Where is katie couric going after cbs

All Sections. About Us. B2B Publishing. Business Visionaries. Hot Property. Times Events. Times Store. Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options. By Stephen Battaglio Staff Writer. Couric with her first husband, attorney Jay Monahan, and the family in Monahan was sick with colon cancer.

Books Television. But now the tables have turned, and she's finding herself in the hot seat as excerpts from her new tell-all, Going There out Oct. Couric is set to appear on Today on Oct. According to a new excerpt published by the New York Pos t, the book also takes a dig at Today in a portion where Couric describes the real reason behind her departure.

Read on to learn about the latest drama to come out of Couric's memoir. In an excerpt published by The New York Post's Page Six , Couric writes that after 15 years on Today, she was feeling "restless" and felt that the occasional ridiculousness of the show was damaging her reputation as a serious journalist. She also criticizes the show for its coverage of more serious topics. Couric got her wish to do more serious news by moving over to CBS to anchor its Evening News program.

She was there for six years, but that doesn't mean she has only glowing things to say about her time there. I'd rather leave the network than retreat to the morning show, which at the time was a cheap imitation of the other two," she adds. In her new tell-all, Couric is also brutally honest about how she feels about ex-colleagues, including Ashleigh Banfield.

Couric, 64, left TODAY after 15 years in to become the first woman to be the solo anchor of a nightly news broadcast on a major network. But she decided to make the transition to CBS after the network offered her an unprecedented opportunity.

Barbara Walters made history as the first female co-anchor of the network evening news with Harry Reasoner on ABC Evening News from , but no woman had ever been a solo anchor of a nightly broadcast on one of the three major networks. I don't think people internally really accepted me, and I thought we were much further along when it came to sexism.

Katie Couric. When asked if she would do it again, however, the longtime journalist was more hesitant. Katie couric. Katie Couric during her last broadcast for Today in View All.