Katie Couric Bio, Family, Career, Husband, Net Worth, Metrics

Katie Couric is an American journalist, presenter, producer and author. Since 1979, when she landed her first job at the ABC News bureau in Washington, D.C. Thereafter, she worked at all three television networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) in the country. She is best known as co-host of NBC’s Today, anchor of CBS Evening News and correspondent for 60 Minutes.

Additionally, she is the founder of a news and multimedia production company called Katie Couric Media. She is also recognized as a guest host of the game show Jeopardy!, the American version hosted by Michel Richards who resigned from the show in 2021, during a pandemic. Want to know more about her, then keep scrolling.

KATIE COURIC: BIO, FAMILY, CAREER

The popular journalist was born on January 7, 1957 as Katherine Anne Couric in Arlington, Virginia, United States. She is the daughter of her parents: Elinor Tullie and John Martin Couric, Jr. Her mother was a homemaker and part-time writer while her father, a public relations officer and editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the United Press in Washington D.C.

His sister Emily Couric (a Democratic state senator from Virginia) died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 54 on October 18, 2001. Couric is of mixed ethnicity with French, English, Scottish and German ancestry and belongs to the American nationality. For her education, she had attended Jamestown Elementary School, Williamsburg Middle School, and Yorktown High School in Arlington County. Following this, she joined the University of Virginia in 1975 where she was a sister of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. In 1979, she earned a bachelor’s degree in American studies from the university.

After graduating, she landed a job at the ABC News bureau in Washington, D.C., then joined CNN as an editor. She worked as a general reporter for CBS affiliate WTVJ in Miami, Florida from 1984 to 1986. She then worked for WRC-TV and won her an Associated Press award and an Emmy at the time. In 1989, she left to join NBC News as an assistant Pentagon correspondent. However, her career peaked when she made her stint on Today from 1991 to 2006.

In 2006, she joined CBS Evening News and became its new anchor and editor for the network’s Evening News. After that, she returned to the ABC News Network in 2011 and has worked for the network ever since. Apart from this, she has also published three books so far.

KATIE COURIC: PERSONAL LIFE AND HUSBAND

The journalist has been married twice but never divorced. In fact, her first husband married attorney John Paul Jay Monahan III, who died of colorectal cancer in 1998 at the age of 42. The couple married in 1989 and welcomed two children from their marriage. She produced her first daughter, Elinor Tully Ellie Monahan on July 23, 1991 in Washington, D.C. Additionally, she had her second daughter, Caroline Carrie on January 5, 1996 in New York.

After several years, she fell in love with her second husband John Molner and dated. After two years in September 2013, they got engaged and then married in a small private ceremony at her home in the Hamptons on June 21, 2014. Additionally, in 2000, she underwent an on-air colonoscopy and is also become an advocate for colon cancer. sensitization.

KATIE COURIC: NET WORTH AND SOCIAL MEDIA PROFILES

When it comes to her income, she has earned a huge amount of money from her career as a journalist. She reportedly earns an estimated $10 million. Moreover, he has an estimated net worth of around $100 million. Sources have reported that she is one of the highest paid female journalists along with famous female journalists like Diane Sawyer, Megyn Kelly and Rachel Maddow .

The journalist has verified and personal accounts on different social media platforms. She has a Facebook account with over 675,000 followers. On Instagram, she has an account @katiecouric with 1.3 million followers. She has a @katiecouric Twitter account with 1.7 million followers.

KATIE COURIC: BODY MEASUREMENTS

The beautiful journalist has an average and healthy body which measures 37-27-38 inches in chest-waist-hips respectively. His body is 5 feet 4 inches or 1.63 meters tall and weighs around 59 kg. She has light blue eye color with blonde hair.