Video Pick: Katie Couric’s Conversation With Betty White
They talk about animals, comedy and growing older.
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Big Changes on TV Channels: Katie Couric, Mary Hart, Oprah Winfrey and Meredith Vieira
Four women we've come to know on television take different paths.
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Katie Couric: Our Nellie Bly
By Chris Lombardi
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With all the talk about Couric's departure from the CBS Evening News, few have really acknowledged her stealth strengths, or the glass ceiling Couric melted with that disarming smile.
Katie Couric and Gloria Steinem: Feminism Doesn’t Mean “The End of Men” (VIDEO)
When The Atlantic titles a cover story "The End of Men," they'll get a flurry of reactions in the media, and they have. Last week, Katie Couric talked with Gloria Steinem and Women's Media Center's Jehmu Greene about what it all means.
In Crisis, Campbell Brown, Katie Couric, Barbara Ehrenreich Speak Truth to Power
A spoonful of sugar helps the hard truth come out? Recent weeks have seen surprising resurgences for women broadcasters most of us had dismissed for being confined to lifestyle stories. CNN’s Campbell Brown, 40, has recently grilled campaign spokespersons from both parties by sweetly refusing incomplete answers. Meanwhile, the much-slammed 51-year-old Katherine Anne Couric has, in the words of Radar…
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News Mix: Sexism Goes Mainstream, and a Video Shows Us Mad as Hell; Skipping Menopauseland; Katie Couric’s Voyage with CBS; Support for New Mothers Over 40 …
It’s Now Mainstream to be Sexist: “We have only begun to feel the damage of the punch-and-pummel pundits who couldn’t wrap their limited minds around the first woman to win a presidential primary, again and again,” writes columnist Connie Schultz, who calls the video, “Hillary Clinton: Mad as Hell,” “required viewing for anyone who claims that gender has not played…
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News Mix: Jane Pauley on Katie Couric; EMILY’s List Blasts NARAL for Obama Endorsement; Karen Bass, First Black Woman to Be Assembly Speaker; Sandra Day O’Connor Makes Plea for Alzheimer’s Aid; Gender Gap in Retirement Savings …
Jane Pauley on Katie Couric: Jane Pauley, the former "Today" and "Dateline" host and first woman to anchor the evening news in Chicago in 1975, was reluctant to comment about Katie Couric’s anchor role at CBS but gave in: "The news business — nobody knows where the industry is or where it is going," she said. "It was a brave…
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News Mix: Viewers Still Like Katie Couric; Overdue Honor for Sportswriter Mary Garber; Oxygen to End “Talk Sex”; Mother’s Day and the Empty Nest; Embracing “Slow Medicine”
Viewers Still Like Couric: “Viewers aren’t pushing for Katie Couric to leave the CBS anchor chair, but if she did, they would like to see her back on her former turf — a morning news show such as NBC’s Today, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll,” reports USA Today. CBS had hoped Couric, a newswoman with a strong following…
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Does it Matter if Katie Couric Leaves CBS?
In a word, yes. We can’t resist weighing in on the reports that Couric will leave CBS after January, with two years left on her contract. From the beginning of her Evening News tenure in 2006, Couric has been a target for ridicule and criticism. A few women spoke up passionately in her defense, such as Greta Van Susteren in…
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News Mix: Meg Whitman Joins McCain; Older Men Not Watching Katie Couric; Laura Linney as Abigail Adams; Studying Connections Between Breast Cancer and Neighborhood Conditions
Meg Whitman Joins McCain: Meg Whitman, eBay Inc.’s outgoing chief executive officer, is stepping in to co-chair Sen. John McCain’s national presidential campaign, with a focus on financing and policy development. Whitman, 51, joined eBay in 1998, turning it into a Fortune 500 company with nearly $8 billion in revenue. She previously worked as a fund-raiser for Massachusetts Gov. Mitt…
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News Mix: Hillary Clinton Wins Big; Women Left Out of Peace Talks; Starbucks Friendship Yields Health Benefits; Review of “How Not to Look Old”; Katie Couric and More
Clinton Takes Three: Sen. Hillary Clinton came back strong Tuesday night to win Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island. Here’s more from Washington Post, which yesterday ran a front-page story on what Clinton’s candidacy represents for some women. Today Ruth Marcus looks at the “force of gender” in Clinton’s campaign. Women’s eNews gets reaction from women’s rights leaders. The New York…
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News Mix: Murders in Mexico; Katie Couric’s First Year; Films Directed by Women; and More on Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women
Kristal Brent Zook of the Women’s Media Center reports on the rape and murder of women in a Mexican border city. Despite the ongoing violence, which has received international condemnation and attention from activists such as Jane Fonda, Selma Hayek, Eve Ensler and Sally Field, Mexico’s president is planning to dismantle a federal commission created for “the prevention and eradication…
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Newsflash: Couric Wins Cronkite Award
The award was named for “Uncle Walter,” but last night belonged to the most influential woman in the nightly news. At the Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern California, CBS News managing editor Katie Couric won a Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign. The awards jury honored Couric for her “extraordinary, persistent and detailed…
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News Mix:Couric and CBS Snag Big Award; Times’ NYTimes’ Jane Gross Blogs For Boomers and Aging Parents; Four-Star General Cheered by Peers; Your Resume Can Look Younger; Michelle Obama’s Staying Power; Ashley Judd Listens in the Congo
CBS Women Knock One Out of the Park: Despite a year that threatened to usher Katie Couric, 51, out of the anchor chair at CBS News, she and her team won the Edward R. Murrow Award yesterday, for their August 9 broadcast and for continued coverage of the war in Iraq. In a statement, CBS Evening News Executive Producer Rick…
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Clinton, Couric and Chris Matthews’ Sexist Spin
by Gloria Feldt When it comes to Chris Matthews’s interpretation of Hillary Clinton’s words — any of her words –she’s damned if she yays and damned if she nays. After gloating that a new poll found Clinton losing in a match-up with any one of five Republican presidential candidates, Matthews later in the same program spun her Nov. 26 interview…
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