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- Katie Couric Katie Couric Info Katie Couric has been co-anchor of Today since April 5, 1991. She joined the program in June 1990 as its first national correspondent and then served as substitute co-anchor from February 1991 until becoming permanent co-anchor. She is also a contributing anchor for Dateline NBC. Since joining NBC News in July 1989 as deputy Pentagon correspondent, Couric has interviewed a panoply of world leaders, national political figures, writers, actors and pop culture icons. Some of her groundbreaking political interviews throughout her career range from former President George Bush Sr. to current President George W. Bush, and every presidential candidate in between. During a tour of the White House in 1993 on its 200th anniversary by First Lady Barbara Bush, Couric conducted a news-making impromptu twenty-minute interview with then President Bush. In her first television interview, Hillary Clinton spoke with Couric in a one-hour primetime special. Couric's interview of First Lady Laura Bush prior to the inauguration in 2001 also made headlines. |
