Katie Couric (@katiecouric) 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.
In addition to writing The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, Couric is the author of two books for children.
"I zipped through this memoir, only slowing down for some cleverly
interspersed news clips and the occasional outburst of singing. I
found Couric's sensitive descriptions of her bouts with family loss
thoughtful and moving; her honest forthrightness about her
sometimes lopsided work experiences gripping and
delicious."--Marshall Heyman, Vulture (NYMag)
"There is no relentless people-pleasing in her fearlessly frank
memoir, a wildly entertaining and often emotional ride through the
volatile media landscape of the last 40 years in which no subject
is off limits...she was in a class of her own...Being described as
"perky" and "America's Sweetheart" overshadowed her real
accomplishments as a journalist capable of hard-hitting interviews.
It also made her a favorite target for the tabloids and the long
lenses of paparazzi. This much hasn't changed: Couric has been
pilloried in the press over early leaks of "Going There,"
...understandable she would want to protect her turf; every woman
who made a strong impression at NBC News was touted by the press as
a replacement...Despite early reports, Couric doesn't really go
over the top in her critiques of former colleagues at NBC. The
brunt of her barbs are aimed at CBS. If you're a producer or
executive who worked with her there and don't see your name in the
index of "Going There," consider yourself extremely
fortunate...Couric also provides a deftly written tick-tock on her
reaction to the downfall of her longtime co-anchor Matt Lauer. It's
compassionate without excusing his behavior, to which she was
admittedly oblivious when she worked with him. But civilians who
read "Going There" will be most transfixed by Couric's raw and
unvarnished account of losing her first husband, attorney Jay
Monahan, to colon cancer at the age of 42."
--Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times
"Longtime 'Today' co-anchor Couric, once known as 'America's
Sweetheart, ' shows that she's really 'America's Role Model' in a
frank, funny memoir about her journey from Arlington, Va., high
school cheerleader to a leading voice for cancer research as well
as first-rank investigative journalist. Some superstar books can be
skipped; this one shouldn't be."--Bethanne Patrick, The Washington
Post
"The book is a lot of things: a very juicy autobiography, full of
sex and gossip and bizarre celebrity encounters and familial
revelation, as well as an account of the rampant misogyny within
the industry in which Couric rose. Like Couric herself, it is
surprisingly spiky and weird and seemingly committed to absolute
chaos. It is the work of someone who, if not ready to fully analyze
her place in often-abusive hierarchies, is curious enough about
those hierarchies to lay out her experiences in ways that are not
flattering, either to the news business or to herself...A celebrity
tell-all that by its nature should have been interesting only to
Couric's longtime fans [but] turns out to be a startling and
capacious historic document."--Rebecca Traister, NYMag (The
Cut)
"Funny, sincere, heartbreaking -- Couric chronicles her upbringing,
career in TV journalism, cutthroat pressures and boys club hazing
of the biz, the downfall of her co-anchor Matt Lauer, as well as
the death of her husband at the young age of 42 and finding love
again. Looking for a new BFF? You'll find one here."
--Lesley Kennedy, CNN
"Going There is jam-packed with honesty, humor, and helpful advice
for every woman blazing her own path. I admired Katie Couric
before, but after reading Going There, I absolutely love her. When
you read about the real Katie in these pages, you will
too."--Glennon Doyle, author of the #1 bestseller Untamed and host
of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast
"The woman we've counted on for decades to tell the most important
stories of our time is finally telling her own. And nothing is off
the record. This no-holds-barred account of Katie's rise to TV
fame--while juggling motherhood, crushing loss, and brushes with
failure--delivers on its title. She writes with a raw honesty and
been-there-lived-that sensibility that every woman on the rise will
benefit from. Brimming with heart and sheer grit, it's a
masterclass in resilience and overcoming every obstacle on the way
to success."--Elaine Welteroth, bestselling author and
award-winning journalist
"Couric's actual living voice--one of the most human and wise of
our times--is on every single line of this memoir, but "memoir" is
reductive. This is memoir as time capsule, memoir as therapy
session, memoir as masterpiece. Memoir as Necessity. It is
aggressively, gorgeously human, the very book we needed for this
time. You will feel thankful, as though Katie Couric has been an
angel on your shoulder, she's been with you this whole time, and
now, thank God, she's ready to show you the other side."--Lisa
Taddeo, bestselling author of Three Women
"Fast-paced and riveting, Going There is an intimate memoir that
chronicles the once magical world of TV news. Every young woman
should read this book to understand what ambition really feels like
and the work it takes to fulfill it."--Tina Brown
"The secret to Katie Couric's success is that there are no secrets.
While the dogged determination she has called upon her whole life
is an invaluable asset, there are other ingredients in Katie's
not-so-secret sauce: humor, concern, sincerity, steadfastness, and
devotion to her daughters, family, and friends. If Katie is "going
there," no matter where "there" is, we're along for the
ride."--Michael J. Fox, bestselling author of No Time Like the
Future
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