Katie Couric is profiled in February’s Conde Nast Portfolio, sharing her thoughts on…
• Her future with CBS News: “Like any person, I want to make sure people are happy with the job I’m doing, and there are ongoing conversations about whether we are doing the right kind of show. There was a feeling a while ago that it was a fairly confining format for me, so we’ve had discussions about that. But I think during the election cycle we really broke out in an important way, and our coverage was certainly praised, so I think we — ‘we’ meaning the Evening News folks — are feeling very great about the product. Those stories [speculating about her possibly leaving Evening News] were so twisted and taken out of context. That’s all I want to say about it.”
• Whether her YouTube channel is “a little out there,” as interviewer Sheelah Kolhatkar asks: “Well, sometimes I think I get a little too weird. ‘Cause, I mean, we would wing it 100 percent, pretty much. And so obviously it’s just loopier and more relaxed. We can make jokes. I can say to Hillary [Clinton], ‘Why do you have a nutcracker and Sarah Palin has an action figure?’ Which is probably not something I would ask her if I were doing a network-news special.”
• Which newspapers and magazines she reads: “Anything and everything. I’m kidding, don’t use that. That’s what Sarah Palin said.”
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