Katie Couric makes 'CBS Evening News' departure official
Katie Couric finally has confirmed what we all suspected: She’s leaving “CBS Evening News.”
Because what would this week be without a Kate in the news? Sorry, Middleton. Your time will come on Friday.
In an interview with People magazine, Couric said: “I have decided to step down from the CBS Evening News. I'm really proud of the talented team on the CBS Evening News and the award-winning work we've been able to do in the past five years in addition to the reporting I've done for 60 Minutes and CBS Sunday Morning. In making the decision to move on, I know the Evening News will be in great hands, but I am excited about the future."
Yada yada yada. But where will she find herself next? Couric doesn’t really say -- "I am looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multidimensional storytelling," she said.
Until then, she’s got the royal wedding to cover. See, Middleton!
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Who cares.
Posted by: Public Advocate | April 26, 2011 at 12:18 PM
She has the timing. You want to move on before the ratings start slipping.
Posted by: niki | April 26, 2011 at 12:18 PM
I wanted to see her as a serious newscaster (she obviously is capable), but I couldn't get rid of that "perky" typecast image in my mind from her morning show career. I suspect I'm not the only one.
Posted by: Ome-Coatl | April 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM
CBS Evening News is so 20th Century.
Posted by: Shaun Mason | April 26, 2011 at 12:24 PM
My feeling after posting comments on her CBS Evening News for some time and watching her for several years give us the news is that Katie is a quintessential news person and a delightful lady. I think she will out do her success attained with her next project which may allow her more self expression.
Posted by: Jay Adler | April 26, 2011 at 12:33 PM
So long and good bye! She was horrible doing the news. Glad she is gone.... Our prayers have been answered! Walter Cronkite rest easy.
Posted by: Papi | April 26, 2011 at 12:39 PM
Sorry to see Katie go. But then again, she needed greener pastures and CBS Evening News needs a big shakeup. Dullest, most content free broadcast of the big three, and maybe counting cable news too. If they actually said something worth hearing, they'd have viewers.
Posted by: Tom | April 26, 2011 at 12:50 PM
"I am looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multidimensional storytelling," Look at all the pretentious words here:- "format", "engage", "multidimensional", "storytelling". Does she think her audience is stupid? It's going to be same old same-old. A pretty face who is quite good on TV. Just fluff as far as I am concerned. I never watched her. People want their news from a middle aged man who has gravitas. Sometimes facts are sexist. They remain facts.
Posted by: Neil | April 26, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Although I can't stand her liberal bias, Katie grew on me after a while. She's a lovely and talented gal. I wish her all the best in whatever she does. But Diane Sawyer is -- and will always be -- my favorite.
Posted by: GeraldR5 | April 26, 2011 at 01:13 PM
I watched her when she first came to Today. She was a hack then and I thought I'd be rid of her at some point. Got rid of everyone else but Matt and he's like a male her. Liked CBS evening news until she showed up there. The woman is the Sarah Palin of news broadcasting. Please, make her a war zone reporter!
Posted by: jim devore | April 26, 2011 at 01:17 PM
And not a moment too soon. She's a whiney, annoying, worthless, fawning, softball interviewer.
Posted by: Zonker | April 26, 2011 at 01:18 PM
She's hot!
Posted by: BIG GAME HUNTER 3056 | April 26, 2011 at 01:22 PM
Let me guess????? Could it be...? OPRAH's new network????? That's the only place a person would be able to "engage in more multidimensional storytelling" than the 'Evening News'!
Does that imply that our evening news programs are really one dimensional &, in addition, only stories??? If so, whose dimension? Further, who picks the stories to 'tell'?
Hum? It does make one wonder.
Posted by: kathleen riney | April 26, 2011 at 01:36 PM
Les Moonves strikes out.
Posted by: Stephen J. Smith | April 26, 2011 at 01:58 PM
LOL
CBS Evening News is so 20th Century.
Posted by: schlock | April 26, 2011 at 02:18 PM
It never escaped me how a person could be so self absorbed making $300,000 a week as those in the newsroom, the ones who did the real work, were cast off in the name of budget cuts.
Not many consider Ted Turner much of a journalist, but when he founded CNN over 30 years ago, he proclaimed that there would be no "star" anchors - the news itself would be the star.
He was right then and he is right now.
Posted by: whidbey96 | April 26, 2011 at 02:35 PM
"I am looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multidimensional storytelling..." In other words, an opinion show like Hannity, Levin, etc., that she's been castigating on her "news" show whenever the opportunity arose. Hypocrite.
Posted by: surfcitysocal | April 26, 2011 at 02:39 PM
Who is going to miss her aside from Obama?
Posted by: Harry Jones | April 26, 2011 at 03:16 PM
Couric is just another vicious liberal woman!!!
Posted by: Christy C | April 26, 2011 at 03:17 PM
Incompetent twit hired by some demographics study to begin with, they now need the same thing but in a mixed race version under 30 with a tattoo only the producer gets to see.
Posted by: Chris Kent | April 26, 2011 at 03:43 PM