By titli basu | February 26, 2014 0 Comments

Net Worth: $55 million

Career/Profession: Anchorwoman, Journalist

Age: 57

This American television journalist has been a television host on all Big Three television networks in the United States and is mostly known for her long association with the NBC News for years from 1989 to 2006. She has accumulated her net worth through her career as a CBS journalist. Some of her most remembered appearances are as an anchor on television shows like The Today Show, Dateline NBC, CBS Evening News, Katie among many other such shows.

“When I was young”

Katie Couric was born in Arlington, Virginia to Elinor Tullie, a pert time writer and John Martin Couric, who was a public relations executive and news editor. As a high school student, she was an intern at Washington D.C all news radio station, WAVA. She joined her father’s alma matter, the University of Virginia in 1975 and served in several positions at UVA’s award winning newspaper, The Cavalier Daily.

Courie’s first job was in 1979 at the ABC News Bureau and later she joined CNN as an assistant editor. She had also worked as a general assignment reporter for two years from 1984 to 1986. For the next two years she reported for the WRC TV, which earned her an Associated Press award and an Emmy.

Professional Success

Next, Courie joined NBC News in 1989 as the deputy Pentagon Correspondent. For the initial few years she was just a substitute anchor. She filled in for Bryant Gumbel, Jane Pauley, Deborah Norville, Garrick Utley and many others.

In 1989, Couric joined Today as national political correspondent and later became a permanent co anchor of a show alongside Tom Brokaw. Soon her reports began to appear regularly and she was named a contributing anchor. She remained there for fifteen years and then left NBC for joining the CBS to anchor the CBS Evening News, becoming the first solo female anchor of the weekday nightly news broadcasts.

Courie hosted a number of news specials like Everybody’s Business: America’s Children, Legend to Legend Night: A Celebrity Cavalcade, Harry Potter: Behind the Magic. She also co hosted the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games.

Till date, this talented journalist has interviewed many political figures like Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, George W. Bush, First lady Barbara Bush, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy Jr., who also gave Courie his first and last interviews. She also interviewed former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, senator Hillary Clinton in her first television interview, J.K Rowling and many others.

Stint with CBS News

On April 5, 2006, Courie left Today of NBC News. Her first broadcast with the CBS News was scheduled on September 5, 2006. She would also contribute to 60 Minutes and anchor prime time news shows for CBS. This stint with CBS News earned Courie $15 million per year, which made her the highest paid journalist in the world.

The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric won the 2008 and 2009 Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast. On March 2009, Katie Courie was awarded with the Emmy Governor’s Award for her outstanding broadcasting career.

Achievements

Courie was the leader of the CBS News’ coverage of the 2008 Presidential elections and conventions and the 2010 midterm elections. She was also the first network anchor on the ground to cover the 2010 Haiti Earthquake. After the BD Oil spill, she reported from the Gulf Coast weekly. She also reported the Egyptian Revolution in 2011 from Cairo. In April 2011, she again led the CBS News’ coverage from London for the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

The Sarah Palin Interviews with Katie Couric were a series of interviews conducted by Kati Couric in 2008 with Sarah Plain, the Republican vice presidential nominee. Courie received the Walter Cronkite Award for Journalism Excellence for these interviews which were recorded and broadcast on the television in several programmes before the 2008 Presidential Elections.

Present Days

Currently, Couric is a special correspondent for ABC News where her first interview was with Sarah Jessica Parker on Nightline. There she co anchored the coverage of the 10^th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks alon with several other anchors like Diane Sawyer, Christiane Amanpour, Barbara Walters, Elizabeth Vargas, George Stephanopoulos and Robin Roberts. She had also led the 5^th anniversary coverage during her tenure with the CBS News.

Other Ventures

Courie was the voice of the news reporter Katie Current in the US version of the animated film Shark Tale. She had also made a cameo appearance as a prison guard in Austin Powers in Goldmember. She was also a star guest in the CBS sitcom Murphy Brown in 1992 and in the NBC sitcom Will and Grace in 2002.

In April 2011, Couric’s first book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives was published by Random House. The book is a collection of essays compiled by Couric.

Charity

Courie is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for the United States. On October 7, 2005, as a part of National Breast Cancer Awareness month, Courie broadcast her own mammogram on the Today show. She was also very active in the National Hockey League’s Hockey Fights Cancer campaign.

Courie was the honored guest at the 2004 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation fall gala. As the Guest of Honor for the inaugural American Cancer Society Discovery Ball, Couric was recognized for her leadership in increasing cancer awareness and screening. In 2011, Couric became the Honorary National Chair of the National Parkinson Foundation’s Moving Day campaign.

So here’s a journalist with a heart!