Katie Couric

Personal context

Summary

Katie Couric is a journalist, television anchor, and producer known for Today, the CBS Evening News, and documentaries including Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric and America Inside Out. Her reporting and documentary work has returned to gender, media representation, and social issues. Couric has called for greater representation of women and people of color in media, criticized the pace of change after #MeToo, and said diversity matters at her company; she also voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. She co-founded Stand Up to Cancer and established the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, a public health advocacy record centered on cancer research and awareness.