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Katie Couric has been co-anchor of "Today" since April 5,
1991. She joined the program in June 1990 as its first national correspondent
and then served as substitute co-anchor from February 1991 until becoming
permanent co-anchor. She is also a contributing anchor for "Dateline NBC."
Since joining NBC News in July 1989 as deputy Pentagon
correspondent, Katie Couric has conducted a number of newsworthy interviews. Her
1996 interview with Bob Dole and his wife, Elizabeth, concerning Doles stance on
whether tobacco is addictive, made headlines. Katie Couric also conducted the
first television interview of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the farewell
interview of Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell, Anita Hills first
television interview concerning her allegations of sexual harassment against
Clarence Thomas, and General Norman Schwarzkopfs first interview after the
Persian Gulf War. In October 1992, after an interview with First Lady Barbara
Bush at the White House for the 200th anniversary of the building, Katie Couric
conducted a 20-minute impromptu interview with President Bush.
From 1987 to 1989, Katie Couric was a general-assignment
reporter at WRC-TV, the NBC Television Station in Washington, D.C. While there,
she won an Emmy and an Associated Press Award for her work. From 1984 to 1986,
she was a general-assignment reporter at WTVJ in Miami. She began her career as
a desk assistant for the ABC News bureau in her native Washington, D.C., in
1979. In 1980, she joined CNN as an assignment editor. She moved to Atlanta as
an associate producer and later became the producer of a two-hour news and
information program. She eventually became a political correspondent.
Katie Couric has won two Emmys, an Associated Press Award, a
Matrix Award, a National Headliner Award and the Society of Professional
Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award. She has also received the Washington
Journalism Review Award as Best in the Business and been named one of "Glamour"
magazines Women of the Year.
Katie Couric graduated with honors from the University of
Virginia. She lives in New York with her daughters, Elinor Tully Monahan and
Caroline Couric Monahan.
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