In November 2013, Yahoo hired high-profile TV news anchor Katie Couric to be its “global anchor,” a nebulous position that company CEO Marissa Mayer said would involve “being the face of Yahoo News and shooting features for our homepage.” Couric was compensated handsomely for the deal, receiving $6 million per year,…
The Meredith Vieira Show will soon end its second season on NBC, which is surprising to no one. Daytime talk shows don’t have a long shelf life these days. Have we finally lost our appetite for mediocre TV?
Celebrities love to go on talk shows and brag about the pranks they’ve pulled on other celebrities. Usually, these pranks are charming and harmless. Not so, this time.
That there image above is a screenshot of Katie Couric, noted talk show host, and Sonny Moore, noted dance music producer, just cutting a hot new EDM track together in the stu. Chill.
Roughly a year and a half ago, Yahoo dot com hired Katie Couric to do some stuff for them. Since then, Couric has landed some high-profile interviews, which has apparently warranted her a pay bump from $6 million a year to $10 million a year, despite the lack of originality in her content or an indication that a lot…
In today’s Tweet Beat, Martha Stewart and Mr. T take the perfect photo, Taylor Swift admires her fans and Katie Couric is has been introduced to social media stalking.
It may have looked like every celebrity in the country paid thousands of dollars to watch two bad men slug each other over the weekend, but at least one didn’t show up. Katie Couric and her husband John Molner arrived in Las Vegas with tickets to the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight, but flew back to New York before it even…
In an interview this week with world softball-question champion Katie Couric, two-time loser Mitt "Mittens" Romney says he's not running for president again because it doesn't "feel right." He also doesn't believe that "binders full of women" lost him any votes, although he does wish "I would have said that…
In today's Tweet Beat, I would also like someone to answer Chelsea Peretti's questions, Jaden Smith makes some sense and Katie Couric's glam squad is revealed.
In today's Tweet Beat, Katie Couric has found the solution to the worst winter of your life, Mia Farrow is such a mom and it's over Blake, it's over.
In today's Tweet Beat, make all the Bill Cosby jokes you want around Mia Farrow, Katie Couric makes new friends, and Lena Dunham is carefree.
"Katie Couric on Diane Sawyer: 'I Wonder Who She Blew This Time'" reads one headline. "HATE-Y COURIC" proclaims another. Not to be outdone: "EXCLUSIVE: Betrayal, jealousy, and bitterness: New book reveals the vicious rivalry between Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters - and how Diane ran newsroom like an imperial court…
In today's Tweet Beat, Louis C.K. has Tweeters block, Chelsea Peretti needs to trademark "yuppie handcuffs" and did Katie Couric not get today's Nick Jonas memo, girl HELLO?
Baby North West turned one yesterday, and Kimye decided to celebrate in an intimate gathering. LOLOLOL NO.
Sheila Weller's book The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour—and the (Ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV isn't even out yet and it's being used by media outlets to tear down the very women the book covers. This is especially rough to watch given that the point of the…
In January, Katie Couric received a fair amount of criticism for her fixation on the physical part of transgender actress and activist Laverne Cox's transition. On Tuesday, Cox returned to the program and the two discussed what a "teachable" moment their original exchange was.
Later this year, when Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie goes on maternity leave, there will be an empty chair at the table on the morning show.
Self magazine is having a rough week dealing with the fall out from their decision to inadvertently make fun of women running a marathon in tutus who were battling cancer. That struggle was made very clear on Katie Tuesday, during an interview with one of the women at the receiving end of their criticism, Monika…
The Taylor Swift gang — of fans? — do not forgive and forget. To make that clear, they took to Twitter to eviscerate Golden Globe hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler for attacking their idol.
Yesterday on Katie, Katie Couric hosted trans activists Laverne Cox (of Orange Is the New Black) and Carmen Carrera (the model most famous from her stint on RuPaul's Drag Race). The women's discussion on trans issues was productive and eye-opening, but not without the occasional — and major — misstep.
