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Katie Couric

Biography

Katie Couric

Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist, New York Times bestselling author and a​ co-​founder of Stand ​Up To Cancer (SU2C). Since its launch in 2008, Stand Up To Cancer has raised more than $600 million to support cutting-edge collaborative science and its research has contributed to six new FDA approved therapies. 

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.  

Katie Couric

Books by Katie Couric

by Katie Couric - Memoir, Nonfiction

For more than 40 years, Katie Couric has been an iconic presence in the media world. In her brutally honest, hilarious and 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.”