Watch Katie Couric Sign Off of the CBS Evening News for the Final Time
Katie has left the building. After a five-year run as anchor of the CBS Evening News, Katie Couric signed off for the last time this evening.
Will Scott Pelley Replace Katie Couric?
Now that we know who the 2011 NCAA champions are, we can really start to focus on the brackets for Katie Couric's CBS Evening News replacement. And if any of you had 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley as your top pick, TMZ says you're right! Possibly.
Morgan Freeman to Finally Bring Some Dignity to CBS Evening News
God—no, sorry, Morgan Freeman—will replace Walter Cronkite as the guy who introduces Katie Couric with his ghost voice on the CBS Evening News. Did you know...
New, Improved Couric to Be More Cheery, Lady-Friendly
When Katie Couric took over CBS Evening News, everyone thought she would fail. But she hasn't. In fact, she's being praised for her poise, grace and interview style. And now producers want to make her bigger, stronger and more popular.
Walter Cronkite Dead at 92
Walter Cronkite, the longtime CBS News journalist and trusted anchorman, has passed away, his family said. He was 92.
Palin Doesn't Help Couric Ratings
"The CBS Evening News gained only about 10 percent in audience from the previous week — and it was actually down from the same week the year before." [Times]
Palin Reads 'All' Magazines And Newspapers
Sarah Palin spent some more time with Katie Couric, her new undermining roommate, who seems to have accumulated like 20 months worth of interview material, all of it horrifically damaging to the Republican vice presidential nominee. This time around, Palin couldn't name any newspapers or magazines she regularly reads,…
More Couric Disasters Push Palin Back To Safety Of Talk Radio
Sarah Palin just keeps going back for more car-wreck interviews with Katie Couric. After forecasting a possible Great Depression and saying something indecipherable about her state's relations with Russia, the Republican vice presidential nominee reportedly went silent when called on to name Supreme Court cases other…
Worst Of Sarah Palin's Katie Couric Interview (So Far)
The first half of Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric aired tonight and it's already making the wrong sorts of headlines. This is looking a lot like Palin's train wreck sit-down with ABC News' Charlie Gibson. (Video of the most damaging moments — this time around — after the jump.)
Katie Couric Won't Go Cheaply
"If [CBS head] Les Moonves wants to get rid of her, he's got to shell out around $40 million. He's tried to get her to move on, and she was like, 'Fine. I'll leave - where's my money?'" [Post]
Uncensored Katie Couric Is Kind Of Hot
So we were vaguely aware Katie Couric had a YouTube channel, but had no idea the CBS Evening News anchor put so much energy into it. It's almost as though she feels stifled at work! Can't imagine why that would be. Anyway, Los Angeles Times writer Matea Gold watched all the videos so you don't have to, and wrote up…
Television Reporting Is Also "Glamorous"
The sad state of bloggers and Long Island reporters is well-documented. But things are hard out there for TV reporters, too. Covering a flood for CBS News, Hari Sreenivasan nearly got hypothermia after his waders sprung a leak. But who wouldn't sacrifice a leg or two for that shot of a guy knee-deep in water?…
Ben Sherwood Spotted In CBS Early Show Talks
On Friday we asked if former Good Morning America producer Ben Sherwood was in talks about running CBS' Early Show following the departure of disastrous producer Shelley Ross. Since then, TVNewser spoke to "insiders" who said Sherwood talked to CBS executives about the job, and we got a tip that Sherwood was seen last…
Ben Sherwood In CBS Early Show Talks?
Is there any truth to the rumor that former Good Morning America Executive Producer Ben Sherwood is the leading candidate to replace Shelley Ross, who was just fired from the top spot at CBS' "Early Show?" Sherwood, who is married to Imagine Films executive Karen Kehela, is said to be represented in the talks by Alan…
Katie Couric's trip to Iraq resulted in a new record low in the ratings race for "CBS Evening News." Still, there's an upside: "If CBS' hiring of Katie Couric was all about damaging the NBC Today show (rather than boosting the CBS Evening News) it's working. Today 'has lost about 360,000 viewers' in the past year,…
Everybody Talks About The Weather, But CNN Covers The Hell Out Of It
Katie Couric Quite Possibly Leaving CBS News, Unless She's Not, Which Is What CBS News Says
This morning's Philadelphia Inquirer ran a piece by Gail Shister positing that Katie Couric would leave the CBS Evening News anchor chair after the 2008 election. It's a story full of hedges (the first two paragraphs contain a "may," a "possibly," and a "there's a growing feeling") and CBS News was quick to refute it.
Katie Couric Becomes First Female Anchor To Stand In Front Of Desk For 1:27
On Monday night the CBS Evening News experienced some technical difficulties, forcing Katie Couric to stretch her words out and eventually shut the show down early. But, pro that she is, Katie didn't pull a Dan Rather and storm of the set. No, she stood there, for eighty-seven agonizing seconds, interrupted by…
Media Bubble: Tumbleweeds
• If you watched Katie Couric on Monday night you're in a pretty exclusive club. [Drudge Report]
• The publisher and editor of the Toronto Star have resigned. [NYT]
• There's a new head at Metro. [FBNY]
• The F.C.C. makes Sumner Redstone crap his Depends. [B&C]
• Louise MacBain sounds like a real pleasure to work…
