She has not been a member of NBC News for six years, but her stint sent shockwaves through the cutthroat morning news world. That legend was revealed to be Meredith Vieira. All of this occurs against the high-pressured backdrop of ratings and money. Both shows make boatloads of money for their respective networks, and each news division takes those ratings extremely seriously.
Journalist Katie Couric , who this week is releasing her new memoir, "Going There," confirmed she no longer has a relationship with former "Today" show colleague Matt Lauer in an appearance on "The View" Monday and discussed her reaction to the allegations made about the former TV host. In November , the disgraced "Today" show anchor was fired after NBC said a colleague accused him of inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.
Lauer has said that he never assaulted anyone or forced anyone to have sex. Out of Couric's 15 years on the morning news show, she spent nine years co-anchoring alongside Lauer. She went on to report for NBC, eventually becoming co-anchor of Today and one of the top personalities in the TV news business. Since early , Couric has served as a global news anchor for Yahoo. Born Katherine Anne Couric, on January 7, , in Arlington, Virginia, Couric was the youngest of four children of John, a retired journalist and public relations executive, and his wife Elinor.
Couric graduated from the University of Virginia in with a degree in American Studies. Right after college, she moved to Washington, D.
Couric's first job was as a desk assistant at ABC, where she worked under anchorman Sam Donaldson, among others. For the next seven years, Couric worked at CNN bureaus around the country as a producer and, when she could, as an on-air reporter. In , she returned to Washington and took a job as a reporter at an NBC affiliate station there.
In , shortly before her marriage to Jay Monahan, a lawyer based in Washington, Couric was hired as the No. Over the next three years, she covered the U. By early , she had begun filling in as co-anchor of Today alongside Bryant Gumbel when Deborah Norville went on maternity leave. In April, NBC executives hired Couric to replace Norville, who had been blamed by some for the show's falling ratings.
Couric was an instant hit with viewers, who related well to her pleasant, charming demeanor and her surprisingly hard-hitting journalistic style. Her comfortable on-screen rapport with Gumbel although the two were famously contentious off-camera proved the key to the show's growing popularity, and in Today surpassed ABC's Good Morning America in the ratings to regain its position as the most-watched morning newsmagazine in the country. Beginning in the summer of , Couric also cohosted another prime-time newsmagazine, Now, with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric.
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