Posted on 04/26/2011 12:23:26 PM PDT by Justaham
After weeks of widespread speculation about her future, Katie Couric is finally ready to go on the record.
"I have decided to step down from the CBS Evening News," Couric tells PEOPLE exclusively. "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."
What's next for the 32-year broadcast veteran? "I am looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling," she says, adding that other details, including when and where the show will air, are "still being discussed."
As she launches the next phase of her career and her new book, The Best Advice I Ever Got: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, she is also juggling exclusive interviews with astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, as well as British Prime Minister David Cameron – and she's covering the royal wedding.
"The bottom line is that I love doing all kinds of different stories," says Couric, 54. "I have a lot of areas of interest and I want to be able to fulfill all of that."
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
and in other news... my grass is going in the backyard
Katie needs to head back to the casting couch where she’s done her career the most good.
Sorry, Sweetmeat, they’re leaving you.
When she decided on her very first broadcast to feature the birth of Suri Cruise, it was over for her. She turned the CBS Evening News into “Entertainment Tonight.”
Say what you will about Walter Cronkite, but would he have mentioned Suri Cruise? I don’t think so.
Frankly I thought we’d be seeing her grave on the back of the evening news set, before we would see her choose to leave, EVER.
This is what, since her 30th day on the job overdue?
You’ve really got to wonder what drives corporate decisions some times.
From CBS News being the recognized leader, to Katie Couric. Does it get more pathetic than that?
Those pictures are so disgusting. Was she so drunk that she really believed herself to be ... (gag) sexy?? Or was she constipated?
Please all you Freepers with these pics....THROW THEM AWAY!! DELETE..DELETE..DELETE!!
I said when she got the job that she was the wrong person for the position and would bomb.
WHOA....Now THIS is big news.
Frankly I thought we’d be seeing her grave on the back of the evening news set, before we would see her choose to leave, EVER.
This is what, since her 30th day on the job overdue?
You’ve really got to wonder what drives corporate decisions some times.
From CBS News being the recognized leader, to Katie Couric. Does it get more pathetic than that?
Perhaps they can get PeeWee Herman. Even that would be an improvement.
I need some Helen Thomas pics for eyewash after seeing those.
If an anchor resigns from a network and a news show that nobody watches, does anyone care? I certainly don’t give a flying flip. She can go piss up a rope for all I care.
I am looking at a format that will allow me to engage in more multi-dimensional storytelling,
I though all libs were looking for that storytelling format - what’s new about that;)
A “couric” is an international unit of fecal weight.
She’s going to study to fill her life’s passion, and become a Proctologist.
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