Katie Couric

Katie Couric is a journalist and television anchor.She received the Al Neuharth Award for Excellence in Media on October8,2009. http://www.usd.edu/press/news/news.cfm?nid=1715 @katiecouric' is a web series which features in depth interviews with news makers around the world. http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/katiecouric/main504423.shtml Katie Couric mentioned about the spring time cold in her Notebook. She suggests that orange juice and optimism are the best remedies for a common cold and The expensive pills are not a good solution. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500803_162-20005856-500803.html Al Gore appeared on @katiecouric on November 2, 2009http://www.cbsnews.com/ Hilary Clinton said that the US troops will withdraw from Afghanistan in June, 2011 in an interview with Catie on CBS http://hillary.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/12/03/clinton_wants_afghanistan_to_get_its_act_together_fast

Susan and David Axelrod appeared in a Katie Couric 60 Minutes report on epilepsy aired on Sunday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/23/60minutes/main5414456.shtml?tag=contentMain;cbsCarouselDavid Axelrod is the senior political advisor to President Obama. His eldest daughter Lauren has epilepsy. Lauren had tried 23 different medications and undergone an unsuccessful brain surgery to cure her epilepsy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/23/david-and-susan-axelrod-f_n_330907.html

After graduating with a degree in English and History from the University of Virginia, she began her career in television journalism in the early 1980s as an assistant and editor at ABC News and then at CNN.

She was a Pentagon correspondent for NBC News in 1989 and in 1990 she became a national correspondent for Today.

She joined the shows featured cast in 1991 and remained there until 2006, when she left to host the CBS Evening News.

Despite some rocky ratings and reviews, she continues to host the nightly program as the only female solo-anchor of a network prime time news show. USA Today: Katie Couric may leave CBS News, report says

The award clearly signals hope from the international community - that a new day has dawned in America - and that President Obama's global approach has been welcomed.