ABOUT
KATIE COURIC
Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist and #1 New York Times best-selling author of the memoir Going There. She is a co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), which has raised more than $700 million to support cutting-edge collaborative science and contributed to nine new FDA-approved therapies. In 2024, she founded Barolo Films as an extension of Katie Couric Media (KCM).
Couric was the first solo female anchor of 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. She also hosted the syndicated talk show Katie from 2012 to 2014 and served as Yahoo's global news anchor until 2017.
She has won a duPont-Columbia Award, a Peabody Award, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, a Walter Cronkite Award, and multiple Emmy Awards. She's also been honored by both the Harvard and Columbia schools of public health, the American Cancer Society, and The American Association of Cancer Researchers.