat-screen can flatten. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. This book is.”

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    Going There

    This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. For more than forty years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious, heartbreaking memoir, she reveals what was going on behind the scenes of her sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life - a story she's never shared, until now. Of the medium she loves, the one that made her a household name, she says, "Television can put you in a box; the flat-screen can flatten. On TV, you are larger than life but smaller, too. It is not the whole story, and it is not the whole me. This book is."
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