Who is former Today show host, Katie Couric?

LONGTIME journalist Katie Couric is one of the highest-paid news personalities in media.

On September 28, 2022, Couric revealed she has been fighting breast cancer since late June.

Who is former Today show host Katie Couric?

Katie Couric has been working in news since 1979, when she landed her first job at the ABC News bureau in Washington, DC.

She later joined CNN as an assignment editor and worked for stations in Miami and DC.

Couric joined NBC News in 1989 as a deputy pentagon correspondent and also served as an anchor substitute. 

That same year she joined Today as a national political correspondent, becoming a substitute co-host in February 1991.

She left Today in 2006 and became anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News.

Two years later, her show, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, won the 2008 and 2009 Edward R Murrow Award for best newscast.

She announced her departure from the evening news in 2011 when her contract with the network expired.

Couric returned to ABC as a special correspondent but only for two years.

She was then hired at Yahoo! as Global Anchor of Yahoo! News and worked there until 2017.

In 2019, she served as executive producer on Netflix's true crime miniseries, Unbelievable, and in 2021, she served as a substitute host of Jeopardy! following the death of Alex Trebek.

The journalist made history as the first female host of the show since its release.

What is Couric's net worth?

Couric has a reported net worth of $110million, according to .