Katie Couric Biography
Katie Couric is a journalist, presenter, producer, and author from the United States. Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company, was founded by her. She also has a daily newsletter called Wake Up Call.
Katie Couric Age
Couric is 65 years old as of 2022. She was born Katherine Anne “Katie” Couric on 7 January 1957 in Arlington County, Virginia, United States.
Katie Couric Height and Weight
Couric stands at a height of 5 feet and 4 inches (160 cm). She weighs 59 kg.
Katie Couric Education
Couric attended Arlington Public Schools, where she was a cheerleader at Jamestown Elementary, Williamsburg Middle School, and Yorktown High School. She interned at Washington, D.C.’s all-news radio station WAVA as a high school student. She enrolled as a Delta Delta Delta sorority sister at her father’s alma mater, the University of Virginia, in 1975.
Couric worked at UVA’s award-winning daily newspaper, The Cavalier Daily, in a variety of capacities. Couric was chosen as Senior Resident (SR) of The Lawn, the heart of Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village, during her fourth year at UVA. She earned a bachelor’s degree in American studies in 1979.
Katie Couric Family
Couric is the daughter of homemaker Elinor Tullie (née Hene) and part-time writer John Martin Couric, Jr., a public relations executive and news editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington, D.C. Her mother was Jewish before converting to Presbyterianism prior to the marriage.
Bert Hene and Clara L. Frohsin, Couric’s maternal grandparents, were the children of Jewish emigrants from Germany. Couric’s father hailed from France, England, Scotland, and Germany. She grew up as a Presbyterian. In a report for Today, she traced her patrilineal ancestry back to a French orphan who immigrated to the United States in the nineteenth century and became a cotton broker.
Katie Couric First Husband
In 1989, Couric married attorney John Paul “Jay” Monahan III. On July 23, 1991, she gave birth to their first daughter, Elinor Tully “Ellie” Monahan, in Washington, D.C.; on January 5, 1996, Caroline “Carrie” Monahan was born in New York City. Her husband died of colorectal cancer in 1998, when he was 42 years old. This demonstrates how a well-known individual can draw attention and support to worthy causes.”
Katie Couric Current Husband
After a two-year relationship, she became engaged to financier John Molner in September 2013. On June 21, 2014, Couric married Molner in a small, private ceremony at her home in The Hamptons. The two appear in the Sur La Table website’s online cooking series Full Plate with Katie & John.
Katie Couric Daughters
Couric has two daughters; Ellie Monahan, a TV writer born on 23 July 1991 in Washington, D.C., United States, and Caroline Couric Monahan who was born on 5 January 1996 in New York, New York, the United States from her marriage with Jay Monahan.
Katie Couric NBC
Couric began her career at NBC News in 1989 as the Deputy Pentagon Correspondent. Couric worked as an anchor substitute from 1989 to 1991. She replaced Bryant Gumbel as Today’s host; Jane Pauley and Deborah Norville as Today’s co-anchors; Boyd Matson, Garrick Utley, Mary Alice Williams, and Maria Shriver as Sunday Today’s co-hosts; and Connie Chung, Bob Jamieson, John Palmer, Deborah Norville, Faith Daniels, Margaret Larson, and Ann Curry as anchors of the former NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise. She also filled in for Daniels, Norville, and John Palmer as Today’s news anchor.
Couric returned to NBC to co-host the opening ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics with Mike Tirico, as well as to provide additional Winter Olympic coverage and athlete interviews. During the opening ceremony, she incorrectly suggested that the Dutch use their skates like a normal mode of transportation during the winter, eliciting criticism and amusement from the US Embassy in the Netherlands and others. Couric apologized for her intended compliment not “coming out,” which the Embassy accepted and invited her to the Netherlands for a tour.
Katie Couric Today
She became the first solo female anchor of the “big three” weekday evening newscasts in 1994. On May 31, 2006, she announced her departure from CBS to anchor the Evening News. For 14 years on Today, she hosted the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Throughout her career, Couric has won numerous television reporting awards, including the prestigious Peabody Award for her series Confronting Colon Cancer. She has also co-hosted the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games since the Summer Olympics in 2000.
Couric has conducted interviews with many international political figures and celebrities, including Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George H. W. Bush, as well as First Lady Barbara Bush. Couric’s first and final interviews were conducted by John F. Kennedy Jr.
Katie Couric Cancer
Couric became an advocate for colon cancer awareness. In March 2000, she had a colonoscopy on-air, and according to a 2003 study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, she may have inspired many others to get checked as well: “In two different data sets, Katie Couric’s televised colon cancer awareness campaign was temporarily associated with an increase in colonoscopy use.”
Katie Couric Show
On June 6, 2011, ABC announced that Couric had signed a record US$40 million contract with the company and that she would begin hosting a daytime talk show for its Disney-ABC Domestic Television arm in September 2012; Couric would also contribute to ABC News programming. Couric’s talk show would be called Katie, it was announced on August 22, 2011. Katie is Couric’s second web show, the first being @katiecouric on the CBS Evening News. On September 10, 2012, the first episode aired.
Couric has integrated her ABC News Division affiliation with her ABC Daytime show by having news colleagues Christiane Amanpour, Deborah Roberts, Mike Boettcher, Matt Gutman, Richard Besser, Marci Gonzalez, Jim Avila, Dan Abrams, Josh Elliott, Brian Ross, ABC News weather anchors Sam Champion and Ginger Zee, and ABC World News anchors Diane Sawyer and David Muir correspond on Katie for major news events. Couric’s domestic affiliation has included The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg, Kelly Ripa, and Michael Strahan of Live! with Kelly and Michael, as well as some members of the General Hospital cast.
Katie has been renewed for a second season by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, which will begin in the fall of 2013. However, The Hollywood Reporter reported in October 2013 that Katie was on the verge of cancellation due to a low Q Score, low ratings, and a reported disdain for her core female audience. During its first season, the syndicated show averaged a 1.7 household rating and a 1.8 in the 2013–14 season. Katie was canceled by Disney–ABC Domestic Television in December of 2013. Production was supposed to last until June 2014.
Katie Couric Books
- 2000 – The Brand New Kid
- 2004 -The Blue Ribbon Day
- 2011 – The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons From Extraordinary Lives
- 2021 – Going There. New York: Little, Brown, and Company
Katie Couric Movies and TV Shows
- 2021 – Jeopardy!
- 2018 – America Inside Out With Katie Couric
- 2017 – Charlie Rose
- Katie – 2014
- 2003 – The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
- 2003 – ADL Honors Abe Foxman
- 2003 – When Families Grieve
- 2003 – Katie Couric: ‘All Access’ Grammy Special
- 2019 – Unbelievable
- 2018 – Scraps: Parts Uneaten
- 2009 – The Ellen DeGeneres Show
