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She is founder of Katie Couric Media, a multimedia news and production company.

Katie Couric is an award-winning journalist and TV personality, well-known cancer advocate, documentary film producer, and New York Times best-selling.

She also publishes a daily newsletter, Wake Up Call. From to , she was Yahoo's Global News Anchor. Couric has been a television host at all of the Big Three television networks in the United States, and in her early career she was an assignment editor for CNN. She was the first solo female anchor of a major network CBS evening news program. In , she appeared as a guest host for the game show Jeopardy!

In , Couric was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Her mother was Jewish , and converted to Presbyterianism before the marriage. Couric's maternal grandparents, Bert Hene and Clara L. Frohsin, were the children of Jewish emigrants from Germany. Couric's father had French , English , Scottish , and German ancestry. She was raised Presbyterian.

She enrolled at her father's alma mater, [ 13 ] the University of Virginia , in , and was a Delta Delta Delta sorority sister. From to , Couric was an anchor substitute. Couric returned to NBC to co-host the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies with Mike Tirico , and to provide additional Winter Olympic coverage and athlete interviews.

During the opening ceremony she suggested, erroneously, that the Dutch use their skates as a normal mode of transportation during wintertime, prompting criticism and bemusement from the U. Embassy in the Netherlands and others.