Katie Couric Net Worth

Net Worth:	$110 Million
Date of Birth:	January 7, 1957 (67 years old)
Gender:	Female
Height:	5 ft (1.54 m)
Profession:	Television producer, Actor, Film Producer, Journalist, TV Journalist, Author, and Newscaster
Nationality:	United States of America

What is Katie Couric’s Net Worth and Salary?

Katie Couric is an American Journalist, Newscaster, and Actress who has a net worth of $110 million. After working on numerous high-profile news programs throughout her career, she has established herself as a respected journalist. She has also served as the host of her own talk program, Katie.

Childhood

Katherine Anne Couric was brought into this world in Arlington, Virginia, on the 7th of January 1957. She was raised in a Presbyterian household even though her mother was Jewish.

For a number of journalistic companies, Katie’s father served as an editor. Katie Couric worked as an intern for Washington, D.C.-based radio station WAVA while still in high school and joined the cheerleading squad.

While attending the University of Virginia in 1975, Couric began working for the student newspaper. She obtained her American Studies bachelor’s degree in 1979.

Early Career

Katie Couric started working at ABC News as soon as she graduated. As an assignment editor, she then joined CNN. She got her first serious taste of reporting in the middle of the 1980s while working for a Miami, Florida, local TV news network.

Katie later worked for a Washington, D.C.-area TV news network operated by NBC, where she won an Associated Press Award and an Emmy.

The Today Show and NBC

Katie’s career as a television anchor started in the 1990s. She started out as a Pentagon correspondent for NBC News but quickly moved up to fill in as an anchor.

She demonstrated her abilities and potential by filling in for anchors on programs including Today, NBC Nightly News, and NBC News at Sunrise.

Katie joined Today as a permanent co-anchor in 1991. Later, she was a Dateline NBC anchor. Couric also served as the host of various news specials in the 1990s.

In the year 2000, she began hosting the Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies as well.

CBS

Katie Couric revealed in 2006 that she would be leaving NBC to anchor the news for CBS. She then rose to the positions of anchor and managing editor for CBS Evening News.

In addition, she frequently hosted different CBS reports. Although the decision was viewed as a win for Couric and CBS, the network was still lagging behind the evening news programs carried by NBC and ABC.

Nevertheless, after arriving, Couric raised CBS’s ratings. Katie covered important news items while working for CBS, including the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the BP oil spill, the presidential elections in 2006, and the royal wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William.

She conducted interviews with notable people such as Glenn Beck, Michelle Obama, Daniel Radcliffe, Justin Bieber, and many others in addition to Sarah Palin, who is one of her most well-known encounters from 2008.

Acting

Over the years, Katie Couric has played a variety of acting roles. She provided the voice for “Katie Current” in the animated movie Shark Tale in 2007. She also had a brief appearance in Goldmember’s Austin Powers.

On television shows like General Hospital, Murphy Brown, Glee, Pawn Stars, and Will & Grace, Katie Couric frequently plays cameo appearances.

Katie has also narrated or hosted a number of documentaries. Fed Up, Under the Gun, and America Inside Out With Katie Couric are a few of these.

Writing Career

Throughout her career, Couric has written both nonfiction books and picture books. Brand New Kid and The Blue Ribbon Day are two of her books for kids. The Best Advice I Ever Received: Lessons from Extraordinary Lives, a collection of essays, was published by her in 2011.

Other Work

Moreover, Katie contributed to a wide range of other NBC initiatives, such as several 60 Minutes segments. When she joined ABC News in 2011, she left CBS Evening News.

Since Katie had started her career with the network decades before, this was her second stint with the company. Her reputation as a journalist and anchor was strong when she returned to the news organization this time.

As a special journalist for the channel, she frequently made appearances on programs including Nightline and Good Morning America. She continued to conduct news special interviews while co-hosting The View and co-hosting other programs.

In addition, Katie began hosting a program called The Year With Katie Couric, a program that reviews the previous year’s events in association with People Magazine.

She also began presenting her own talk program, Katie, as part of the ABC contract that she was bound by. Low viewership led to the cancellation of the 2012–2014 season of the show.

After being selected as Yahoo! News’ new anchor in 2013, Katie Couric made her on-air debut in 2014 before becoming a regular.

Katie Couric continued to make appearances on segments of Good Morning America as Yahoo! and ABC’s collaboration grew. Couric departed the news organization in 2017 after Verizon bought Yahoo!

In honor of Matt Lauer’s 20th year as host of the show, Katie Couric returned to host Today for CBS for one week in 2017. Additionally, she began concentrating more on Katie Couric Media, her production company.

The company, which was established in 2015, collaborates with National Geographic to produce a number of documentaries. For the Netflix program Unbelievable, Katie Couric also served as executive producer.

Personal Relationship

Katie Couric and John Paul Monahan were married in 1989. Prior to Monahan’s death from cancer in 1998, the couple had two daughters.

Also passing away from cancer in 2001 was Couric’s sister. Katie Couric has devoted a significant portion of her life to cancer awareness, research, and charitable endeavors.

A financier named John Molner and Katie Couric were married in 2014. The investment bank Brown Brothers Harriman has Molner on its partner list.

Real estate

In 1998, Katie purchased $3.6 million for a 4,000-square-foot condominium on Park Avenue in New York City. She put this house up for sale in 2017 for $8.25 million, and a buyer was eventually found in June 2018 for $7.8 million.

A condo on New York City’s Upper West Side cost Katie and her husband John Molner $12.2 million in March 2016. Additionally, Simon Cowell has a space in the complex.

A 1.6-acre mansion in East Hampton, New York, has been held by Katie since 2006. She and Molner wed here in 2014.

Salary History

Katie Couric made $7 million per year, which is equivalent to about $11 million now, during a significant portion of the mid-to-late 1990s.

he secured the then-largest financial agreement in television news history, a 4.5-year, $60 million contract with an average annual pay of $13 million, in December 2001, just two months after the 9/11 attacks, which proved to be a turning point for the Today Show. After accounting for inflation, that is almost equivalent to $19 million today.

Katie made the decision to switch from NBC to CBS public in April 2006. Her new CBS contract pays her an average annual income of $15 million.

ABC News and Couric agreed to a $40 million deal in 2011.

Katie was personally chosen by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to be Yahoo’s Global Anchor in 2013. 2015 saw an increase in Katie’s Yahoo contract’s yearly salary from its initial $6 million to $10 million. After four years, she ended her affiliation with Yahoo in August 2017.

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