Katie Couric
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1,593 appearances
16 recordings
11 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 Jun
Katie Couric’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It can just be sort of like an early warning system saying, and you know what?
The thing is, if I had been thrust into a situation and made to cover certain stories, I wouldn't have been ready.
And in a weird way, he did me a great favor by saying, you're not ready for this.
And that as a result, I went and I worked in local news.
I covered, you know, bodies and trunks in Miami and drug deals gone bad.
And, you know, I interviewed Ray Charles in Atlanta.
I did.
I think I even...
Did I interview Boy George?
Yeah.
All these different people.
And I did a whole variety of work.
So and then I covered the Pentagon, which was really a challenge because I didn't have my dad was in the Navy, but I didn't have this great military expertise.
But what happened was I worked really hard.
And when this opportunity to anchor The Today Show came along, it was like I was ready.
I was seasoned and I had confidence and the experience.
What Malcolm Gladwell says, you have to do anything for 10,000 hours to become good at it.
And in a weird way, I think it can be really motivated when you're told you're not good enough.
I have another funny story.
My news director, who I really like and who hates this story, when I was at WRC at the NBC station in Washington, I asked if I could anchor because I was just like this little street reporter and I was, you know, very aggressive, little street reporter running around D.C.
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