Latest Katie Couric Stories
By Frazier Moore NEW YORK - Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams have something in common besides their jobs: Each has lost loved ones to cancer - which gives them something in common with nearly everybody. The evening news anchors are planning to join dozens of A-list entertainers and sports figures on "Stand Up to Cancer," a live, one- hour special being simulcast at 8 p.m. Friday on ABC, CBS and NBC, as well as cable's E! Entertainment channel. Besides seeking contributions...
By Mike Pearson It's Friday morning and you've survived the Democratic National Convention. It wasn't the root canal you expected, but it wasn't a $200 lap dance either. The past four days seem like a hallucination of religious revivalism and apocalyptic brooding. Under normal circumstances, a collision of such disparate people - protesters, politicians, delegates and TV anchor persons with hair that didn't move for 72 hours - would rip a hole in the space-time continuum. Somehow, it all...
By MATEA GOLD By Matea Gold and James Rainey Los Angeles Times ST. PAUL, Minn. The television networks and national cable news outlets Sunday shifted their top talent and reporters from the Republican National Convention here to the Gulf region to prepare for Hurricane Gustav's landfall. That means John McCain and his campaign will not receive the uninterrupted attention that Barack Obama did during last week's Democratic National Convention. News executives - much like the presumed...
By Brian Stelter When Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party's nomination on Thursday before a capacity audience of 70,000 at Invesco Field in Denver, an aerial camera will hover above the stadium turf, using a TV technique normally applied at football games. The special camera angle - and CNN's decision to spend close to $100,000 on it - shows the steps U.S. networks are willing to take to compete for viewers as the presidential campaigns move into the autumn. Even at a time of steep...
By Brian Stelter When Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party nomination for president on Thursday before a capacity audience of 70,000 at Invesco Field, in Denver, an aerial camera will hover above the stadium turf, using a television technique normally applied at football games. The special camera angle - and CNN's decision to spend close to $100,000 on it - shows the steps that U.S. networks are willing to take to compete for viewers as the presidential campaigns move into the autumn....
By Bruce Schwartz For the past two weeks, NBC was the only Games in town. But the next two weeks bring a game all the networks can play: politics. The Democrats gather today in Denver; the Republicans, next week in St. Paul. And each news organization will use all the tools and platforms at its disposal -- from Web to mobile reports, to radio and digital TV channels, to live blogs and Twitters -- to reach an audience. But in terms of TV air time, coverage is the same as it has been:...
By DAVID BAUDER By David Bauder The Associated Press NEW YORK As the red light switched off and her program went into a commercial, Laura Ingraham's face dissolved from a smile into a frown - then, a look of pure disgust. In a nine-minute video clip of on-set behavior at Fox News Channel, Ingraham radiates hate at everyone around her. There's a word misspelled on her teleprompter, her script makes no sense, a stranger hanging around annoys her, a producer is talking too loudly in her...
NEW YORK, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- More than a dozen of the world's most accomplished female recording artists -- a cast that includes Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, Keyshia Cole, Ciara, Leona Lewis, LeAnn Rimes, and Carrie Underwood -- have joined together for "Just Stand Up," an unprecedented charity single in support of Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a new initiative to raise philanthropic...
Interpolls, a leading rich media technology company, announced today that it has contributed its creative services and integrated online marketing technologies to help promote Stand Up To Cancer. Stand Up To Cancer is a new non-profit initiative founded to raise philanthropic funds to accelerate groundbreaking research on cancer and further expand the tools available to fight it. Interpolls is helping to raise awareness for the initiative and drive traffic to the official Stand Up To...
By Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, Minneapolis Aug. 6--Add one of Minnesota's own to the list of notables who can't keep straight exactly where the Republicans will convene their national convention next month. First, CBS News anchor Katie Couric mistakenly said on the air last week that "the mother of all appearances will be in Minneapolis in September -- when McCain accepts his party's nomination." On Monday night, Couric 'fessed up to her mistake and expressed "apologies to the people of...
